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Certified Parts Work Practitioner

Collective Insight series

This comprehensive program is designed to empower participants with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to provide trauma-informed, IFS-based care to their clients.

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18 weeks / 54 hours

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January / August cohorts

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12-21 students

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Taught by IFS Level 2 & 3

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Taught by BIPOC & BIPOC allies

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$ 2,500 tuition

Course description

This 18-week course, facilitated through the Global Trauma Institute (GTI), provides a comprehensive exploration of trauma-informed care and the principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS). Led by Achara Tarfa, Level 3 Trained IFS Practitioner, this course is taught twice a year in January and August.

 

The course offers 54 hours of instruction, including 15 hours of supervised triad practice and 3 hours of personal parts mapping for each student. The course is taught by BIPOC and BIPOC allies, ensuring a diverse and inclusive learning environment. The class size is limited to a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 21 students, allowing for personalized attention and interactive learning.

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The curriculum includes a blend of didactic teaching, experiential exercises, skills building, and demonstrations, equipping participants with the knowledge and practical tools to become IFS-informed or deepen their existing expertise. After completion you will receive the designation of Certified Parts Work Practitioner.

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The course is open to social workers, therapists, counselors, coaches, and other healing professionals.

By the end of the this course you will:

  • Be more confident in the IFS model 

  • Support clients in blended and unblended states to access Self energy

  • Identify and distinguish different types of parts within a client's internal system, including protectors, exiles, and firefighters.

  • Apply Polyvagal Theory principles to understand and work with clients' nervous system states and their impact on internal parts.

  • Use skillful and embodied language to help clients communicate with and understand their different internal parts to build and establish a trust relationship with Self.

  • Detect and address polarizations within a client's internal system, helping to create more harmonious internal interactions.

  • Detect & understand transmission of legacy, cultural, and shame burdens in clients

  • Develop techniques for mapping a client's internal system, including externalizing.

  • Recognizing dissociation in the internal system.

  • Create a safe and compassionate space for clients to explore their internal parts, using curious questioning and active listening techniques.

  • Integrate somatic approaches, understanding how body-based experiences interact and inform the internal system and their protective mechanisms

  • Understand porosity and complexity of the mind in relation to guides & unattached burdens.

What you'll learn

Modules

This course consists of 18 module, it's lasting a week.

The live sessions will happen on Friday 1-3 pm ET. Recordings will be available.

The program also includes 3 practice blocks. In them students will be assigned to group triads and will meet in 90 min practice blocks with an IFS Trained Facilitator.

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  • January 24: Meet and greet (Course overview and syllabus review)

  • February 7: Review of IFS Model Basics, Parts Detecting, Demonstration with Q & A

  • February 14: Learning to Speak the Language - Embodied Reflection and Practice Group (speaking for parts) - Getting to Know Self

  • February 21: Developing Fluency in the first three F's - Demo and Practice - Getting to Know a Protector

  • February 28: Developing Fluency in the second three F's

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Practice block 1

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  • March 7: Polyvagal Theory and IFS – Understanding ANS, Hierarchy, and the Survive to Thrive Spiral

  • March 14: Addressing Firefighter Behaviors

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Break: March 21

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  • March 28: Working with Exiles Part One

  • April 4:  Working with Exiles Part Two

  • April 11: Direct Access – Implicit and Explicit

  • April 18: Working with Challenging Protectors

  • April 25: Identifying and Addressing Polarizations

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Practice block 2

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  • May 2: Working with intergenerational, cultural, religious beliefs that our parts inherited from outside of the system

  • May 9: Identifying and Working with Coaching Parts

  • May 16: Dissociation in the Internal System

  • May 23: Parts Work and Somatics

  • May 30: Introduction to Sculpting with IFS

  • June 6: Spiritual Aspects of Parts Work – Guides, Unattached Burdens, Connection of Self to the Divine

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Practice block 3

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  • June 13: Final Study Session and Wrap Up

Pre-Practitioner Immersion Content

Released after Module 12.

  • Intake Process & High-Level Overview of Competencies Video 

  • Demonstration Video - with competency observation activity

Post-training

Self scheduled practice groups in dyads/triads leading up to final coaching demonstration

  • Triad groups begin (June 7th - June 30th)

​Ongoing Business and Skills Development

Receive practical guidance and ongoing support to launch your own trauma-informed practice.  Your first 6 months of membership in the IFSCC private community is included in tuition and offers ongoing access to regular practice groups & Group Consultations with your peers and a GTI Supervisor. The first 3 months membership in the GTI Collective private community is included in tuition and offers ongoing access to quarterly CE workshops and up to 4 weekly GTI Group Consultations with your peers and a GTI Supervisor. This community is designed for you to collaborate with a like-minded professional network coming together to offer resources, support with client cases, business questions and promote ongoing learning.

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Learning format

This certification utilizes a blended learning format with:

  • Pre-released content: Access introductory videos and materials on professional standards and ethics.

  • Live online sessions: Friday 1-3 pm ET, 1 hour of didactic learning + 1 hour of collaboration labs.

  • Collaborative activities: Engage in interactive exercises during live sessions to deepen learning and build community.

  • Supervised experiential learning groups: Triads with 1 Coach, 1 Client, 1 Observer.

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The didactic portion of the course will be recorded and available for replay. The collaboration labs and experiential learning groups pen live during class or block time and if you miss them you will need to connect with other students to arrange makeup sessions.

Technical requirements

  • All classes will be held over Zoom.

  • All course content will be delivered on the GTI learning platform, hosted on LearnWorlds.

  • The GTI Collective private community group is on Facebook.

Certification requirements

To become certified as a Parts Work Practitioner you need to:

  • attend a minimum of 15 out of 18 classes,

  • complete three mandatory Practice Blocks,

  • finish 2 personal parts mapping sessions,

  • pass the final exam covering material from the live class & required texts,

  • submit one written case study demonstrating competency in Parts Work methodology,

  • complete all assigned practice triads with peer students, and

  • sign and adhere to all professional ethics agreements and policies including confidentiality agreement, scope of practice documentation, professional boundaries agreement, client safety protocols, and informed consent procedures.

 

All requirements must be completed within the course timeframe to receive certification, and students must demonstrate competency in parts identification and engagement, working with the IFS model, maintaining appropriate boundaries, trauma-informed approaches, and Self-leadership principles.

Core Competencies for Certification

Self-Leadership and Personal Awareness

1. Demonstrate Self Energy throughout sessions

  • Maintain Self-leadership while working with clients.

  • Recognize and claim own parts' interference when needed.

  • Identify and manage personal trailheads during client sessions.

Assessment and Initial Engagement

2. Help clients build relationships with their parts

  • Listen to presenting problem and identify key parts involved.

  • Use appropriate language and pacing.

  • Contract to work with focus part(s).

  • Facilitate client blending or unblending from parts.

System Mapping and Navigation

3. Guide clients in mapping their internal system

  • Identify and attend to all active protectors.

  • Support clients in accessing and maintaining Self energy.

  • Extend/increase client's Self energy to target parts.

  • Demonstrate the 6 F's effectively.

Working with Protectors

4. Recognize and address challenging protectors

  • Address fears of protectors.

  • Use direct access when appropriate.

  • Develop relationships between Self and parts.

  • Facilitate expression of Self energy to parts from Self.

Burden Recognition and Processing

5. Detect and work with legacy, systemic, cultural, and individual burdens

  • Progress through the Six Steps of Healing.

  • Witness the Exile's experience.

  • Support unburdening when appropriate.

  • Close sessions safely.

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