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What: Internal Family Systems for Emotional WellnessWhen: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 7 pm and monthly third Tuesdays. 90 minutes
Where: 70 E Howard Ave Eugene, OR 97404
Reservations: [email protected] Mike Meyer, LCSW, CADC I, QMHP. $15-25 recommended, any amount welcome. Attendance is capped at 15.
Co-facilitated by JILL Leffingwell LCSW
This community workshop starts with a brief 20 minute overview of Internal Family Systems. This includes its interconnectedness to Voice Dialogue, addiction theory, relationships, and other internally-based emotional wellness resiliency practices. 10 minutes will be set up to go over interactive guidelines, including self-care, boundaries, mindfulness, and more ways to share effectively and safely. The remaining hour will be IFS exercises, role-play (including as “parts”), discussion, and more educational principles.
Facilitator Mike Meyer brings over 20 years of counseling experience and group facilitation to this new project. Internal Family Systems has been shown to be a very effective best practice in mental health counseling and emotional wellness. This will be a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere based in exploration and positive, non-pathologizing growth. Reviewing community resources and a closing circle will finish each meeting.
IFS is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.
IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.
But IFS is much more than a non-pathologizing evidence-based psychotherapy to be used in a clinical setting. It is also a way of understanding personal and intimate relationships and stepping into life with the 8 Cs: confidence, calm, compassion, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity, and connectedness. Professionals from many different backgrounds such as, but not limited to, legal mediation, school administration, life coaches, and religious leaders may utilize IFS to inform and guide their work. Our growing list of educational programs aims to serve not only therapists but the wider public and other professions.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
70 East Howard Ave Eugene, OR, 70 E Howard Ave, Eugene, OR 97404-2616, United States,Eugene, Oregon