Join Lead Trainer, Fran Booth for this retreat style experiential workshop. She will weave together guided somatic meditations, embodiment exercises, didactic teaching, demonstrations, and dyad practice to cultivate the essential skills needed to track, trust, and integrate the body’s vital information.
Participants Will:
1. Integrate somatic information within the IFS protocol with increased knowledge and skill.
2. Define and apply the principles of cultural humility while recognizing and addressing personal somatic cultural bias
3. Identify common reasons clients may have limited somatic awareness and employ additional strategies to support them with compassion and attunement.
4. Hold space for somatic experiences with increased capacity.
5. Allow embodiment of protectors and exiles to deepen understanding parts.
6. Incorporate client gestures, movements, and postures as meaningful expressions of parts.
7. Integrate somatic information to enhance attunement, pace interventions, and stay engaged during moments of reduced verbal processing to deepen somatically informed IFS explorations.
8. Connect with greater ease to their unique energetic Self-energy signature.
Sample Agenda (subject to change):
Thursday
3-5pm arrive, settle
6:00 pm dinner
7 :00 pm- 8:30 pm Opening Circle
Friday
7-7:50 am Gentle Movement (optional)
8 am Breakfast
9:15 -11:45 am Session.
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Afternoon break
3:00 – 5:30 pm Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:15-8:15 pm Evening circle. Process and Integration
Saturday
7-7:50am Gentle Movement (optional)
8 – 9am Breakfast
9:15- 11:30 am session
11: 30 Begin community silence
12:00 Lunch in silence, mindful eating
1:00 Afternoon break
3– 5:30 pm session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:15-8:15 pm evening circle. Process and Integration
Sunday
7-8 am Prepare for closing circle, journal, pack
8:00 breakfast
9:15 closing circle until 11:00
11:00 check out
12 noon Lunch
Anyone who is IFS-informed is welcome to attend. Continuing Education credits are pending from IFSI. This workshop has been approved in the past.
Fran Booth, LICSW is an IFS Solo Lead trainer with the IFS Institute, therapist, consultant, and author. A social worker for over 45 years, her clinical practice focuses on adult survivors of childhood trauma and neglect, somatic concerns, anxiety, and depression. Grounded in IFS, Fran integrates trauma-informed somatic practices and spiritual traditions into her teaching and practice. Her chapter, IFS Consultation: Fostering the Self-Led Therapist can be found in Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation. Additionally, Fran loves dancing, swimming, laughing, dining, reading, traveling, enjoying the arts, playing with grandchildren, and wind on her face.