Welcome to the EM+IFS Training Series. In this series of three self-paced online courses, we’ve curated a potent selection of videos and resources that blend theory, practice, and skill stacking to help you embody a Self-Led Life.
Join renowned psychotherapist and Mindful Glimpses app creator Loch Kelly to unlock the transformative power of Effortless Mindfulness and his unique style of “Self-Led IFS” tools.
Loch has co-taught numerous retreats and workshops with IFS-creator Dick Schwartz and has created an original synthesis that integrates IFS Parts Work with the liberating nondual practice of Effortless Mindfulness.
Loch offers his contemporary ways to ‘glimpse’ our awake nature immediately and heal our wounded parts. When Loch and I have taught together, I have found, for myself and students, that Loch’s practices are amazingly effective.
EM+IFS One: Living from Awakened Self Leadership
1. EM+IFS One: Living from Awakened Self Leadership
In this self-paced introduction to EM+IFS, you’ll learn a new psycho-educational approach to experientially navigating your consciousness during the day, seamlessly shifting out of a parts-based view into Self Leadership. You’ll learn:
- How to use Self-Led IFS during the day when blended with a part.
- Tools and techniques you can immediately bring into your professional practice.
- How to access Loch’s 11 i’s of Self Essence as the foundation of Self.
- Why so few have discovered Self even though it is present within each of us.
- How to use a unique version of IFS’s 6 F’s to find Self.
- How to distinguish Self from the four most common Self-like parts.
- New ways to un-blend from parts and know Self as clearly as you know parts.
- How to shift out of your ego manager part and into Self Essence and then Self Energy.
- How to avoid common traps on the path to Self-Leadership: spiritual bypass, psychological underpass, intellectual overpass, and meditative cul de sacs.
- How to distinguish subtle body energy and empathy from Self-Energy.
EM+IFS Two: Fine-Tuning the Methods for Accessing Awakened Self
2. EM+IFS Two: Fine-Tuning the Methods for Accessing Awakened Self
In This Training You’ll Learn:
- How (and Why) Effortless Mindfulness is the key to unlocking Internal Family Systems.
- How to distinguish Self from the four most common Self-like parts: When working with different parts and Self, it can be hard to track when a part that seems like Self is present.
- The subtle cues to look out for and, ultimately, how to go deeper with parts work.
- How to recognize the felt sense of being blended with your ego manager part during the day.
- Techniques to shift to Self Essence throughout your day.
- New ways to know Self as clearly as you know parts.
- How to relate with the ego manager part and shift through the stages of Self.
EM+IFS 3: The Next Stage of Mindfulness Waking Up and Growing Up with EM+IFS
3. EM+IFS Three: The Dance of Self and Parts
Here’s what you’ll walk away with:
- Learn the reality and experience the relief of the parts-based psyche
- Realize that extreme feelings are parts of you (like sub-minds) and that you can relate to them like you would a little child
- Learn how to discover the Self within you (and leverage your Self on the path of healing and integrating all parts)
- Understand the path and the goal of Self Leadership
- Discover why true healing begins with the Self
- Learn how to distinguish protective parts and exiles from Self
- Learn how to distinguish Self from self-like parts (this can significantly impact the effectiveness of your parts work!)
- Learn the differences between EM and conventional mindfulness
- Learn the 6 F’s of EM/IFS to identify your parts
- Discover the 8 C’s as an entrypoint into Self (and a compass to know when self-like parts are present)EM+IFS Three: The Dance of Self and Parts
What Is EM+IFS?
Effortless Mindfulness is informed by the Internal Family Systems model of therapy. A basic working understanding of IFS is helpful in learning how to internalize, navigate, and flourish across the 5 Levels of Mind. Why is this the case?
Most popular mindfulness programs begin with Everyday Mind and end with Subtle Mind, which is the second level in Loch’s model. Effortless Mindfulness really diverges from other mindfulness paths at Level 3, which is Awake Aware Mind.
This is the ever-present dimension within us that is always awake, calm, clear, and untouched by worry, doubt, shame and fear. This marks the life-changing discovery of consciousness beyond thought-based knowing.
However, moving past awake awareness into the other levels of mind requires some basic understanding of parts work. Why? Because as we traverse the 4th and 5th levels of Mind and Self, parts are going to come up.
And we need to learn how to navigate those parts in the most wholesome and effective way to further heal, liberate, and awaken our own consciousness and so you can live with abiding calm, clarity, and compassion. And it is Levels four and five of the mind that makes the real difference in this model as we integrate our full human experience.
To this end, in these three self-paced courses, you’ll receive an organic blend of theory, practice, and reflection exercises to help you realize these higher potentials.
Who is the EM+IFS Series Designed For?
- Practitioners of Effortless Mindfulness
- Therapists using IFS or other styles of psychotherapy
- Clinical psychologists
- Coaches
- Anyone interested in learning about IFS therapy and Parts Work
- Anyone involved in therapy including IFS or parts therapy
- Wellness and healthcare professionals
- New or seasoned meditators
- Anyone exploring self-development
- Yoga teachers
- Body workers
- HR Professionals
Loch Kelly leading a workshop with IFS creator Richard Schwartz, Phd, at Blue Spirit Retreat Center in Costa Rica.
