IFS Workshop: Beyond Experiential - June 2025 - Perth, WA

IFS WORKSHOP

Beyond Experiential

A 3-day in-person IFS Workshop for mental health professionals, who’ve completed the advanced workshop, delving into beyond IFS topics: Working with addictive processes, understanding and releasing Unattached Burdens, and further exploring legacy, ancestors, past lives, and guides. Includes guided meditations, live IFS demonstrations, and practice groups.

*You must be a Mental Health Professional, in clinical supervision and have completed the IFS Workshop: Experiential Introduction and IFS Workshop: Advanced Experiential.

What is the IFS Workshop: Beyond Experiential?

This intimate, 3-day advanced IFS professional development workshop (max. 12 participants) is designed for clinicians, including counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, mental health professionals, and students.

Building on foundational and advanced skills from the Introductory and advanced IFS Workshops, this workshop deepens understanding and practice of IFS therapy and beyond! Participants will review the healing steps of the IFS model and deepen their understanding of working with polarisation, we will explore working with addictive processes and Unattached Burdens and how to release them, and we will explore working with legacy, ancestors, past lives, and guides. The workshop includes live demonstrations, guided meditations, Q&A sessions, and hands-on practice to enhance skills and embodied knowledge.

Prerequisite: Completion of Introductory and Advanced IFS Workshops & supervised mental health professional.

What are the details of this workshop?

Day 1 - Working with addictive processes:9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Day 2 - Understanding and releasing Unattached Burdens:9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Day 3 - Legacy, Ancestors, Past Lives, and Guides:9:00 am to 4:30 pm

*doors open from 9 am, we will start at
9:15 sharp

Cost: $1200 fee per person ($1100 course fee, $100 non-refundable admin fee) + 10% GST + Humanitix Booking Fee

Refund: The workshop fee is refundable up to 30 days before the start of the workshop.

Maximum group size: 12 participants.

Does not include meals: There will be a 15-minute tea break and a 30-minute lunch break each day. A selection of teas, coffees, water, and biscuits will be provided. Please bring your own lunch each day.

Venue: To be confirmed close to the date of each advanced workshop, it will be within 50 km of Perth CBD.

What does this Beyond Workshop Include?

Interactive lectures on:

Connecting with Exiles and releasing burdens

• Relational Trauma through an IFS lens
• Healing steps of the model
• Releasing burdens
• Personal burdens & Legacy Burdens
• Healing intelligence, Self, Self Like Parts and Guides 

Understanding Internal System Dynamics

• Hirarchey
• Polarisation
• Alliances
• Internal System dynamics
• Therapist-client polarisations

Working with Addictive Processes

• The work of Cece Sykes
• Manager - Firefighter polarities
• Compassionate understanding of addiction
• Unblending from therapist managers
• Working with addictive processes

Understanding and releasing Unattached Burdens

• The work of Bob Falconer
• Understanding UBs
• Discernment
• Releasing UBs

Legacy, Ancestors, Past Lives, and Guides

• Legacy Gifts
• Ancestors
• Legacy unburdening
• Accessing Guides
• Other Realms
• Past Lives
• The others within us

*Content may be different on the day!

Experiential Components:

Daily IFS meditations

Hearing the theory is one thing. Experiencing it is another.
Throughout the two days, several IFS meditations will give you a direct experience of some of the topics covered in the lectures.

Three live IFS demonstrations

Oliver will demonstrate the IFS process with a volunteer from the
workshop participants once a day. The demonstrations will last 60 - 90 minutes, followed by a debrief with the volunteer and a Q and A.

Practicing IFS Psychotherapy

Participants will be given the time and space to practice the IFS 6
F’s process of working with protective parts, twice during the workshop. This will be a real-play with each participant pairing up with another participant and taking on the role of client and therapist. If there is an uneven number of participants, one group will have three participants and rotate through the roles of client, therapist, and observer. 

What are participants saying about past Workshops?

“I found the IFS Advanced Experiential Workshop with Oliver to be extremely beneficial on both a professional and personal level. Oliver maintained a gentle pace for the small group yet provided ample opportunity to engage in, experience, and appreciate the IFS process.”

- Linda Tanner, Clinical Psychologist - September 2024

“I found this training transformational, both personally and professionally. The safety, wisdom and acceptance Oliver provided allowed me to engage and experience a new sense of hope and confidence in helping to bring healing to myself and others.”

- Advanced Workshop Participant - September 2024

“Following the training, I felt so much more prepared to lead clients through getting to know and release their own legacy burdens. I loved the way there was lots of time allocated for experiential learning using demos and our own practice. that really allowed me to get a felt sense of what it’s like to put the concepts into practice. Oliver always creates a beautifully welcoming and open space and invites curiosity and self-awareness of our own parts. This created a really safe feeling for me which is so important when using IFS because it’s trauma work. I am so grateful to have found Oliver and his professional offerings as they have been such a catalyst of growth for me personally and professionally. It was a very robust follow-up to the Introductory training I did with Oliver in 2023. Thank you, Oliver.”

- Yara Heary, Psychologist - September 2024

“Deeply touched, a profound training and experience. Oliver's deep passion for IFS is truly infectious, the most profound workshop I have ever attended.”

- Stuart Hight, Counsellor - September 2024

“The IFS Advanced Experiential workshop provided a profound depth of knowledge and practice that built on the introductory workshop. The blend of lectures, live demonstrations, and practical learning opportunities made it feel so easy for participants to understand themselves and others within the IFS framework and to embody the model’s processes of compassionate curiosity toward psychological pain. The learning experience was supported by the presence of other trained therapists seeking to also develop their understanding of this powerful and gentle model. Oliver Brooke delivered the IFS material in a straightforward way that connected well with attendees. I have come away from this training with a robust ability to work even more effectively using an IFS-informed approach in a brief intervention sub-acute community mental health context.”

- Rachael, Mental Health Clinician - September 2024