Internal Family Systems as an Agent of Spiritual and Social Change

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Duration: 1h 0m 55s

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In this talk, the founder of the Internal Family Systems model (IFS),  Richard Schwartz, speaks on how we can be in greater dialogue with each other across any social divide by being more in tune with the different parts of ourselves. We all have multiple personalities that have precious and valuable resources and talents to teach us. Rick explains more here.

Dr. Richard Schwartz began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic, at the University of Illinois and at Northwestern University. Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed the Internal Family Systems model (IFS) in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. In 2000, he founded the Center for Self Leadership, which offers three levels of trainings and workshops in IFS for professionals and the general public, both in this country and abroad.  A featured speaker for national professional organizations, Dr. Schwartz has published five books and over fifty articles about IFS.

Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical  School.  An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is the founder of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment  (TIST) and an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation. Dr. Fisher is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment.