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**** elib.tech Exclusive ****Help us keep elib all the more special for its exclusivity.Out of respect for the original authors and publishers,please do not make this product available outside of our community. Thanks for keeping elib awesome!This exclusive material brought to you by the participants of the IFS Basic GBThis GB is COMPLETEDAll Demo Bundle of Demonstration IFS SessionsIFS Sessions on Inner Critics + IFS Sessions + Steps in the IFS ProcessAuthors: Jay Earley Ph.D & Bonnie Weiss LCSWProduct website: hereDescription:This is a bundle of all the Demonstration IFS Sessions.Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) is the signature work of pioneering psychologist Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. If you are new to IFS, these demo sessions can help you learn what happens in an IFS session. If you are more experienced, you can study particular types of IFS sessions to enhance your skills with the IFS Model and learn how to apply it more effectively. These sessions are intended for people who are working on themselves using IFS. They are not geared toward professional training for therapists.We have recorded a variety of different types of IFS sessions. Some are short segments of sessions that illustrate specific steps in the IFS process. Others are full sessions that go all the way to unburdening. Still others are full sessions that don’t necessarily go through all steps of the process. Each session is described in enough detail that you can decide if you want to purchase it. You can buy individual session downloads or you can purchase them in groups at a discount.Each download includes a short introduction to the session and a more detailed discussion afterward to help you understand how the IFS Model was applied in this case.Demonstration Sessions: IFS Sessions on Inner CriticsThese demonstration sessions shows how to work with Inner Critic parts.In IFS terms, Inner Critics are protectors that use self-judgment as a strategy for protecting you. In working with Critics, a cluster of other parts is often triggered, which includes the Criticized Child and the Inner Defender. Our IFS Inner Critic work is described in our book Self-Therapy for Your Inner Critic.Taskmaster A: Introduction to Inner Critic Work (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This demonstration session shows how to work with an Inner Critic part. We have identified seven types of Inner Critics; this is one is a Taskmaster. The Taskmaster tries to get you to work hard or be disciplined in order to be successful or to avoid being mediocre.This is a session that was recorded during an introductory class for the Inner Critic. It is a lovely example of working with someone totally new to IFS whose parts respond enthusiastically to attention from her. She identifies the Criticized Child and the Critic and begins the process of getting to know the Critic.Taskmaster B: Helping the Exile being Protected by the Critic (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This demonstration session shows how to work with an Inner Critic part. We have identified seven types of Inner Critics; this is one is a Taskmaster. The Taskmaster tries to get you to work hard or be disciplined in order to be successful or to avoid being mediocre. This session was done right before this client was doing a presentation before a large audience and shortly before a stressful job interview. He begins the work with a young part who is asking Self for help and calling him “Daddy.” His usual Drill Sergeant (Taskmaster) Critic is off to the side, deflated because he sees he hasn’t been helpful. Work with the exile reveals a large-eyed infant crawling around in the presence of disapproving adults. The infant is very receptive to compassionate contact with Self. The Taskmaster, even more relieved, is happy to be transformed into a more social connector. The system easily reorganizes itself.Perfectionist A: Getting to Know and Unburdening a Critic (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This demonstration session shows how to work with an Inner Critic part. We have identified seven types of Inner Critics. This one is a Perfectionist that strives for perfection in all aspects of life. This part has very high standards for behavior, performance, and production.In this IFS session, the client identifies the Perfectionist Critic, separates from parts that have attitudes or feelings toward it, and places the child who is being hurt by the Critic in a safe place in order to get into Self. Then she gets to know the Critic, understands its motivations, updates it, brings it into the present, and unburdens it.Perfectionist B: Unblending from the Criticized Child and Transforming the Critic (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This demonstration session shows how to work with an Inner Critic part. We have identified seven types of Inner Critics. This one is a Perfectionist that strives for perfection in all aspects of life. This part has very high standards for behavior, performance, and production.This session is a good example of a client’s difficulty in articulating the Critic because she is blended with the Criticized Child. Bonnie helps her to differentiate what is going on in her system and separate the voices. She then can get a clear picture of the Critic, unearth the childhood memories of its origin, retrieve and unburden the exile, and transform the Critic.Underminer Inner Critic (Jay Earley, Ph.D)This session shows how to work with an Inner Critic part. We have identified seven types of Inner Critics. This is one is an Underminer, which tries to destroy your self-confidence so you won’t take risks in areas where you might fail. It can also try to prevent you from getting too big, powerful, or visible to avoid the threat of attack and rejection.This Underminer Critic makes this client doubt herself and her work. It comes up as she is getting ready to bring her creativity out in a more public way. It tells her that she is not up to par and slows her down as she is finishing projects.She puts the Criticized Child in a safe place and begins to develop a relationship with the Critic and understand its motivations. This brings out the Creative Part that had been inhibited by the Critic so she can negotiate a new relationship with it.Inner Controller Inner Critic (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This demonstration session shows how to work with an Inner Critic part. We have identified seven types of Inner Critics; this one is an Inner Controller. The Inner Controller part shames you to try to control impulsive or addictive behavior that it thinks is dangerous. It is often polarized with an Indulger Part.This is a session with an ongoing client who has been working with an Inner Controller Inner Critic. The Controller Part is polarized with an Indulger Part that indulges with food and in relationships. It is a wonderful demonstration of working with a part that doesn’t trust the Self. We are able to negotiate with the Controller to give us access to the exile it is protecting and to retrieve the exile.Healing a Guilt Tripper Critic (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This demonstration session shows how to work with an Inner Critic part. We have identified seven types of Inner Critics; this is one is a Guilt Tripper. The Guilt Tripper attacks you for some specific action you have taken (or not taken) in the past.This self-aware client has had no previous experience with IFS. She has a severe Guilt Tripper that has never forgiven her for a parenting incident when her now-adult daughter was an infant. She explores how the part that was operative at that time carries a legacy burden from her father and also a childhood burden based on how her father treated her as a child.She is able to have compassion for this guilt-tripping “father part” and make loving contact with it. In retrieving and unburdening this part, she is healing the part of her that protected her from her father’s cruel parenting, and she is also healing her father of his own abuse background.Destroyer Inner Critic (Jay Earley, Ph.D)This demonstration session shows how to work with an Inner Critic part. We have identified seven types of Inner Critics; this is one is a Destroyer. The Destroyer makes pervasive attacks on your fundamental self-worth. It is deeply shaming and believes you shouldn’t exist.This client is working with an Inner Critic part that is causing her a lot of physical pain. She is surprised to find out how it is actually trying to protect her, and she makes a nice connection with it, which sets the stage for possible later work to transform it.Finding a Molder Critic’s Inner Champion (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This demonstration session shows how to work with an Inner Critic part. We have identified seven types of Inner Critics; this is one is a Molder. The Molder tries to get you to fit a certain societal mold or act in a certain way that is based on your own family experience or culture. This can be any kind of mold—e.g., caring, aggressive, or polite. It attacks you when you don’t fit in and praises you when you do.In this demo from an Inner Critic Class, the student says she is hearing the voice of a Molder Critic that says, “You must fit in.”  She identifies a Criticized Child Part whom she puts safely with her Inner Champion. She proceeds to get to know the Critic and get some perspective on what it wants for her.Ostracized Indulger (Jay Earley, Ph.D)The Indulger is a part that is impulsive or addictive. It is often polarized with an Inner Controller Inner Critic.This session is with an Indulger Part that has been triggered during a class. The client was surprised by the Indulger coming up and wanted to explore it. It reveals an exile that was ostracized as a child. This part receives recognition from the group as part of its healing.Reacting to External Criticism (Jay Earley, Ph.D)Criticism from another person often activates an Inner Critic and other parts that react to the external criticism or the Critic.This is an instance in which someone in a class has been criticized by a friend. We role play the criticism to activate the parts, unblend from defensive parts, and work with and heal the exile at the core. This session shows how to deal with a defensive protector. It also includes a touching healing of an exile who has wanted a friend and finds one in the transformed protector.Demonstration Sessions: IFS SessionsThese sessions illustrate the use of IFS with clients dealing with a variety of issues.  They are offered to help you learn how to work with your own parts.Childhood Dissociative Trauma Repaired (Jay Earley, Ph.D)This is a continuation of a piece of work that was begun in a previous session.  It shows the impact of the therapist’s precision in holding the model as a framework. A number of times the therapist asks a question that brings to consciousness what is there. The client is dealing with a memory of a normally loving mother who was suddenly harsh because of offensive words the child said without knowing their meaning. The child dissociated from the terror of the encounter and developed an Accommodator protector that tries to make sure she does everything right. This session involves witnessing and healing the terrified exile and then dealing with a dissociating protector.Legacy Burden of Financial Anxiety (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This session works with a legacy burden; the client discovers that a part holding financial anxiety has a legacy burden from her mother’s Irish heritage. She is able to unburden her ancestors “into the mists of time” and bring in positive qualities. She also activates an internal male and female team of financial advisors to help her in the present.The Enticer (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This work is with someone who was a Focusing student and became interested in IFS. Therefore, there is a lot of teaching about IFS on this recording. She starts with a polarity between a Critic that is unhappy with her because she takes on more than she has energy for, and the Enticer, a part that gets excited about things and lures her into making commitments. She gets to know this part and is surprised when she understands its origins and motivation.Polarization Between “Take Your Time” and “Do It Now Parts” (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This session involves a polarization between a Procrastinator and a Taskmaster Inner Critic. We have identified seven types of Inner Critics. The Taskmaster tries to get you to work hard or be disciplined in order to be successful or to avoid being mediocre. This gentle work explores parts named Take Your Time (Procrastinator) and Get It Done (Taskmaster). The client gets to know the Take Your Time part and the exile it protects.Opening One’s Heart by Accessing an Inner Champion (Jay Earley, Ph.D)This is a lovely session in which someone is working on getting to know a Protector that is afraid of opening her heart with people. She evokes a healthy capacity of openhearted love, which then morphs into other Self capacities. She spontaneously invokes her Inner Champion to help her.Underminer (Jay Earley, Ph.D)In this session from an IFS class, the client has an Underminer that tells her that her efforts at making changes in her life are hopeless. It makes the client feel depressed and despondent. The work moves to explore an exile from a time when her family was not coping well with a number of tragedies and losses. The parents were not in control of their lives and didn’t make contact with her. She is able to reparent this exile and unburden it.Demonstration Sessions: Steps in the IFS ProcessThese demonstration sessions were recorded during Basic IFS phone classes and are intended help you learn how to work with your own parts. They illustrate steps in the IFS process as outlined in Self-Therapy by Jay Earley.Accessing a Part: The Hot Chick (Jay Earley, Ph.D)This is a short demonstration that shows the use of different channels (e.g., auditory, sensory, visual, or memory) in the initial accessing of a part.Unblending from an Activated Part (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This is a class demonstration of working with a protector that the client is blended with. Bonnie repeatedly re-focus the client on the work while using her presence to allow the client to feel listened to and held. She uses teaching as a way of containing the work and bringing her more authentically into contact with her parts.The Hulk: Developing a Relationship with a Protector (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This session is from a Basic Class in which students are learning to access parts. This student had an experience in an outside group that morning that activated a protector part named The Hulk. In this session, she begins to explore and develop a relationship with the part.Accessing and Getting to Know a Procrastinator Named Boo (Bonnie Weiss, LCSW)This recording is from a Basic Class in which the student is working on accessing a part. This Procrastinator Part was well known to her but not present at the time. Therefore, she had to activate it to access it. She sees it clearly and is able to stay in Self as she gets to know its motivations.Unburdening an Exile (Jay Earley, Ph.D)This is a follow-up piece of work with an exile who was previously identified and contacted. The protector easily allows contact with the exile, who had been witnessed in a previous session. The exile allows the client (in Self) to enter the scene and be the one who hears her voice. The client then unburdens the exile and renegotiates a new role for the protector. This is a good example of how to follow up on a piece of work already in progress.Drama Hero Part (Jay Earley, Ph.D)This is a beautiful example of a full IFS session with a part that was triggered by an incident in her life. The session takes you through getting to know the protector, named The Drama Hero, understanding its complex motivations, making contact with a traumatized exile, witnessing the exile, going back into the scene and reparenting the exile, retrieving it, unburdening it, and finding a new role for the protector.