INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS)

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Making space also includes making space for all the parts of ourselves to be in the room.  Light and darkness cannot exist without one another. “All parts are welcome,” is the sign you will see outside the IFS practitioner’s door.   

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Developed by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., “parts” works begins with the same attachment-focused, relational approach, and expands into a deep longing to get to know one’s internal world and all the various parts that live there.  The goal here is to develop an internal secure attachment so that your parts can relate to your Self with deep trust. The safety of this internal relationship then becomes a manifestation of safety in the external relational world.  

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In IFS, we do this by getting to know our parts from the seat of what's called "Self," or what's known in other spiritual traditions as our buddha-nature, wisdom mind, christ consciousness, and/or as Loch Kelly teaches awake awareness. This getting to know ourselves and relating to our parts from Self, does not require long hours of inquiry, years of meditation practice, nor a special blessing from a guru. In IFS, you are your own guru. All you need is the willingness to meet yourself. 

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Through curiosity, calm, clarity, compassion, creativity, confidence, courage, and connectedness, or what IFS calls, "the 8 C's," all the elements necessary for sustained transformational change become accessible.