Florence Crittenton Annual Conference 2024

Florence Crittenton's 17th annual conference will be held on November 20th,2024 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at The Kay McFarland Japanese Garden and Event Center inside the Topeka Zoo. Early Bird registration is open through September 30th, 2024. This includes registration, CEUs, continental breakfast, lunch, and snacks.

Description:

While the name implies family systems work, IFS is actually focused on an individual’s internal parts. Participants will learn about the IFS approach, explore adaptive behaviors as protective parts, identify wounded parts, and learn how unblending and befriending of parts help clients lead with their core Self.

IFS is a non-pathologizing evidence-based approach to therapy; however, the tool of IFS is not limited to clinical settings or the psychotherapy process. IFS can help professionals in a wide range of fields to better understand and serve others in their professional role. Whether you are working with youth and families, in human resources, educational or religious settings, or serving as a coach or mentor, individuals find these concepts useful in their work.

IFS is also a great tool to better understand your own patterns and personal relationships; allowing you to show up and lead from your Self energy qualities: confidence, calm, compassion, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity and connectedness.

Objective 1: Learn the theory and biology of somatic healing

Objective 2: Understand the role of introspection and implicit memory in somatic experiencing

Objective 3: Explore diagnostic considerations when working from a Somatic Psychology lens

Objective 4: Develop skills and learn exercises for use in clinical practice

6 CE hours (pending BSRB approval for diagnosis and treatment CEUs)

Morning (Sessions One and Two): Understanding Client Behaviors through an Internal Family Systems Lens

• Development and basic assumptions of the IFS model
• Burdens and the good intentions of Protective Parts
• The relationship between IFS Parts and DSM diagnoses
• Videos and case study of IFS in action

Afternoon (Sessions Three and Four): The Parts We Bring to Our Work: Identifying and Unblending from Our Own Parts to Access Self Energy

• The Self of the provider
• Parts detection: How parts may show up in session in you and your client
• Getting started skills
• Identifying Parts: Insight and direct access approaches
• Unblending from Parts and The 6 F’s
• IFS Demo

Conference Agenda:

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:30 Session One (90 min)

10:30-10:50 Break (20 min)

10:50-12:20 Session Two (90 min)

12:20-1:10 Lunch (50 min)

1:10-2:40 Session Three (90 min)

2:40-3:00 Break (20 min)

3:00-4:30 Session Four (90 min)

Feedback Evaluations/Certificates of Completion

Trainer: Dr. Abi Blakeslee

Dr. Abi Blakeslee is the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy. She is senior faculty at the Somatic Experiencing International and legacy faculty for Dr. Peter Levine’s Ergos Institute for Somatic Education. Additionally, she is the Director of Training and Education for the Neuro-consulting Group.

Dr. Blakeslee holds a Ph.D. in Clinical and Somatic Psychology and an MA in Counseling and Depth Psychology. Her dissertation generated original research on the role of implicit memory in healing trauma.

Dr. Blakeslee integrates the study of implicit memory and psychophysiology in clinical research, secondary trauma interventions, and the psychobiological principles of attachment and shock trauma. She treats individuals, couples, children, and families in her clinical practice. Dr. Blakeslee teaches and consults worldwide. She lives in Bozeman, Montana, with her husband and their three growing children.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

635 SW Gage Blvd, 635 Southwest Gage Boulevard, Topeka, United States