About the Unconference this Saturday
Just a few more days
It’s just a few more days before the last Parts Work Unconference before the summer!
(There will be more after the summer, promise)
Then we will go back to writing some actual content, a soon as we recover.
First of all, we will not repeat everything we already shared, so please check the previous posts and our page about the event.
The bare essentials are to make sure that:
- you have a ticket (it’s free)
- you have Zoom installed, up to date, it works,
- use a computer, not a phone
- you can access the living schedule
- you have checked when it starts in your timezone: 16:00 CET / 10am ET
Now for some news:
As many of use are aware, some recent changes in policies about who can officially train or not in IFS by the IFS Institute started a lot of discussions and soul searching.
We were hoping to offer a space for some of that to happen, and it looks like it will.
JJ Stamatelos, one of the authors of the petition at self-led.org, will join us with a session named One IFS Community, Undivided, offering a quick review of the history of how our community came together to write the petition, what they think the road looks like in the immediate future, and, above all, to create an open forum setting where I [JJ] would invite audience members to speak and share their thoughts.
Additionally, Ash Chudgar will offer a session named Partsworkers of the World, Unite!, as a place to imagine new forms of community with other practitioners, IFS-trained and otherwise, who share our approach to healing and liberation from the inside out.
Additionally (check the previous post for even more), we have some other pre-proposed sessions:
IFS Demo and Q&A - Melissa Galbraith of IFSCA
Melissa will be doing a demo and a general Q and A afterwards.
Heart, Soul, and Spirit-- and the IFS Self - Glenn Strait
Explore the conceptual and therapeutic implications of associating Self with both Heart and Soul. Conceptually, Heart Self carries unique, personal, enduring identity, including gender, and opens to the Abrahamic God, whereas Soul Self reincarnates, carries life purpose, and opens to the Oneness God of the East.
The Mad Tea Party - a functional model for happiness and success - Amanda/Madhatter
Learn to harvest your inner wisdom by increasing acceptance and understanding for your many parts. Discover how all emotions contain Great information that can lead you on your journey to a life worth living and happiness.
IFS Intuitive Drawing - Sanjara
In this session we will explore the potential IFS Intuitive Drawing has for working with our own parts and for working with clients. Please have paper and some colours at hand for the experiential part. (oil pastels are best)
Please keep in mind that the event if participatory and co-created: the actual schedule emerges during the event (not unlike what parts need listening during an IFS session), and anyone could decide last minute not to show up or to change plans (apart from Pau and Alex, since we committed to making this happen).
If you want to know more
We have an FAQ, and you can find out more about the event on our website or, just email us at hello@ifs-collective.com.
THE USUAL DISCLAIMERS
This is NOT an official IFS-Institute training, or a setting for receiving therapeutic work.
A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS
We do not organize the Unconference to make money, and yet some of our parts like being able to pay for bills and food. We do that by offering IFS therapy and IFS coaching sessions. (See here if you are curious about the difference; we will write a longer post about it someday). So if you feel called, or know someone that wants to dip into this world, feel free to explore booking a session with one of us.