These are virtual trainings, ET time zone (please take into account the time zones where you live and plan for the start of daylight savings time on March 10, 2024).
Class size is limited to 18 and meets for 16 consecutive weeks starting Feb 8, 2024.
Dr. David Stern is an IFS Certified Consultant consulting with IFS therapists from all over the world. Please email me with any questions: [email protected]
48 CE Credits for Social Workers and Counselors is available through NASW authorization # RI-9128 (please check with your local licensing boards to see if this authorization is accepted). There will be a fee of $20 to cover administration costs.
The goals for this course are for you:
- to learn and understand the IFS model and be able to apply it to your own internal system, your patients/clients and one another
- to be able to ask as many questions as you need and know where to go for further information and learning
- to form peer support groups so that your practice can continue to evolve
- to be invigorated in your practice and to see remarkable and permanent changes in many of your clients
- to learn IFS as a peace-making practice for you, your clients, your families, and communities
- to discover and strengthen your relationship with the spiritual and naturally healing core of your being
Each didactic teaching session and consult group is recorded for your use alone. At the end of the ThinkingHeart intensive you will have a solid foundation with the model, and developed the confidence to begin using the model in your practice.
Requirements:
ThinkingHeart Intensive is open for therapists, counsellors, coaches, pastoral counsellors or other mental health professionals; however you must be actively engaged in 1:1 work with clients to be able to practice and implement the teachings.
Payment Details:
The cost for the entire 4 Month course is USD $1900*. After paying the full amount your registration is automatically complete. (if you want to avoid fees, contact me about paying by check).
Participants from developing countries will have a significantly reduced fee and individuals who have financial difficulties will be eligible for reduced fee or payment plan.
A portion of proceeds will be donated to the IFS Foundation
Each 3 hour full group meeting will be recorded and the recordings will be made available only to participants. At the end of the course you will receive a certificate of completion provided you have attended 90% of the live sessions – i.e. you may miss 2 of the 3 hour sessions. Graduates are recommended to refer to themselves as offering IFS-Informed Therapy.
This course will not lead to IFS certification. If you want to become IFS certified, you must take the IFS Institute’s Level 1 Training and complete all requirements.
I would like to say a word about safety. The only way to truly learn IFS is to practice with your own internal system. This means that you will be triggered. This is not a problem. It is an opportunity to develop a loving relationship with all your parts and discover the hidden gifts each of these parts will bring to your life and to your healing practices. I am committed to co-creating a learning community where all of us practice lovingly tending, using the IFS skills that we are learning, all that arises.
*We are not responsible for credit card foreign transaction fees charged by your bank.
"David's extensive skill base, sweet intuition and genuine care all rounded out to provide a wonderful IFS Course experience for me. I now use the method extensively both personally and professionally! I highly recommend diving into the wonderful world of IFS with David Stern - you will give your Self, and all your precious parts, the gift of loving presence."
~Vanya Laporte, Registered Clinical Counsellor, British Columbia, Canada
"David Stern is born to teach. He knows and experiences IFS in mind, body and heart, and conveys the concepts and the techniques from that deep well. He is kind, clear, and connected. I have seen him be part of a group and almost immediately be recognized as a leader, even if he wasn't in that role. People look to him for clarity and ever more expansive views of our inner system and the Self that permeates it."
Mona Barbera, Ph.D. author of Bring Yourself to Love: How Couples Can Turn Disconnection Into Intimacy