IFS and Parenting: Help Kids Transition Forward to a Calm Centered Place – Frank Anderson

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Parents and kids alike are in the midst of experiencing a “double trauma.”

For many, the overwhelming nature of the pandemic inevitably triggers or activates past traumatic experiences.

Join Frank Anderson, MD, international IFS presenter and author, to learn how Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy can help parents help their children safely and seamlessly deal with their fears, uncertainty and anger in the present, while also helping them integrate back into the “new normal” as we transition back into our lives.

1. Demonstrate how parents can effectively communicate with their children from a calm, centered place.
2. Demonstrate how parents can facilitate children’s self-awareness, confidence, and control of challenging circumstances.
3. Create ways to encourage parents toward compassion and empathy in challenging moments instead of guilt and shame.

What IFS Brings to Parenting

• Incorporating parts language in the Family
• Positive intentions of all parts

When Parents Are Not at Their Best

• Reactive moments
• The different triggering scenario’s
• When parents overidentify with their children

Correct It, Don’t Perpetuate It

• Direct access parenting
• Getting to the root of the reactivity
• Connecting with empathy

Improving the Co-Parenting Experience

• When parents aren’t aligned
• Creating a “Triggering Agreement”   
• Reactive to Responsive