Healing Self: Going Beyond Acceptance to Self-Compassion – Richard C. Schwartz

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Mindfulness has become a popular and useful tool in psychotherapy, but therapists too often encourage clients to adopt a passive-observer stance in therapy, as if it’s enough to just observe thoughts and emotions from a place of separation. This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of how to guide your client move beyond detachment into a more engaged and relational form of self-compassion and self-healing.

1. Integrate the IFS model into your clinical practice and accelerate healing for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and eating disorders.
2. Develop a deep understanding of how neuroscience informs therapeutic decisions in IFS therapy.
3. Explore methods for honestly and transparently handling situations in which clients are emotionally triggered

Attachment Injuries

Internalized Parts of the Self

Parts Can Be Useful

Extreme Beliefs and Emotions

Injuries Like a Virus

Goal of Therapy

Harmony and Integration

Use the One Mind of Integration

Mindfulness Approaches Allow the Noticing and Awareness of What Happens in Emotional Pain

Can be used to move away from pain without resolving it

Parts Work Results in Healing Legacy Burdens

Map of the Parts Territory

Vulnerable Parts that are hurt by Trauma

Protectors

Exiles:  connect, witness, and retrieval: interact with adult part, and move to present time

Managers

Firefighters

Bring Protectors into Realization That They do not Have to Change Now

Can Ask How the Self Feels Toward Different Parts = Parts Detector  

Parts Protect the System

Recognizing These Parts

Parts Triggered in Relationship

Curiosity, Confidence, Compassion, Creativity, Courage, Calm

Connectedness and Clarity

Self Heals and Becomes the Absence of Parts with the Ability to Love Parts Under Stress