In this learning program, Sue Richmond teaches how to start an IFS group and how to navigate the “storming” phase of group development. You’ll also learn about the important role you play as the facilitator including strategies for what to do when you are hijacked or activated while facilitating a group.
This learning program was held live in Fall 2021. You can now access a recorded version of the program and learn at any time, at your own pace. During each module, you’ll first watch a teaching video with Sue Richmond, including a recorded demo of Sue facilitating a group. Then you’ll learn from IFS founder Dick Schwartz, either by reviewing video demos of his work with clients or by watching as he provides case consultations. Finally, at the end of each module, you’ll watch a recording of Sue’s live event in which she answered learners’ questions.
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. Once you have completed all program modules, and watched all videos in their entirety, you will receive a Certificate that acknowledges you have received 14 IFS Credits for completing this program. Professional continuing education credits are not currently available for this learning 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.
Meet Your Instructors
Sue Richmond
Sue Richmond, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker who started in the health care field in 1989 and has been practicing individual and group psychotherapy since 1997. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Keene State College, and her Master’s of Social Work degree from the University of Connecticut, with a specialization in social group work and casework. Sue works with people living with a wide range of disorders including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and a variety of stress-related disorders resulting from difficult life transitions. She has brought her skills into the classroom teaching as an Adjunct Faculty Member of the Social Work department at the University of Saint Joseph as well as teaching psychiatry residents, nursing students, social work, psychology and chaplain interns about individual and group psychotherapy at the UConn Health Center. She brings to her practice life experience and a deep desire to assist others in psychological and spiritual healing. Her intention for her clients is that they feel uplifted and more closely aligned with their hearts’ true desires as a result of engaging in therapy.
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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