About this Event
With Adrienne Glasser
Workshop April 24th 11pm-2pm
@AWAKEN Haven Echo Park
The Embodied Fire That Protects: An AWAKEN IFS Workshop
Anger is not the problem. The burden of being told to Exile it is.
We were taught to fear it, suppress it, apologize for it. But anger carries precise intelligence and it arises when a boundary is crossed, dignity dishonored, care withdrawn.
It says: something here is not right. The wisdom of anger is the discernment of what matters most to us.
Somatic embodiment sorts signal from noise:
Discernment is felt, not analyzed. Wisdom-anger has five qualities:
- Sharpness that points at something specific to communicate a message
- A felt "no" the body knows before the mind
- Protectiveness oriented toward something it loves
- Grief that is close beneath the surface
- When truly heard and expressed it softens and transforms into the advocate needed in the world
IFS framework
In IFS, anger lives in protector parts that are loyal, overworked, and carrying rage that was never allowed to be expressed, unmetabolized. The path is finding the part in the body → get curious → appreciate it → ask what it needs. When truly witnessed by Self-Awareness, the protector reveals what it's been guarding all along.
SomaIFS constellations
SomaIFS constellations is where the energetic field becomes the teacher. It unites somatic tracking, authentic movement, IFS parts work, and systemic constellation practice. Anger is given space in the room embodied by participants playing the role of parts, so what's been frozen in the body for years can finally complete its interrupted expression and purpose. The anger turns toward what it loves, names what it protects, and receives the acknowledgment it has needed. In that turning, it becomes advocacy. Discernment. Fire in service of life.
For helping professionals + teaching artists
We cannot take a client further than we've been willing to go. Here is the embodied learning, community & support needed to deepen your experience.
SomaIFS constellation work offers practitioners:
- Tools for tracking somatic countertransference
- Language for anger as protective intelligence and intuition, not pathology
- Body-based work without performative catharsis or spiritual bypassing
- Constellation methods that externalize & unblend merged parts
- A communal container for connection to others and to embodied spirituality
Join the AWAKEN IFS community workshop as we explore and learn the wisdom of anger.
MONTHLY AWAKEN IFS Support & Learn Group
Each month has a different topic to expand your embodied IFS training, personal and professional practice. Participants will be guided through an experiential, somatic IFS meditation, with optional prompts for authentic movement & expression to get to know embodied parts and Self-awareness states.
Participants will share their experiences and support eachother in their IFS practice and how to integrate these skills into their every day lives for more resiliancy, joy and contentment. Optional role-play, drawing and writing is availible for explorarion.
This experiential journey through Expressive IFS techniques will allow participants to:
-Learn IFS basics such as unblending, polarizations, protective parts, exiles, unburdenings, legacy burdens, UBs and Guides from somatic, embodied direct experience.
and attend to their own protective parts that collapse, freeze, fight or fawn related to oppression and privilege
-Experience and get to know the somatic qualities of their Self and Self-Awareness States
- Learn how to utilize Expressive IFS for their own freedom and liberation as well as the clients they serve with: Authentic Movement, Psychodramatic Techniques, Somatic Constellations, and View of Buddhist Self-Awareness States
*Participants must have a basic, 101 understanding of IFS to attend.
*This meeting is donation-based to help accessibility. This meeting is open also practices being an affirming space for LGBTQ+, BIPOIC, allies and for those whom do not align with organizations connected to hate & harm.
Open group. Come connect, learn and play.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
To Be Announced, Madasalin Street, Quezon City, Philippines
USD 55.20 to USD 300.00
