Trusting Self:
The Heart of the Spiritual Path in Internal Family Systems
A Live Dialogue on Tuesday, November 17
With Internal Family Systems founder Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, & Tami Simon
With Internal Family Systems founder
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, & Tami Simon
Join us LIVE on Tuesday, November 17 at 11 am ET | 8 am PT
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Exploring the Spiritual Dimension of Internal Family Systems
Since Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, created Internal Family Systems (IFS) decades ago, this model has helped countless people care for their inner parts and restore leadership to Self, the core consciousness that brings us calm, curiosity, compassion, and many other gifts.
What you may not know is that, since its beginnings, IFS therapists and their clients have repeatedly experienced astonishing spiritual phenomena during therapy sessions.
As people begin exploring the spiritual side of IFS, one topic comes up again and again: How do I know what’s speaking to me? Is it a guide, an angel, a part of me, or Self?
In this free live conversation, Dr. Schwartz and Tami Simon explore how cultivating trust in Self, with a capital S, becomes the ground for trusting the guidance that comes to us, and for trusting life itself.
Together, you’ll join us to explore:
- How the spiritual dimensions of IFS emerged – The clinical observations that Dick and his colleagues could not ignore.
- The Self as more than just a psychological concept – Its unexpected healing effects and how it connects us to what spiritual traditions call Greater Consciousness, Divine intelligence, or God.
- How to recognize Self: the calm, curiosity, and compassion that mark it, and how it differs from a part that only sounds wise
- How guides, angelic presences, and ancestor spirits differ from parts, and what Dr. Schwartz, other IFS therapists, and their clients have learned over years of working with IFS
- What to do when a skeptical part says you’re imagining it, including how Dick worked with his own doubts as a scientist
- How to meditate in a way that embraces our parts instead of pushing them away, so Self can come forward more easily
- Plus, a short live practice to check in with your parts and make space for Self, one you can return to anytime
Meet Your Guides
Richard C. Schwartz PhD
Dick Schwartz is the creator of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a highly effective therapeutic model with a growing evidence base that de-pathologizes the multi-part personality. His IFS Institute, founded over 24 years ago, offers training for professionals and the wider public. He is a Teaching Associate in Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate, and has authored or co-authored many books, including No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model.
Tami Simon
Tami Simon founded Sounds True in 1985 with a clear mission: to disseminate spiritual wisdom. Since starting out as a project with one woman and her tape recorder, we have grown into a multimedia publishing company featuring hundreds of leading teachers and visionaries of our time, and an ever-expanding family of beloved customers from across the world.
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