203/303 Contacting the Healing Self

of how to go beyond mere detachment into a more engaged and relational form of self-compassion and self-healing. You’ll learn the strategies used in Internal Family Systems to contact the core “Self” and integrate the many, often conflicting aspects of parts that live within us. Through exercises and case histories, you’ll learn how to assist clients to communicate with disowned and disliked parts of themselves and connect with the deep, calm, compassionate Self that’s the source of healing, joy, inner leadership, and transcendence. (This session will continue with Workshop 303.)

Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Self Leadership and the originator of the Internal Family Systems model. His books include Internal Family Systems Therapy and, most recently, You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For. To learn more, visit http://www.selfleadership.org.