The Arc of Healing Trauma

Module 1

Trauma Informed Emotional Health: Incorporating Internal Family Systems (IFS) Concepts into Trauma Treatment

It's important to learn how to safely identify someone who has gone through an overwhelming life experience. To help guide them through their healing journey, we monitor the parts within them, and within ourselves, that can get activated. Join Frank Anderson to discover the key components to releasing trauma and how to safely navigate being with vulnerability when somebody has been relationally violated. This workshop will include didactic lecture, meditations, and experiential exercises.

Session 1: Working with Protective Parts

This session will help you understand and begin to build a foundation for healing relational trauma. We will focus on the parts of self that serve a protective role.

Here we will explore what IFS calls working with protective parts and show how each traumatic adaptation has a positive intention. We will demonstrate how to embrace and embody a compassionate stance toward all distressing or overwhelming symptoms. You will also become familiar with one of your protective parts.

Session 2: Discovering Self Energy

Here we will focus on the various dimensions of Self energy and its inherent healing capacity.

In this module we will define and experientially get to know the inherent wisdom and healing capacity of what IFS calls Self Energy. We will discuss the difference ways to be with clients and learn how to help your own parts relax and learn how to identify Self energy within your clients.

Session 3: Releasing Painful Experiences

In this session, we explore the key components necessary to let go of overwhelming life experiences.

Healing from trauma can be a complicated process for many survivors. It can take months to years to fully recover from relational violations. We will discuss the corrective emotional experience, how to support the release of trauma and when it makes sense to treat and when it makes sense to transfer.