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September 2024-July 2025
This year my group offerings are a conscious dedication to our exiles. There are two groups to choose from: one content focused, and one self-care focused. Both closed groups will meet once monthly for 11 months. A commitment to attending to our most tender parts will guide our exploration and deepening and our guests are tour de force in this arena:
- In the first term Paul Neustadt will join us to present his touching approach: ‘The Gifts of our Exiles’. Paul will offer practical tools to deepen the bond and also lead us in an embodied practice of connection with our exiles and the wounds they hold.
- In the second term, none other than Toni Herbine-Blank - the founder and creator of IFS for couples - Intimacy from the Inside Out, will join us. Toni will teach us to recognise how and when young parts get recruited in relationship. In addition, Toni will explain how we might support a turning towards Self so that needs are met within first. This ‘U-turn’ changes the dynamic as we ‘re-turn’ to relationship. Toni is not to be missed!
- In the final term we welcome back a hands-down favourite of every Circles of Strength group, Sid Friedman. Expertly blending IFS with Loch Kelly’s Effortless Mindfulness, we can look forward to being led by Sid in a repeatable practice to bring Self in real-time relationship to our most tender parts. Time with Sid is a gift to our systems.
IFS therapist Selfcare Group
What: A surprising aspect of IFS is that in training and working with clients, we can become aware of a need to attend to our own inner world. Perhaps a knowing, pattern or wound - old or new, has awakened in you. Rightly, there are ample opportunities to discuss client work in supervision and consultation groups. But if you have a yearning for space to process what is present in you then one of the 6 seats in this Therapist Self Care group is wholeheartedly offered to you.
Thus far, these groups have been full of strong, smart, honest, courageous therapists. As well as the therapeutic rigour of senior lead trainers at the top of their game (listed above), the curriculum rightly flexes to reflect the interests and passions in the group. In these mutually supportive group containers, we have explored areas such as our individual working model (our parts), addictive process, striving, grief, embodied process and practice.
Who: Designed to be compatible with individual IFS therapy, supervision and consultation, the group is for IFS trained and IFS-informed therapists and practitioners wishing to find a space to explore what comes to our awareness in exploring the model. Paced to be realistic about what it takes to run a practice, hold our clients, and take good self-care as therapists in the process. This group offers space for you once monthly on a Friday. To live the therapist self-care value, we will avoid holiday weekends and observe an August pause so an 11-month commitment to be part of caring group container is essential.
Dates & Times: Fridays 1-2.30pm UK (90 minutes)
Important calendar note – October and March groups will be at different times to accommodate our guest speakers in unfriendly time zones **.
September 20th, 2024, October 11th, 2024* (4.30pm-6pm), 15th November 2024, 13th December 2024.
17th January 2025, 14th February 2025, 21st March 2025* (3pm-4.30pm), 25th April 2025, 16th May 2025, 20th June 2025, 11th July 2025.
Cost: £75 per month/ £825 for 11 months
Deepening Together Monday and Friday
What: If deepening, stretching and integrating your IFS knowledge and practice is one of your 2024 -2025 goals there are 6 seats in this closed group. Designed for IFS Level 1 graduates, we will take what you have learned so far as a jump off point in September for our 11 informing and expanding months together. As well as inspiring the IFS guest speakers at the edge of IFS innovation (listed above), I will share the knowledge I have been gifted by many lead trainers and senior IFS voices as well as my own ‘notes from the road’ from being in IFS private practice.
Who: Graduates of IFS training, minimum Level 1, who wish to deepen into the principles learned in order to build confidence as you introduce and integrate IFS into existing practise. I make no distinction between practitioners and therapists, the guiding principle here is that you are familiar with the foundational principles of IFS as we build from this base. An 11-month commitment to be part of caring group container is essential.
Dates & Times: Fridays 1-2.30pm UK (90 minutes)
Important calendar note – October and March groups will be at different times to accommodate our guest speakers in unfriendly time zones **.
September 13th, 2024, October 11th, 2024*(3pm-4.30pm), 8th November 2024, 6th December 2024.
10th January 2025, 7th February 2025, 14th March 2025*(3pm-4.30pm), 4th April 2025, 2nd May 2025, 6th June 2025, 4th July 2025.
Cost: £75 per month/ £825 for 11 months
About me: This is my third year offering these IFS groups based on Chris Burris’s Healing Circles principles. I am an experienced psychodynamic counsellor (OXON, Dip. Dist.) and I am IFS Level 3 trained. I have been working with the model for 10 years, first as a client and then trained by the preeminent such as: Richard Schwartz (L3 in-person) Chris Burris (group training) Cece Sykes (addiction) Paul Ginter (IFS foundation), Frank Anderson (trauma), Toni Herbine-Blank (self and parts in relationship). I also programme assist senior lead trainers in the UK and Ireland supporting the ever-growing cohort of IFS enthusiasts adding IFS to their practice.
Questions? I would love to hear from you at sarah@circlesofstrengththerapy.co.uk or www.circlesofstrengththerapy.co.uk
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