Internal Family Systems: Healing Relational Patterns Within and Beyond with Richard Schwartz
- 28th September 2025
- New Theatre, Oxford, United Kingdom
Seating is first come first served.
Internal Family Systems: Healing Relational Patterns Within and Beyond
Join IFS founder Dr Richard Schwartz and special guests for an immersive day exploring how Internal Family Systems therapy transforms our relationships – with ourselves, others, food, our bodies, our leadership capacities, and expanded states of consciousness. Through didactic learning, demonstrations, and experiential exercises, participants will discover how the IFS model illuminates and heals the complex web of internal and external relationships that shape our lives.
This session provides powerful insights and practical tools for anyone looking to heal their relational world. Whether you’re a therapist, healthcare professional, or someone on a personal journey, you’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how trauma impacts your relationships and how to foster healing, wholeness, and connection.
What the session covers:
- Session 1 | Foundations of Internal Family Systems: A Relational Path to Self-Leadership with Richard Schwartz
- Session 2 |Healing Intergenerational Wounds: Understanding Legacy Burdens through IFS with Richard Schwartz and special guest Deran Young
- Session 3 |Nurturing Our Relationship with Food and Body: An IFS Perspective with Jeanne Catanzaro
- Session 4 |IFS and Psychedelics: Expanding Relational Consciousness with Richard Schwartz
Learning objectives
By the end of this full day IFS session, participants will be able to
- Identify the three primary categories of parts (managers, firefighters, exiles) and explain how they develop in relationship to attachment and early experiences.
- Describe the qualities of Self-energy and its role in fostering healthy relationships both internally and externally.
- Define legacy burdens within the IFS framework and identify their impact on relational patterns and attachment.
- Apply IFS techniques to work with parts carrying intergenerational trauma and support the restoration of healthy relational patterns.
- Recognise common protective parts that emerge around food and body image and their relationship to attachment history and other traumatic experiences.
- Apply IFS techniques to help clients cultivate more harmonious relationships with the parts of themselves that carry burdens related to food in the body.
- Describe how IFS principles can be applied to prepare for and integrate psychedelic experiences within a therapeutic context.
- Identify ways that psychedelic experiences can facilitate access to Self-energy and promote healing of relational trauma.
Secure Your Place Today with Richard Schwartz
Join an immersive, full-day session led by Richard Schwartz, a highly respected authority in psychotherapy and the creator of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. Alongside Deran Young and Jeanne Catanzaro, this exclusive event is crafted for a wide audience, providing comprehensive learning to deepen your understanding and equip you with practical tools for immediate application. Connect with like-minded individuals, enrich your insight into the mind’s inner workings, and gain transformative perspectives to enhance your approach to mental health and healing.
- Gain practical tools to enhance your practices
- Expand your knowledge on trauma, addiction, and relational healing through immersive learning
- Opportunity to meet and network with like-minded peers and experts
