Coaching IFS Protectors
The Internal Family Systems model brings about change in troubled behaviors by first healing the emotions that are beneath the behaviors. See more about that in the post “Coaching Emotions”.
Fall 2024 thoughts on Everyday Mindful Movement (coming soon!)
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Internal Family Systems Informed Integral Coaching
Video comments on the Ken Wilber chapter read aloud found below
Treatment Models for Varied Needs of Clients
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5 Ways Integral Thinking is Found in That Hideous Strength and The Left Hand of Darkness (CS Lewis and Ursula K Le Guin, respectively).
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1. Since Lewis and Le Guin have both modern and postmodern thoughts within their philosophies they are revealing the beginnings of integral thinking.
2.Both authors depict nonduality through temporary experiences of the characters in spontaneous, not contrived, transpersonal states. This looks like Christian mysticism in THS and Buddhist mysticism in LHD.
3.Lewis's characters value life as integral with love when Ransom encourages that Jane's marriage produce a baby.
4. The main characters in both stories (That Hideous Strength and The Left Hand of Darkness) have free will to choose their actions. Lewis and Le Guin both emphasize the impact of subjective desire on the world, and at the same time, confirm an objective reality where love is valued for itself. The Four Quadrants Model in Ken Wilber's integral theory of everything depict the continuous relationship between objective and subjective truth.
5. While the protagonists in LHD and THS both develop into integral thinkers (combining modernism and postmodernism), they also both retain fundamentals (not sectarian particulars) of their religious faiths.
IFS Skills for Spiritual Counselors
IFS Skills Integration for therapists, coaches and spiritual counselors. I use the interventions developed in IFS for use with the archetypes of the wounded, exiled child, the armored protectors and the Self, who often is associated with a spiritual sense of existence.
Coaching Emotion
Coaches help clients with the WHAT, HOW, WHO and WHYs of their journey. I was trained to enter the conversation in more or less that order, otherwise we can misunderstand what the client is really trying to accomplish with the coaching. It can be daunting, however, to go deeper into the emotions of a topic. Internal Family Systems shows us a way to address these vulnerable parts of the client, without entering into depths and lengths of treatmet that falls in the scope of practice of therapists. This short dip into holding space for the vulnerable emotions of the client can have profound effects on the present mental health of the client and is a valuable therapeutic skill that all coaches can learn.