2019 IFS Conference Package | IFS without Borders

2019 IFS Conference Package | IFS without Borders

This course offers 9.5 CE credits in total.

IFS as a Potential Physical Illness Treatment: Healing the Sick Parts Lou Lukas, MD, Lissa Rankin, MD, and Richard Schwartz, PhD – up to 6 CE Credits

First Plenary: 1.75 CE Credits maximum

Second Plenary: 1.75 CE Credits maximum

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IFS as a Potential Physical Illness Treatment: Healing the Sick Parts Lou Lukas, MD, Richard Schwartz, PhD, and Lissa Rankin, MD

We will examine both the theory and the practice around IFS in this session because it has been shown to be successful with medical syndromes (Shaddick et al., 2013). IFS can assist parts in realizing they don’t have to do that because it is obvious that they can impact our bodies if they have no other way to contact us. The author of the New York Times bestseller Mind Over Medicine, Lissa Rankin, MD, spent seven years conducting research for her seventh book, Sacred Medicine. She started investigating therapies that tapped into our minds’ intrinsic capacity for self-repair as well as how shifting trapped life force through the body may potentially cure sickness after discovering that Western medicine not only did not improve her own ailment but made it worse. She learned about IFS four years ago and views it as a paradigm-shifting approach to comprehending and integrating several therapeutic modalities, such as traditional medicine, psychology, spirituality, energy healing, and shamanic. As an active faculty member for hundreds of medical students and residents, Dr. Lukas treats patients with life-threatening illnesses as an Associate Professor of Family Medicine. She applies IFS ideas to her work and is currently considering how to bring IFS to medical students at various levels of their academic and professional careers.

In addition to experiential activities to teach you to learn to listen to the parts of your body that are harming it and to those who know how to repair it, this session will examine the integration of IFS and other healing techniques and expand your access to healing Self energy.

Plenary No. 1

Big News is Coming! Please welcome Jon Schwartz, MEd, Executive Director of The Center for Self Leadership!

Warm-Up in the Morning Everett Company

An IFS Update on the Foundation for Self Leadership

Board of Self Leadership Foundation

China’s Inner Peace Coach (IPC) Initiative: Broadly Disseminating IFS to the General Public Joy X. Y. Huang, MA, and Hailan X. X. Guo, MD, PhD, the founders of Hailan Family Well-being
IFS has traditionally been taught to and used by mental health practitioners in a 1:1 style in the West.
However, IFS’s potential transcends national boundaries. An Inner Peace Coach (IPC) effort based on IFS was launched in China by Hailan Family Well-being with support from the Center of Self Leadership (CSL). This initiative intends to widely introduce IFS to the general population. Both a 130-person retreat on working with exiles and a 320-person Introduction to IFS program given by Dick Schwartz and completed successfully in China in 2017 and 2018. Paul and Dick will both talk about their experiences introducing IFS to China. Dr. Hailan Guo, the organization’s creator, is pleased to be here from China. Through the use of her integrated 865 Self-coaching approach, she will reveal the key to successfully delivering IFS to the general population on a large scale.

Plenary No. 2

Opening Statements
Executive Director of The Center for Self Leadership, Jon Schwartz, PhD

#IFSwithoutBorders
Caitlin Capistran, DPT, Sarah Houy, MA, LPC, RYT, BCN, and Deran Young, LICSW
We’re pleased to welcome three creative practitioners who are extending the scope of IFS beyond the Model’s conventional application as its use grows and changes. To expand IFS, Deran, Caitlin, and Sarah are all tearing down geographical barriers. You are welcome to attend this plenary session to learn how these IFS innovators are utilizing IFS in novel ways and to reflect on how you are enhancing the usage of IFS in your own neighborhood.
Diversity and IFS Deran has dedicated his life to ensuring that mental health and emotional wellbeing are important to underrepresented populations as the creator of Black Therapists Rock. She will discuss how she uses IFS to encourage a love of variety and a commitment to togetherness during this session. Deran will also discuss how she has personally opened up more room in her heart for communal and collective healing by removing the painful limits that were formerly essential.

IFS and the Body: In order to blur the line between the body and mind, Dr. Caitlin Capistran is utilizing IFS inside the body. She will discuss how IFS may be utilized to change our physiology and improve physical wellness as well as what our bodies can disclose about our parts. The immediate effects that components may have on our physiology, how our bodies mirror our internal systems, and how to utilize IFS to enhance your clients’ physical health are all topics that Caitlin will cover.
IFS & Technology: Sarah is committed to eradicating barriers by fusing technology and mental health. She will discuss personal experiences and how she envisions combining IFS and technology to increase and improve IFS’s potential for healing.

The use of ketamine in IFS therapy
Robert M. Grant, M.D., M.P.H.
Ketamine is a psychedelic drug for the treatment of depression that is authorized by the FDA and is lawful. The benefits of one-time ketamine treatments are extended when they are combined with psychotherapy. IFS embraces the diversity of the mind, continuously seeks full consent, enables the processing of traumatic memories, and makes use of the ketamine-induced neuroplasticity in shifting neural networks involved in mood, memory, and self-perception. These factors make IFS a good fit for use with psychedelic therapies. Dr. Grant has over two years of clinical experience combining ketamine aided psychotherapy with IFS; the procedure and results will be discussed.