MEADOWS: The Healing Power of Self: Join Meadows Senior Fellow, Richard Schwartz , PhD on a Journey of Self Compassion – Richard Schwartz

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During this unprecedented time, difficult emotions of fear and anxiety can be triggered and have an array of effects on all of our parts. Recognizing the fear and embracing it, is a way to start the healing process. Drawn from his Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, Dr. Schwartz teaches that the Self represents the seat of consciousness and what each person is at the core. The more we can access Self and relate to our suffering with kindness and compassion – not criticism and judgment – we can promote an internal system harmony that often results in positive thoughts and behaviors in our external life and promotes life-changing healing.  

Speaker

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD 
IFS Institute
Richard Schwartz, PhD began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief, and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called “parts.” These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s.

IFS is now evidence-based and has become a widely-used form of psychotherapy, particularly with trauma. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and more recently, corporations and classrooms.

In 2013, Schwartz left the Chicago area and now lives in Brookline, MA where he is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Richard Schwartz is the Founder and President of the IFS Institute. He maintains a private practice and has a employment relationship with Harvard Medical School. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Schwartz receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Richard Schwartz is a fellow of Meadows Behavioral Healthcare and is a member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy. He is a contributing editor for Family Therapy Networker. Dr. Schwartz serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, the Contemporary Family Therapy, the Journal of Family Psychotherapy, and the Family Therapy Collections.

Objectives

1. Review the IFS concept of SELF and its role and effectiveness as a leader in the system.  
2. Describe the concept of releasing uncomfortable feelings and beliefs, which allows harmony and balance in the inner system. 
3. Identify the qualities of SELF: curiosity, compassion, confidence, courage, clarity, creativity, connectedness 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Nurses

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