• Internal Family Systems often focuses on the internal environment of the client by addressing voices of judgement or cynicism they hear in their head. By contrast, a facilitator of Family Constellations strives to reconnect people with the origin of these voices in their family tree.
• Seeming universal parts: Managers(proactive, protective), Firefighters(reactive, protects the system from overflowing), and Exiles(carry the emotions/pain)
• helps with delayering
• inner-characters
• inner-critic
• everyone is at their core a self containing many crucial leadership qualities such as perspective, confidence, compassion, and acceptance
  • the eight C'ss of self-leadership include: calmness, curiosity, clarity, compassion, confidence, creativity, courage, and connectedness.
  • the 5 P's include: persence perspective, patience playfulness, persistence
    • https://www.therapywithalessio.com/articles/self-in-ifs-therapy-what-it-is-what-are-the-8-cs-and-the-5-ps-of-self
• can be a paradime for living
  • can we be with our parts or in our parts
  • coming from self-energy or from our parts
    • having awareness to be with our parts
• a way to clean up your psyche
• allocentric-to-egocentric-processing

Concepts

Self

• self
• https://ifsca.ca/wp-content/uploads/What-is-Self-Loch-Kelly.pdf
• concepts.solomon-paradox shows how looking from the self results in more quality

books

• Schwartz, R: Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition
• Self-Therapy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness and Healing Your Inner Child Using IFS, A New, Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy, 2nd Edition
• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
  • kaj-sotala: mostly because someone asked which IFS book is best to start out with and I said I recommend Self-Therapy but I haven't read No Bad Parts so I don't know if it's better, and then I started thinking that maybe I should read No Bad Parts to find out whether it is better and whether I should change my recommendation. So far it does a better job than Self-Therapy in making the model seem not-totally-crazy-and-woo, but I still wish it talked a bit more about "so what exactly are these parts and why does it make sense to think we really have them" before diving into an explanation of what kinds of dynamics are involved with them. Currently it just has an explanation of how Schwartz discovered parts in his clients and then it kinda just takes it as a given that okay these are a real thing (Which I obviously do believe at this point but I can imagine many readers who wouldn't)

Notes

• techniques like IFS are in principle capable of addressing the underlying source of the anger; once you do that you don’t need to counteract it anymore, it just effortlessly happens less if at all. you’ve “delayered” instead of “layering”
• It seemed like a lot of the stuff I read about psychology had these elaborate theories about what was drivin my behavior. Internal Family Systems gave me a set of tools for introspection that was pretty different from what seemd like guesses.
• Imo the end goal of IFS is sort of not doing IFS forever (ditto meditation, more or less). Tools for a lifetime, can always reach for them if needed but they sort of become you so that there’s no reaching, both the tools and the territory; If one does IFS and parts work correctly then one be becomes less part-ful over time—parts integrate, fuzz, and blur, slip through your fingers, less each time you come back. When truly fully heard they are you and you are them and that more integrated self simply feels and acts~
• (true) love = when all your parts are on board with a person
• Is sudden popularity of IFS a spontaneous response to the identity incoherence produced by the atomized mode?
• Richard Schwart on multiple selfs
• IFS, self-love or meditation.mettā https://twitter.com/uncatherio/status/1472841519707004930
• parts detection

Links

• Internal Family Systems Counselling Association
• Richard Schwartz — IFS, Psychedelic Experiences without Drugs, and Finding Inner Peace for Our Many Parts (#492)
• Internal Family Systems and The Multiplicity Of Mind | Frank Anderson
• Internal Family Systems Therapy: An Introduction
• Dealing With Your Inner Critic and Inner Child - Richard Schwartz
• https://ifs-institute.com/about-us
• What is Internal Family Systems? (17 Mins)
• Building up to an Internal Family Systems model
• Dream Mashup tags.to-read
• Twitter thread collection on IFS content
• Example of doing IFS with yourself
• Reflections on Part work and happiness
• Money and marketing through the lens of Internal Family Systems
• List of Introductions
• Richard Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
• Episode 088: How many minds do you have? (with Kaj Sotala) tags.to-watch
• https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1542179899863363585.html
• Exploring Internal Family Systems - Tasshin