What to expect from a Somatic Internal Family Systems Retreat (SIFS)?

Susan McConnell’s amazing Somatic IFS retreat is a retreat not to be missed.

Somatic IFS is a branch of IFS that blends the principles of somatic therapy – like movement, touch, sensation and breathwork – with the traditional tools of IFS. Somatic IFS explores the embodiment of the internal family with the goal of restoring the client’s SELF to leadership and allowing parts that express through the body to come into relationship and alignment with the client’s SELF.

On this retreat, you will be invited to explore your internal system with the practices of Somatic IFS. Through guided exercises, journaling, live in the moment mini-demos and small group interactions you will listen to your parts through sensations, movement and touch. Your experience of the Embodied Self can transform your personal and professional life.

During the retreat you will experience for yourself the five practices of Somatic IFS –

1. Somatic Awareness
2. Conscious Breathing
3. Radical Resonance
4. Mindful Movement
5. Attuned Touch

Susan, through Somatic IFS, incorporates the five practices to help you heal parts’s burdens in the body, using the IFS model.

Demos During the Retreat

Please note that while Susan will offer a number of brief, in-the-moment (micro) demos throughout the retreat, there will be no formal demo sessions with individual participants.

Susan reserves formal demos for her training programmes, where there is dedicated time and structure to observe, reflect, and study her approach in depth. This retreat, by contrast, is designed to support your personal experience, integration, growth and embodiment.

We kindly invite you and your parts to arrive with this understanding, so expectations are clear and any potential disappointment can be avoided. Susan will, however, engage in many informal demos during the week in response to questions and where it feels appropriate in the moment.

The retreat is open to IFS graduates only.

PLEASE NOTE: This Step 1 Program is an experiential Retreat and NOT a formal training of the model nor is it an official or accredited training program of the IFS Institute or its model. Once you fully complete a Step 1 Retreat with Susan McConnell, you are eligible to take her Step 2 – 54Hr Online Training in Somatic IFS which instructs and supports you to apply Somatic IFS in your clinical practice.

20 IFS-CE credits are available for this Somatic IFS Retreat which can be used towards IFS certification or recertification.

A completion certificate will only be offered to participants who attend all 30 hours of this retreat. If, for any reason you cannot attend the full 30 hours, you will not be issued with a completion certificate. You will also require a completion certificate from a Step 1 Program to be eligible to attend a Step 2 54-hour Somatic IFS Training Program.

This retreat is limited to 32 participants.

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