The IFS model has facilitated profound change in therapy offices with clients and in personal relationships in homes and across communities. As the need for global healing intensifies, the question of how to transform self-leadership within individuals into collective liberation for our world looms large. In what ways can IFS be used as a tool for liberation?
This learning program was held live in Fall 2024. You can now access a recorded version of the program and learn at any time, at your own pace.
This course will explore the application of IFS as a liberatory psychology and identify ways to leverage its teachings to meet the need of collective liberation. With specific focus on navigating conflict, recognizing and shifting systems of oppressions, and centering social justice, this course will explore the opportunities within the model and its limitations to answer the call for healing that’s needed.
An IFSI Certificate of Completion will be available upon completion of this program. Your completion status will be tracked automatically as you progress through the program modules. Upon completion of this program, you will be able to download a Certificate that acknowledges you have received 14 IFS Credits for completing this program.
Note: Materials and methods included in this course may include interventions or practices that are beyond your scope of practice. As a professional in your given field, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined by applicable law as beyond the boundaries of your practice, and applying your learning in compliance with your professional standards. Â
Meet Your Instructors
Fatimah Finney
Fatimah Finney, LMHC, is a serial goal-setter, lover of new ideas, and imaginative thinker. She is a certified IFS therapist and maintains a private practice serving BIPOC and young adults. As an administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory, Fatimah is a consultant to individuals and organizations looking to build their capacity and skills in centering diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. Fatimah facilitates workshops on intercultural competence, microaggressions and mental health awareness with an aim to make workplaces more inclusive and equitable. Prior to her counseling and consulting practice, Fatimah spent much of her career providing in-home therapy to children, adolescents, and adults and serving in clinical leadership roles. Through her work in community mental health settings, she cultivated a strong commitment to helping therapists increase their cultural competence and clinical fluency with diverse populations.
Dick Schwartz
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, is the creator of Internal Family Systems, a highly effective, evidence-based therapeutic model that de-pathologizes the multi-part personality. His IFS Institute offers training for professionals and the general public. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and has published five books, including No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model. Dick lives with his wife Jeanne near Chicago, close to his three daughters and his growing number of grandchildren.
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