Led by Loch Kelly, M.Div, LCSW, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and Mindful Glimpses App creator
Calling all IFS and parts work practitioners and meditation enthusiasts looking for a mindfulness approach to deepen their personal work and their work with clients. This immersive experience is designed for people who are passionate about both IFS and Effortless Mindfulness and want to fuse these two practices.
Learn how to access your awake mind and authentic Self to heal your wounded parts with EM+IFS.
In this 2-Day workshop, you’ll learn a unique approach to healing, growth, and awakening through a unique form of nondual Internal Family Systems or EM+IFS.
If you meditate then you’ve likely experienced the feeling of freedom from the small self or contracted ego. If you’ve experienced parts work before or worked with an IFS therapist, you’ve already tasted the promise of the IFS model.
Effortless Mindfulness provides you with an essential missing link:
>> How to consistently and confidently connect with your authentic Self or Awake Mind.
Through this training and practice, you’ll learn how to confidently connect with Self and the different parts of your mind. Loch will guide you, step-by-step, through a powerful protocol that you can practice on your own.
This series of experiential steps is designed to lead you from your Ego Manager into the calm, clear, compassionate heart of Self-Leadership.
Indeed, in EM+IFS, we start with the solution—Self—before working with parts. Why? Because we can’t heal our parts from our parts. We can only heal parts from Self.
In this training, you’ll discover how to bring the natural healing qualities of Self to your troubling inner voices, compulsive distractions, and feelings of vulnerability, inadequacy, and overwhelm.
We can unburden these parts of the psyche when we approach them from the Self, with its natural respect, patience, and boundless compassion. Self loves and offers protection to all parts of us.
And this is a key difference of EM+IFS. Everything starts with the effortless shift into Self. Here are some markers of Loch’s 11 i’s of Self Essence (Awake Aware Mind) to go along with 8 c’s of Self Energy and 5 P’s of Self Leadership
Have you longed and strived to access your authentic Self, but find that it still feels elusive?
This is more common than you might imagine. Most people struggle to experience Self—not because they lack desire or commitment but because they don’t know where to look or what to look with. Hoping that Self organically arises isn’t always available to all of us. So, what do we do then?
One reason we can’t find, see, or understand Self is because Self is not an “it.” Self is not an object or thing that can be seen, heard, touched, smelled, tasted, or known by thought. It isn’t an emotion, image, belief, thought, sensation, or even energy.
I like to say that trying to know Self with thought is like trying to use our eyes to hear music.
But you CAN know Self. Just not in the way you might think :).
You see, IFS is a revolutionary approach to psychology. And it’s amazing when it comes to the subtle and cathartic world of parts work. It has an elegant and detailed map of parts but not such a clear way to access and experience your ever-present Self.
And as you know, Self is an essential ingredient when doing effective parts work and cultivating a harmonious inner system.
That’s where Effortless Mindfulness (EM) comes in.
In the same way that IFS helps you access parts, EM gives you the tools to effortlessly shift into Self.
How is this possible? In this weekend workshop, I’m not only going to show you. I’m going to teach you how to do it yourself.
In the end, we can simply say that Self is the subtlest essential foundation of our human consciousness, which we all share, regardless of beliefs. And it is learnable, teachable and liveable!
So I hope you’ll join me for this deep dive into awakening, healing, and the next potential stage of human growth.
With a grateful,
Loch
“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, IFS Founder
8 Hours of Live Expert Training
Including live lectures, mindful glimpses, and guided meditations with Loch Kelly
Daily Q&A Sessions
Loch will answer your questions about IFS and Effortless Mindfulness.
Lifetime Access
Receive lifetime access to all video trainings, guided meditations, workbooks, and bonus materials—the entire course is yours to keep forever.
As a foundation for facing life’s many challenges.
when in distress or emotional turmoil.
wounds of self-criticism, trauma, self-doubt, and shame.
in your life, even if you are currently struggling.
with partners, friends, and family.
for your children, aging parents, and your clients.
In this training, you’ll learn how to navigate through the Six Locations of Self.
Richard Schwartz speaks about Self in many different ways and uses the concepts of Self Energy and Self Leadership. Loch adds Self Essence and Self Embodiment to the mix in describing the journey from ego manager to Self Leadership and when talking about the different markers of Self in IFS.
Self-essence (Awake Mind) is the way we experience Self with awake awareness or pure Self. This is the authentic fundamental nature of who we are.
Self Embodiment (Unity Mind) is also called Same Taste, Being, and Inter-Being. It’s the experience of the union of formless awareness and embodiment.
In this two-day immersion, we’re going to learn the territory. And just as Dick Schwartz has elegantly mapped out parts, Loch will teach you how to know and clearly distinguish Self in your own experience.
In this training, we’re going to:
In this training, we’re not going to:
This workshop does not include an introduction to IFS or Effortless Mindfulness, and it assumes a basic knowledge of Loch Kelly’s teachings. This will allow you to work in depth with the obstacles on your path from the always already-free ground of Self-Leadership.
This training is not offering CE credits at this time.
The course sessions will include a mix of live talks, Q&A, applied IFS-style inquiry and exercises, and guided meditations.
No, we will provide replays for all sessions so you can take it at your own pace.
You will receive lifetime access to the course recordings and materials.
This workshop is fully online. You will need access to the internet and a computer or smart device to participate.
We do not offer refunds for this product.
Yes, scholarships are available. If you are a student or want to request a hardship discount, please click the Enroll button above and fill out the scholarship application on the checkout page.
It takes us about two weeks to finish post-production on the training videos and then we’ll post them in your course area.
The first two trainings offer the EM+IFS theory and the map. The 2025 workshop will offer an experiential retreat-style immersion with the EM+IFS synthesis.
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