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Title:  INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS: PARADIGM SHIFT IN MENTAL HEALTH?

Date/Time: October 15, 2022 from 11:30am-5:00pm EDT

Location: Online via Zoom ~ access link will be provided in the registration email

CECs: 5 CECs

Presenter: Derek Scott, RSW, IFS

Bio:

Derek Scott is an RSW and certified IFS (Internal Family Systems) therapist. He is the founder of IFSCA, an organization dedicated to teaching the IFS model to mental health professionals in Canada and beyond. He has taken the highest level of IFS training (level three) 3 times. Derek has worked in the field of counselling/therapy for over 35 years, including 15 working exclusively as an IFS therapist. He is a popular guest lecturer in the department of Thanatology at the University of Western Ontario and has presented at numerous national and international conferences. As a young counsellor his work of 18 years in the AIDS field afforded him much learning from, and a greater understanding of individuals from the LGBTQI2 and First Nation communities as well as street-involved, drug-using and other marginalised individuals such as sex-trade workers.  Incorporating methodologies from his background and training in gestalt therapy, psychodrama and sociometry, Derek brings a wealth of expertise in working with groups. He is known for his combination of compassion, insight and humour as well as his ability to facilitate engagement with the group process.

His published work includes:

“Self-led Grieving: Transitions, loss and Death” in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy

“Healing through Internal Compassion” in Techniques of Grief Therapy Assessment and Intervention

“Grief and the Internal Family System” in Principles and Practice of Grief Counseling.

“Multiplicity and Internal Family Systems Therapy – A New Paradigm?” in Psychologica

Workshop Description: 

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model is a rapidly emerging model of therapy due to the remarkable results it is showing with clients and the ease it brings to practitioners. Advocated by leaders in the fields of trauma, addiction and mental health in general this non-pathologising evidence-based modality offers practitioners the ability to facilitate a client’s own healing from distress, relieving the pressure on the practitioner and countering burnout and/or vicarious traumatization.  IFS is rooted in the understanding that the personality is multiple and operates as a system of parts with different roles, and that each individual also has a compassionate and curious “Self” (highest self/best self) that can and should lead the system. This understanding applies as much to mental health professionals as it does to clients.  Through a variety of teaching modalities including experiential exercises, guided meditations and didactic teaching, participants in the day will have the opportunity to experience their own parts as well as understand how the IFS model may be applied in their work. There will be a live demonstration of an IFS session and ongoing Q&A throughout the day.

Prices: 

Students – 25$
NCR Chapter members – 45$
CCPA members (non NCR member) – 50$
Non-CCPA members – 60$

Cancellation Policy:

  • Deadline for cancellation with full refund is October 5th, 2022 at midnight.
  • Cancellations made after this date will receive a credit for the full amount paid to be used only for future full-day workshops offered by the NCR Chapter during the 2022-2023 Speaker Series
  • Any credits not used during the 2022-2023 Speaker Series will be forfeited
  • This cancellation policy is established to ensure that costs incurred for each registrant are covered for the respective year of Speaker Series

If you are a NCR Chapter member or student, please contact Zoe at zfraser@ccpa-accp.ca to get your member or student discount!

INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS: PARADIGM SHIFT IN MENTAL HEALTH?

  • Saturday Oct 15 2022, 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Online via Zoom