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54-HOUR ONLINE SOMATIC IFS TRAINING

WITH SUSAN MCCONNELL

Dates:  May, 2025 - June 2025
Location:  Online

Description

​This 54-hour Step 2 Somatic IFS Online Training will build on your immersion into the practices of Somatic IFS that you experienced in the Somatic IFS Step 1 program.  Each weekly session of this clinical training will focus on the integration and application of the somatic practices of awareness, breath, resonance, movement, and touch with the IFS Model of psychotherapy.  

Demonstrations, instruction, and supervision in the clinical application of somatic practices, reading materials, didactic presentations, and large and small group discussions, will provide specific practical interventions to access, witness, and unburden your client’s parts to facilitate the state of Embodied Self.  

This 54-hour SIFS Online Training is open to those who have completed at least an IFS Level 1 Training as well as a 30-hour Step 1 Somatic IFS Retreat or Online Series. This training is limited to a maximum of 36 participants.

54 IFS-CE credits are available for IFS certification or recertification

 

54 CE credits:  Psychologists, Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists offered by CCIH, a licensed CEU provider in the state of Illinois. Many states will accept CEs for license renewal if that workshop has approved status from another state. Please check your specific state rules & regulations.

Bio

Susan McConnell, MAPD, CHT, senior trainer for the IFS Institute, has taught Internal Family Systems in the US and internationally since 1997. She is the author of Somatic Internal Family Systems: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch published by North Atlantic Books.  Somatic IFS is the culmination of her experience and teaching of various bodywork, movement, spiritual, and psychotherapeutic modalities that facilitate the embodiment of the internal family—the subpersonalities as well as the essential core Self—to bring compassionate witnessing to the implicit body stories of our individual hurts and societal burdens.  She offers retreats, workshops and trainings in Somatic IFS to participants throughout the world. 

Online Schedule - May 2025 - June 2025

SCHEDULE   (times are all based on Central USA Time - CST)

Whole Group

Thursday May 15

Thursday May 22

Thursday May 29

Thursday June 5

Thursday June 12

Thursday June 19

Thursday June 26

9-12:30

9-12:30

9-12:30

9-12:30

9-12:30

9-12:30

9-12:30

Supervised Practice Groups (SPG)

Friday May 16

Friday May 23

Friday May 30

Friday June 6

Friday June 13

Friday June 20

9-12:30

9-12:30

9-12:30

9-12:30

9-12:30

9-12:30

Please note - Whole Group Sessions will be led online by Susan McConnell.

Supervised Practice Groups (SPG's) will be led online by experienced Somatic IFS Staff and may also be assisted by mentees. During the Supervised Practice Groups, participants will experience the roles of therapist, client, and observer. 

 

In addition, participants will view a total of 15 hours of pre-taped instruction on the practices of Somatic IFS and will engage in discussion of their learnings.   

Required reading—Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement, and Touch in Practice by Susan McConnell. 

Your Investment: Full Training Tuition Cost: $3,200 USD.

We are delighted to offer flexibility with our payment options. You have two choices: you can make full payment now of $3200 (USD) or you can opt for our convenient payment plan. The payment plan breaks down the cost into three instalments:  

 

1: $1,000 (USD) - Non-refundable deposit due once you are formally accepted onto this training.

2: $1,000 (USD) - Second payment instalment due 11th November, 2024

3: $1,200 (USD) - Final Payment instalment due 14th February, 2025. 

IMPORTANT REMINDER: Attendance Requirements for receiving a certificate of completion for the Somatic IFS Step 2 Training Program. 

No more than 2 absences of the Thursday Whole Group Sessions and no more than 1 absence of the Supervised Practice Groups (SPG). If you miss an SPG session, you will need to arrange and pay for a separate consultation with your SPG Staff person. With an absence of the Whole Group Sessions, you will need to view the recording for the missed session which will be available for one week after the live group session. 

You can purchase this book on the IFS-I Store. It is also available on Amazon UK and US plus many independently owned book stores.

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