Richard C. Schwartz - Healing Self: Going Beyond Acceptance to Self-Compassion

Mindfulness has become a popular and useful tool in psychotherapy, but therapists too often encourage clients to adopt a passive-observer stance in therapy...

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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

Healing Self: Going Beyond Acceptance to Self-Compassion

Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., Owner Related seminars and products: 12

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.