Working with Shame through Internal Family Systems (includes Demo)

with Martha Sweezy, PhD

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What you'll learn

  • Experience a demonstration of IFS being used to guide a client through a compassionate process of addressing and healing shame (begins at: 16:34)
  • Understand the key principles of the IFS model, and how these operate in the process of healing shame in particular
  • Appreciate the significance of perceiving shame as an active process, encompassing both internal experiences and interpersonal dynamics — and how compassion and shame are mutually exclusive

About the speakers

Martha Sweezy, PhD

Martha Sweezy, PhD is an Assistant Professor, part-time, at Harvard Medical School and a program and research consultant, and supervisor, at the Cambridge Health Alliance. Her latest book, Internal Family Systems Therapy for Shame and Guilt explores shame and guilt from the perspective of Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS). She is also the author or co-author of several journal articles on IFS; a co-editor and co-author of two chapter books on IFS; and a co-author of five other books on IFS.

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  • Same here. It was promised to be up for 48 ours ‘after’ the video is played. Bu the videos are already removed. Could you make them available?

  • Sorry I was not able to join in and wished that the all the videos were available for at least a week rather than 48 hours. Please reconsider.

  • Thanks for this clear presentation and especially for the demonstration which illustrated the path.

  • I could not stop crying in between while watching the demo session. It felt as if the kindness with which Martha was talking to the client and her parts were somehow directed towards me and as if i was the client. My hurt parts couldn’t stop aching. They were holding on to me and me to hug them while they cry. And my protective parts said they are so tired that they want to cry too. I loved how this video showed how IFS works. I would surely want to get trained in this approach someday. Thank you for this conference it has been a pleasure to be a part of it.

  • Very astute, compassionate and insightful guidance in a complex process. Thank you!!

  • Incredible to watch. Feel so honoured to have been invited to witness how accepting, welcoming, gently challenging and healing can therapy be.

  • Such a beautiful, compassionate, insightful session that was was also heart opening to witness. Thank you.

  • Wow, this is my first exposure to really understanding IFS and what an incredibly powerful approach, so beautifully held and guided by Martha. I can see how what a potent source of working to release shame this can provide. I found myself thinking I’d love to have been the client and have a the blessing of working with Martha.

  • Wise, sensitive, compassionate, tender and powerful work. Thank you so much for your extraordinary insights and understandings. And for the courage and beautifully authentic brave client. All very illuminating.

  • Wow what a phenomenal training and resource. Thank you so much for putting this together. Also thanks to all the people that were brave enough to do the demonstrations it was so powerful to be able to witness these modalities in real time.

  • Amazing session, very glad I’ve watched this. Martha is so gentle and validating. This might actually work for me and I will definitely be looking into IFS further.

  • A very good intro and therapy demo to a form of parts which are sub-personalities (protective, fearful, critical) plus core personalities: me/I, injured and compassionate. Good demo of childhood injury. Where in your body is this part? How does the I feel towards that part? Here to help and what it needs. Ask that part …. What causes it to be afraid? What can a protective part do to help the damaged child? Old habits can change. Will these parts become a whole? What about interjects (resentment [an abscess])?

  • Thank you Martha for this wonderful experience. Seeing compassionate therapy in action is beautiful and heals on many levels, radiating outwards to us all in this journey too. Thank you.

  • Thank you for this incredible information. I think about my inner child talking to me, slowly opening the shut doors of 70+ years. I cried a little while listening , feeling the same. I have noticed that she if more confident that I’m listening and assuring her I care and we’re safe now. Thank you for your gentle directions and care.

  • I have tried to buy the training package but your site wont allow me access to it. Can you help me access the upgrade to the training package.

    • Hi Dagmar! So sorry to hear about the trouble. Will you share your email here so that we can reach out to you directly? You can also email us at [email protected].

      Thank you for your patience!

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