IFS for Therapists #6: Working with Protectors
Focusing on the proactive and reactive aspects of the personality's protective system ("Managers" and "Firefighters") this video offers a variety of ways to work with them. The difference between a part's concern and its opinion is differentiated and the often central role of the "figuring it out" part is identified along with suggestions about how to invite it to work in greater alliance with the Self. This video ends with a clip featuring the poignant voice of a young exile.
The Drive for Authenticity: Understanding Inner Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
Viewing gender and sexual orientation through an IFS lens to understand their diversity. Shame is acknowledged as being internalised from broader (and trusted) systems rooted in heterosexist and cisgendered assumptions. Self-compassion towards parts holding shame can help heal the system.
IFS Grief and Loss Pt. 1
This video describes how the IFS Model applies to Grief, Loss and Transitions
Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy
From the back cover: "Here Richard Schwartz and other master IFS clinicians illustrate how they work with a wide variety of problems: racism, perpetrator parts, trauma, addiction, eating disorders, parenting, and grief. The authors also show creative ways of putting into practice basic IFS techniques that help parts to unblend and to unburden both personal and legacy burdens." My Chapter is entitled "Self-led Grieving: Transitions, Loss and Death"