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This intimate, 3-day advanced IFS professional development workshop (max. 12 participants) is designed for clinicians, including counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, mental health professionals, and students.

Building on foundational skills from the IFS Workshop: Experiential Introduction, this workshop deepens understanding and practice of IFS therapy. Participants will explore the healing steps of the IFS model, including working with polarizations, unburdening parts, and engaging with legacy burdens and gifts. The workshop includes live demonstrations, guided meditations, Q&A sessions, and hands-on practice to enhance skills and embodied knowledge.

Prerequisite: Completion of Introductory IFS Workshop.

What are the details of this workshop?

Day 1 - Healing with IFS: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm - doors open from 9 am, we will start at 9:15 sharp.

Day 2 - Working with Polarisations: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm - doors open from 9 am, we will start at 9:15 sharp.

Day 3 - Legacy burdens, gifts and ancestors: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm - doors open from 9 am, we will start at 9:15 sharp.

Cost: $1200 fee per person ($1100 course fee, $100 non-refundable admin fee) + 10% GST + Humanitix Booking Fee.

Enrolment confirmed upon payment through Humanitix.

Refund: The workshop fee is refundable up to 30 days before the start of the workshop.

Maximum group size: 12 participants.

Does not include meals: There will be a 15-minute tea break and a 30-minute lunch break each day. A selection of teas, coffees, water, and biscuits will be provided. Please bring your own lunch each day.

Venue: To be confirmed close to the date of each advanced workshop, it will be within 50 km of Perth CBD.

What does this Advanced Workshop Include?

Interactive lectures on:

Deepening understanding of IFS Theory of Mind

• Multiplicity

• Systems Thinking

• Parts - Exiles, Managers, and Fire Fighters

• The Self

Deepening of IFS Process

• Working with protectors

• The 6 F’s

• Working with polarisations

• Protector Fears

• Unblending

• Healing Steps

Connecting with Exiles and releasing burdens

• Relational Trauma through an IFS lens

• Healing steps of the model

• Releasing burdens

• Personal burdens & Legacy Burdens

• Healing intelligence, Self, Self Like Parts and Guides 

Understanding Internal System Dynamics

• Hirarchey

• Polarisation

• Alliances

• Internal System dynamics

• Therapist-client polarisations

Legacy in IFS

• Legacy Burdens

• Legacy Gifts

• Ancestors

• Legacy unburdening

Experiential Components:

Daily IFS meditations

Hearing the theory is one thing. Experiencing it is another.
Throughout the two days, several IFS meditations will give you a direct experience of some of the topics covered in the lectures.

Three live IFS demonstrations

Oliver will demonstrate the IFS process with a volunteer from the
workshop participants once a day. The demonstrations will last 60 - 90 minutes, followed by a debrief with the volunteer and a Q and A.

Practicing IFS Psychotherapy

Participants will be given the time and space to practice the IFS 6
F’s process of working with protective parts, twice during the workshop. This will be a real-play with each participant pairing up with another participant and taking on the role of client and therapist. If there is an uneven number of participants, one group will have three participants and rotate through the roles of client, therapist, and observer. 

How do I get a ticket to the next workshop?

All tickets for IFS Workshops are available through Humanitix. You can head to the Upcoming Workshops Page here.

Waiting list for future IFS Workshop: Advanced Experiential!

Please fill in your details below if you would like to be contacted about future IFS Workshop: Advanced Experientials, or if currently advertised Workshops are Sold Out.

I am unable to attend in person. Is there an online alternative?

If you are unable to attend an in person IFS Workshop, please register your interest for an Online IFS Workshop here

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Is this workshop equivalent to the official IFS Training?

This is a workshop in IFS theory and practice. It is not an Internal Family Systems Institute (IFS-I) level 1 training. Only the IFS-I can offer training in IFS. Only graduates of official level 1 Training by IFS-I may competently and in good faith practice IFS clinically and facilitate unburdenings with clients. For level 1 Training by the Institute please follow this link: https://ifs-institute.com/trainings/level-1

Workshop Facilitator: Oliver Brooke

Oliver is a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, Registered Professional Counsellor (ACA Level 4), Recognised Clinical Supervisor and is an experienced group facilitator. Oliver has worked in human services for over a decade and has seven years of experience running adult education groups. Oliver was a counsellor for Relationships Australia WA and ran behavior change groups, Relationship Education groups, and professional development workshops for over five years. Oliver now focuses on his private practice, which provides IFS psychotherapy, clinical workshops in IFS, and IFS clinical supervision.

Oliver is known as a calm, welcoming, and thoughtful facilitator. He speaks clearly and with heart about the topics he is passionate about (especially everything IFS-related!). As a presenter and group leader, Oliver is highly organised, offering structured workshops that provide digestible building blocks of knowledge reinforced with visual, live, or recorded examples. He is also flexible and follows the cues and needs of participants.

You will receive engaging information delivered openly and interactively. While you are in the participant role, Oliver welcomes all parts of you, including those who may feel skeptical about the course content. All curious questions are welcome - he believes it deepens all learning.

Oliver knows that to take his clients through the process of healing, he must walk beside them. Oliver is committed to his personal healing journey as an IFS client, committing to regular IFS therapy. He also commits to regular supervision with  IFS Lead Trainer Kirsten Lundeberg from the IFS Institute and attends an advanced IFS consulting group with Robert Falconer fortnightly. Oliver integrates the IFS model into his day-to-day life and spiritual practices.

“In the IFS workshop, I want to facilitate a safe interactive, and engaging experience. Where you will have the opportunity to learn the theory and process of IFS therapy. You will also experience several IFS mediations to meet some of your own parts, and two live demonstrations of IFS therapy, and I will provide you the time and space to practice IFS first steps yourself. I am very excited to have you in my group” - Oliver, December 2022

What are past participants saying?

“I found the IFS Advanced Experiential Workshop with Oliver to be extremely beneficial on both a professional and personal level. Oliver maintained a gentle pace for the small group yet provided ample opportunity to engage in, experience, and appreciate the IFS process.”

- Linda Tanner, Clinical Psychologist - September 2024

“I found this training transformational, both personally and professionally. The safety, wisdom and acceptance Oliver provided allowed me to engage and experience a new sense of hope and confidence in helping to bring healing to myself and others.”

- Advanced Workshop Participant - September 2024

“Following the training, I felt so much more prepared to lead clients through getting to know and release their own legacy burdens. I loved the way there was lots of time allocated for experiential learning using demos and our own practice. that really allowed me to get a felt sense of what it’s like to put the concepts into practice. Oliver always creates a beautifully welcoming and open space and invites curiosity and self-awareness of our own parts. This created a really safe feeling for me which is so important when using IFS because it’s trauma work. I am so grateful to have found Oliver and his professional offerings as they have been such a catalyst of growth for me personally and professionally. It was a very robust follow-up to the Introductory training I did with Oliver in 2023. Thank you, Oliver.”

- Yara Heary, Psychologist - September 2024

“Deeply touched, a profound training and experience. Oliver's deep passion for IFS is truly infectious, the most profound workshop I have ever attended.”

- Stuart Hight, Counsellor - September 2024

“The IFS Advanced Experiential workshop provided a profound depth of knowledge and practice that built on the introductory workshop. The blend of lectures, live demonstrations, and practical learning opportunities made it feel so easy for participants to understand themselves and others within the IFS framework and to embody the model’s processes of compassionate curiosity toward psychological pain. The learning experience was supported by the presence of other trained therapists seeking to also develop their understanding of this powerful and gentle model. Oliver Brooke delivered the IFS material in a straightforward way that connected well with attendees. I have come away from this training with a robust ability to work even more effectively using an IFS-informed approach in a brief intervention sub-acute community mental health context.”

- Rachael, Mental Health Clinician - September 2024