Healing Self: Going Beyond Acceptance to Self-Compassion – Richard C. Schwartz
- Faculty:
- Richard C. Schwartz
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 52 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Mar 24, 2017
Description
Mindfulness has become a popular and useful tool in psychotherapy, but therapists too often encourage clients to adopt a passive-observer stance in therapy, as if it’s enough to just observe thoughts and emotions from a place of separation. This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of how to guide your client move beyond detachment into a more engaged and relational form of self-compassion and self-healing.
Outline
Attachment Injuries
Internalized Parts of the Self
Parts Can Be Useful
Extreme Beliefs and Emotions
Injuries Like a Virus
Goal of Therapy
Harmony and Integration
Use the One Mind of Integration
Mindfulness Approaches Allow the Noticing and Awareness of What Happens in Emotional Pain
Can be used to move away from pain without resolving it
Parts Work Results in Healing Legacy Burdens
Map of the Parts Territory
Vulnerable Parts that are hurt by Trauma
Protectors
Exiles: connect, witness, and retrieval: interact with adult part, and move to present time
Managers
Firefighters
Bring Protectors into Realization That They do not Have to Change Now
Can Ask How the Self Feels Toward Different Parts = Parts Detector
Parts Protect the System
Recognizing These Parts
Parts Triggered in Relationship
Curiosity, Confidence, Compassion, Creativity, Courage, Calm
Connectedness and Clarity
Self Heals and Becomes the Absence of Parts with the Ability to Love Parts Under Stress
Faculty
Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., Owner
The Center for Self Leadership
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., earned his Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University, after which he began a long association with the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and more recently at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, attaining the status of associate professor at both institutions. He is co-author, with Michael Nichols, of Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods, the most widely used family therapy text in the United States.
Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems in response to clients’ descriptions of experiencing various parts – many extreme – within themselves. He noticed that when these parts felt safe and had their concerns addressed, they were less disruptive and would accede to the wise leadership of what Dr. Schwartz came to call the “Self.” In developing IFS, he recognized that, as in systemic family theory, parts take on characteristic roles that help define the inner world of the clients. The coordinating Self, which embodies qualities of confidence, openness, and compassion, acts as a center around which the various parts constellate. Because IFS locates the source of healing within the client, the therapist is freed to focus on guiding the client’s access to his or her true Self and supporting the client in harnessing its wisdom.
This approach makes IFS a non-pathologizing, hopeful framework within which to practice psychotherapy. It provides an alternative understanding of psychic functioning and healing that allows for innovative techniques in relieving clients symptoms and suffering.
In 2000, Richard Schwartz founded The Center for Self Leadership in Oak Park, Illinois. Dr. Schwartz is a featured speaker for many national psychotherapy organizations and a fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and he serves on the editorial boards of four professional journals.
He has published four books and over 50 articles about IFS. His books include Internal Family Systems Therapy, Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model, and The Mosaic Mind (with Regina Goulding), as well as Metaframeworks (with Doug Breunlin and Betty Karrer). Dr. Schwartz lives and practices in Brookline, MA and is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard School of Medicine.
Speaker Disclosure:
Financial: Richard Schwartz is the Founder of The Center for Self Leadership. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Richard Schwartz is a Fellow and member of the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy.
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