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INTRODUCTION TO INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY
Online experiential training workshop – Introduction to Parts work/IFS
Description
Introduction to Internal Family Systems Therapy. A deeply respectful and transformational way of working with the full range of experiences of distress and trauma. IFS therapy has been cited as ”the treatment method that all clinicians should know to treat clients effectively” by Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score. Delivered by Zandra Banford a L3, Approved IFS Clinical Consultant & IFS Certified Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years experience with complex trauma. A training workshop with the following learning objectives:
1. Understanding parts and introducing parts work with clients
2. Initiating a connection and dialogue with parts of the self
3. Using creative techniques to understand, externalise & connect with parts of the self
4. Fostering a compassionate and loving connection with parts
5. Considering how change and transformation occurs
Our comprehensive Internal Family Systems (IFS) Training Programme provides therapists with a deep and practical understanding of this transformative therapeutic model.
IFS offers a highly compassionate framework for helping clients understand their inner and outer experiences and heal emotional wounds. Through this training, participants learn how to identify and work with protective parts, ones that hold vulnerability, legacy and cultural burdens.
Designed for therapists, psychologists and mental health professionals, the programme blends theory with experiential learning and supervised practice to build real clinical confidence. Participants will explore core IFS concepts, practice effective techniques for working with clients’ parts, and develop skills to safely navigate complex emotional landscapes. By the end of the training, practitioners will be equipped to integrate IFS into their practice or use it in its purest form, supporting clients in developing deeper self-awareness, healing past traumas, and creating lasting psychological wellbeing.
Three modules over 11 days.
Delivered by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Approved IFS Clinical Consultant with over 25 years experience working with complex trauma, Supported by other approved consultants and certified IFS therapists.
EXPANDING YOUR PRACTICE BEYOND 1:1 – OFFERING GROUPS AND CIRCLES
At the core of many of us is a longing for greater connection and belonging. Ideologies of separation, independence and individuality can not only be perpetuated by our broader culture but also by many traditional therapy settings.
If you feel drawn to providing spaces for group therapy work within your private or nhs practice this is a 4 week course to support you.
We will be walking through the practicalities of group provision, marketing, considering starting out, blocks and barriers. Considering the “what” of your group provision, the different types of groups available to you to offer, crystallising your ideas and the development of them into action.
We will be considering the “how” of group work, the differing boundaries involved in working with groups. The structure of a group will be considered with specific attention to practices and exercises at the beginning, middle and end of each individual group and full group programme. We will move to specific practices for how you support and foster connection, belonging and achieve your aims with any therapy modality within an online or in person group space.
Interweaved throughout our training will be dedicated spaces and exercises to connect with what may hold us back from offering group work and how doing so often provides us with impactful, nourishing and even healing experiences.
We will have time dedicated to group endings and consolidation of the growth and development for both our attendees and ourselves.
This 4 week training is designed to support and guide you into offering group or circle spaces (both online and in person) for therapy and growth in your practices. We are not focusing on any particular modality for your group practice and you do not have to have a fully formed idea of what you’d like to provide in your practice. Space will be provided for us to co-create ideas, as well as move ideas into action.
Led by Zandra Bamford, who brings over 20 years experience of providing and holding groups in inpatient services, crisis services, community mental health teams and private practice for both receivers and providers of services within a range of psychological modalities.
I am hugely passionate about providing spaces for group therapy and connection, authenticity and healing and feel called to support other psychologists and therapists who are drawn to provide this too. So many people are wanting IFS therapy in particular at present, being able to offer this in a group makes it more accessible and cost effective for the client.
You are so welcome to join us no matter where you are in your own planning with group work provision.
An experiential and therapeutic day exploring and being with your grief and loss from a parts perspective.
We will be considering grief as much broader than (but including) loss of a loved one, also considering the grief of our expectations not being met, grief held in our systems from our ancestors, grief of events in the world, grief about the harm we have caused others in our lives and the grief that our parts hold as our life changes as we and our families age. In addition to the grief held by our parts as we heal and consider all that was and all that wasn’t.
You will be guided to explore your own gates of grief and parts that may prevent your own grieving.
Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Practices and Parts: Bringing the body into the therapy room
A training workshop covering the foundations of polyvagal theory and a number of body based exercises for different states to bring the vagus nerve online for yourselves and your clients. Integrating Polyvagal theory and somatic work into any therapy modality and with particular consideration of working with parts of the self.
Delivered by Dr Zandra Bamford who draws on over 20 years experience working with complex trauma.
Specific learning objectives:
1. Understand the basic principles of Polyvagal Theory, its relevance to psychological therapies and begin to see trauma through a polyvagal lens.
2. Explain the 3 primary evolutionary polyvagal responses and identify them in the self and others
3. Understand the importance of neuroception and using your own ANS to help that of others
4. Be able to use at least 3 body based techniques to establish ventral vagus connection with and for yourselves and your clients
5. Integrating Polyvagal theory and somatic work into working with parts of the self.
Two days online training for people who are very familiar with IFS, using the model in your practice and would like to consolidate learning and deepen into the model when working with ‘complexity’.
Particularly focusing on extreme protectors, strong critics, complex trauma, shame, neglect and experiences such as unusual beliefs and hearing voices.
Transforming Trauma in Community – Therapeutic Group
This online Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy group to help participants explore and understand the different parts of themselves that have developed in response to difficult life experiences.
Shorter than our previous programme and in a smaller group, also in a supportive and confidential environment, members are guided to gently recognise protective parts, wounded parts, and the core Self that exists beneath them. This programme goes a little deeper in a smaller space.
The group setting allows participants to witness their own inner experiences while learning from others who may share similar struggles, creating a powerful sense of connection, validation, and safety.
Through guided exercises, reflective discussion, and compassionate facilitation, participants learn practical ways to build a healthier relationship with their inner world. The group focuses on increasing self-awareness, reducing shame, and healing trauma. Over time, members develop greater self-compassion, emotional regulation, and resilience, supporting meaningful healing and lasting personal growth.
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