Implicit IFS

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In 15+ years of IFS practice, teaching & consulting...

I have arrived at the understanding that people are nearly always blended with parts. When therapists say, “I’m not able to do IFS with this client,” what they really mean is, “I’m not able to do InSight with this client.” InSight, or internal communication, is a special circumstance requiring sustained Self-presence even when parts are activated. Even Explicit Direct Access requires a modicum of Self-presence because, to do it, the client must understand and agree that they are blended with a part. There are many times when clients have insufficient access to Self to engage in InSight or Explicit Direct Access and are blended with parts that don’t know they are parts. More often than not, in my experience, this is the case. It can be for short periods of time during specific sessions, or for long stretches of many sessions. 

How are we to do IFS then? I have spent many years refining my approach to IFS to be Self-led and effective under these very common conditions. Direct Access is better understood as a condition, rather than something you do. It is any time the therapist is communicating directly with a client’s blended part. Since people are blended more often than not, it is incumbent upon therapists to presume this ‘condition’ until there is proof to the contrary (Self-presence). Thus, Implicit Direct Access is the ideal default approach to IFS, because, realistically, the vast majority of time in IFS therapy will be spent in Implicit Direct Access. Becoming knowledgeable and skilled in Direct Access, especially Implicit Direct Access, is the most practical way to become proficient in clinical application of the IFS model. It is the heavy lifting required to prepare the foundation for InSight, which can then proceed more easily and fluidly.

In this workshop I share these various perspectives and tools to help you master Implicit Direct Access so that you can feel confident working with your client’s blended parts:

·       Informed Curiosity – getting the most out of the 6 F’s

·       The Unblend Agenda – It’s Befriending, not Unblending

·       Protector Positive Intentions – A solution and a problem

·       Blended for Life – “This is who I am.”

·       Polarization – Winner/Loser, No-brainer

·       Flipping the Part – Parts have Selves

You will learn that Direct Access is not just ‘regular talk therapy’ until you can do IFS, nor is it a less productive alternative to InSight. You may even realize that leaning into Direct Access can sometimes, paradoxically, be more powerful than any other IFS method you know.

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