Self-Led IFS Training Online

EM+IFS One: Living from Awakened Self Leadership

 A Self-Paced Online Course in EM+IFS

Led by Loch Kelly, M.Div, LCSW,  meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and Mindful Glimpses App creator

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Do You Aspire To Live An Awake And Embodied 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 in this rare self-paced online training. 

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.

 

In this self-paced and Self-Led IFS Training Online 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 also learn how to guide others in this modality.

Discover and experience the life-changing fusion of IFS principles with Effortless Mindfulness so you can live an awake and embodied Self-led life.

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In this Self-Led IFS Training Online You’ll Learn:

  • How to use Self-Led IFS on the spot 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, if Self is essential within each of us, have so few discovered it?
  • 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 “Self-Led IFS” offers the benefits of psychedelic therapy without using medicine.
  • How to distinguish subtle body energy and empathy from Self-Energy.
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Richard Schwartz and Loch Kelly
Dr. Dick Schwartz and Loch Kelly, teaching at Blue Spirit, Costa Rica, March 2024

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.

Richard Schwartz, Phd Founder of IFS

I am a US Army Veteran with severe PTSD...This method works virtually instantly. Thank you so much Loch. Your work is literally saving Veteran’s lives. It saved mine. It is especially wonderful how these teachings dovetail into the Internal Family Systems therapy modality. I have watched Loch’s YouTube videos with Richard Schwartz on IFS and it was so helpful to know this practice is safe for everyone.

- Retreat Participant
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When You Enroll in EM+IFS One You’ll Receive:

29 Topical Video Lessons

Enjoy 8 hours of course content including lectures, mindful glimpses, and guided meditations with Loch Kelly.

Lifetime Access

Receive lifetime access to all video trainings, transcripts, guided meditations, course PDFs, worksheets, Ebooks, and slide decks.

Workshop Materials

  • Self-Led IFS worksheets 
  • IFS meditations
  • Loch’s comprehensive “What is Self?” eBook
  • PowerPoint presentation on Accessing Self
  • Survey Handout on Penky-Richard’s Mystical Scale

What Course Participants Are Saying

The Self-Led IFS Training helped me to experience being Self-Led. Loch's friendly, humble, and compassionate demeanor helped increase my confidence and trust in Self.
~Richard ShookPHD
My practice has been elevated to new levels. Being able to access the place under thoughts and emotional heart to connect to unconditional love and the sense of being held which I have been seeking all my life. Parts practice is an absolute life changer for me, being able to attend and befriend the parts of me that need my love and attention, release of stored energy in my body. Thank you so much, I am overflowing with gratitude.
~Lesley M.~EM+IFS One Course Participant
Loch's Self led Compassion shines bright throughout the workshop and makes it easier to find and express from Self. I particularly appreciated the experience of changing my relationship to parts to a more warm, loving, understanding embrace.
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
In this training Loch guided me to experience Self love and safety as the ultimate reality, in ways that also my parts could feel. Here overburdened, exhausted manager parts could feel safe enough to find their way to a long overdue deep rest, and contracted vulnerable parts could feel the permeating Self love enough to be able to loosen their hold and begin to open up. What a lovely and life impacting experience!
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
The training helped me finally discover the loving awareness within and outside my parts, as well as have healthy expectations of the ongoing process of awakening in daily life.
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
I am pretty new to IFS, but have been practicing nondual meditation for over 25 years. IFS has been the magic key to my finally being able to authentically embrace this cast of characters (parts) that I have become so familiar with over the years. I wish I had taken this class 25 years ago. Would have saved me from a lot of suffering.
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
Using IFS through the lens of Effortless Mindfulness provides a natural, relaxed gateway to experience Self in the moment and a portal to ground, open and welcome parts. I have some training in IFS and meditation and I was so interested in how you marry the two systems and have deep appreciation for this "combo platter" I am working as a psychedelic medicine practitioner and the parts work has been so essential and gratifying. The ability for me to ground in my own Self energy is essential to this work, and I'm committed to continue to work with my own parts so I can show up in presence for others (and myself)
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
A real taste of effortless "always already" ever-nourished and ever-nourishing being: Miraculous Ordinariness!
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
I feel so grateful that Loch has put together a synthesis of traditional non-dual teachings and IFS, and in doing so has made what I've been seeking for so long, very accessible!
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
I knew almost nothing about IFS prior to this course. I now see the value of this program together with the insights from Effortless Mindfulness practices.
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
I am enriched by the experience for sure, and super encouraged for my own healing AND for my presence in relationships.
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
The workshop was very empowering. I felt that I regained some of the power I had given away. I felt safe to explore different parts that had become disenfranchised.
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
I characterize myself as an IFS client for which Loch's glimpse enabled me to awake and shift into my heart mind. Loch's work enabled me to awaken into vast spaciousness and enable my crushing struggles---while awaiting my cancer diagnosis---to dissolve and feel calm and peace at a difficult time.
~EM+IFS One Course Participant
A practical pathway to live from a place where there is nowhere to go. The sacred is ordinary and moving through it all, and we can start to see it many times every day.
~EM+IFS One Course Participant

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Meet Your Teacher

Loch Kelly IFS Training Online

Loch Kelly MDiv, LCSW is the creator of the Mindful Glimpses app, award winning author, psychotherapist, and meditation teacher known for his unique practical methods that support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Backed by modern neuroscience and psychology, Loch introduces Effortless Mindfulness, an ancient form of nondual meditation that allows immediate access to our embodied awake nature which arises as calm, clarity, and compassion.

Loch has over 30 years of clinical psychotherapy experience in community mental health and private practice. He co-teaches workshops and seminars with IFS-Founder Richard Schwartz and integrates Effortless Mindfulness techniques with Internal Family Systems therapy.

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In my many years knowing and working with Loch Kelly, I feel that he is one of the clearest expressions of authentic awakened freedom and love that I know.

~Adyashanti

Living from Awakened Self Leadership: Key Concepts & Lessons

In this unique Self-Led IFS training online, you’ll be exposed to and explore the following key concepts and practices.

1. Integrating Self Leadership and Effortless Mindfulness

  • Explore the integration of IFS and Effortless Mindfulness and how to unblend from a part when you get triggered so you can access Self immediately.
  • Understand how the ancient wisdom of Effortless Mindfulness complements contemporary Parts Work psychology.
  • How to access Loch’s 11 i’s of Self Essence as the foundation of Self Energy.

2. Living from Self Leadership

  • Explore the shared goals of living from Awake Loving Flow with nondual meditation and Self Leadership in IFS.
  • Understand how these concepts align and mutually support each other.

3. IFS Style Tools and Insights

  • Practical techniques you can immediately bring into your professional practice.
  • Discover the missing link for stabilizing awakening through Self-led IFS tools and insights.
  • Learn how to integrate Self-Leadership into your daily life beyond weekly therapy sessions.
  • Learn how to use a unique version of IFS’s 6 F’s to find Self.

4. The Healing Dimension of Consciousness

  • Break down the steps of Effortless Mindfulness and IFS so that you and/or your clients can access the various modes of healing consciousness individually and on demand.
  • How to distinguish subtle body energy and empathy from Self-Energy.

5. Seminar on “Self”

  • Distinguish between self-like parts and Self.
  • Learn the 4 most common Self-like parts we get trapped in.
  • Engage in experiential exercises focusing on parts and awareness.

6. Accessing Self in IFS and Effortless Mindfulness Awakening Training (EMAT )

  • Understand the essence of Self and its universal presence within everyone.
  • Learn to shift from the ego manager into Self.
  • Navigate the pitfalls of spiritual bypass, psychological underpass, intellectual overpass, and meditative rest stops.

7. Experiential Alternative to Psychedelic Therapies

  • The Effortless Mindfulness Approach is a groundbreaking alternative or compliment to traditional psychedelics. Loch has done qualitative research using similar questionnaires to show almost identical results using an IFS/Effortless Mindfulness protocol. We will explore the findings and questionnaire.

Who Should Take this EM+IFS Self-Paced Training?

  • 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
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How EM+IFS Can Change Your Life

ACCESS YOUR SELF

As a foundation for facing life’s many challenges.

BUILD RESILIENCE AND STRENGTH

when in distress or emotional turmoil.

HEAL

wounds of self-criticism, trauma, self-doubt, and shame.

FIND NEW MEANING AND FULFILLMENT

                 in your life, even if you are currently struggling.

IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

with partners, friends, and family.

BE A BETTER CAREGIVER

for your children, aging parents, and your clients.

What Kind of Research Supports the Efficacy of Effortless Mindfulness?

These research papers explore the benefits of Effortless Mindfulness.

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FAQ

Do I need to have any previous experience in Effortless Mindfulness or IFS?

Previous experience is not required for this. Loch will cover key concepts for both streams of practice.

Are there CE Credits offered for this Self-Led IFS Training Online?

This training is not offering CE credits at this time.

How does this Course work?

The course sessions will include a mix of pre-recorded talks, Q&A, applied IFS-style inquiry and exercises, and guided meditations. 

Do I have to attend every session?

Because this is a self-paced course, you can watch or listen to all the recordings at your own speed.

How long do I have access to the Self-Led IFS Training Online?

You will receive immediate lifetime access to the course recordings and materials.

What equipment is required?

This IFS Training Online is fully virtual. You will need access to the internet and a computer or smart device to engage with the content.

What’s your refund and/or transfer policy?

We do not offer refunds for this product. 

Do you offer scholarships?

Unlike our live courses, we currently don’t offer scholarships for this self-paced course.

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