Listening To the Body's Wisdom: Integrating IFS and Somatic Practices with Fran Booth

Listening to the Body’s Wisdom: Integrating IFS and Somatic Practices

April 30 – May 3, 2026

Join IFSI Solo Lead Trainer, Fran Booth, for a retreat-style workshop to deepen the integration of somatic work into your IFS practice.

“Find it in the body” is a central tenet of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) healing process. This experiential workshop weaves 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.

This workshop supports growth both personally and professionally. As we more fully understand and engage our own somatic experience, we deepen somatic awareness, strengthen our capacity to embody Self-energy, and enhance our ability to support clients on their unique healing journeys.

💲Cost: Early Bird: $650, until 04/01/2026 Regular: $695, plus meals and lodging

Book Lodging as soon as possible through Sunrise Ranch. You will receive a special link once ticket is purchased.:

https://sunriseranch.org/Accommodations

A variety of lodging options and rates are available; meals are included in lodging fees. Starting at $90/day for commuter fee up to $259/day for private apt. Available on a first-come basis, so reserve your lodging at the same time you register.

🌟You will leave this workshop feeling refreshed and more confident with integrating somatic practices into your IFS therapy.

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.

12:00-1:15 Lunch

1:15-3 Break for reflection, journaling, personal treatment

3:15 – 5:30 pm Session

6:00 pm Dinner

7:15-8:15 pm Evening circle.                             

Saturday

7-7:50 am Gentle Movement (optional)

8 – 9 am Breakfast

9:15- 11:30 am session

11:30 Begin community silence

12:00-1:15 Lunch in silence, mindful eating

1:15-3 Break for reflection, journaling, personal treatment

3:15 – 5:30 pm session

6:00 pm Dinner

7:15-8:15 pm evening circle.                            

Sunday

8:00 breakfast

9:15 closing circle until 11:00

11:00 check out

12 noon Lunch

There will be time for an optional guided hike, private reflection time, exploring the labyrinth, or you may want to schedule an energy attunement with trained practitioners at Sunrise Ranch outside of the workshop program (schedule directly with the facility when making your reservation).

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.