Fostering Intimacy: Bringing Self into Connection

An 8-week group exploring intimate relationship using IFS

Thursdays 1:30 PDT  April 13 - June 1, 2023

For individuals who want to explore Internal Family Systems (IFS) in the context of intimate relationships of all kinds, including parenting, friendship, family, or partnership (monogamous or non-monogamous)

Through applying IFS to relationships with the model Intimacy from the Inside Out,™ this group will support you to:

• Identify how and why your protector parts get activated in relationships

• Uncover the coping strategies these parts use and how they get in the way of authentic and satisfying connection

• Discover the origins of these coping strategies and understand their original positive intentions

• Learn how to make a “U-Turn” and unblend 

• Deepen in self-regulation and Self-leadership

• Release personal and legacy burdens

• Develop new skills for speaking and listening in ways that can foster intimacy

• Create new pathways for safer, courageous, and more open-hearted connection

• Discover how intimate relationship itself can be a vehicle for growth and healing

This 8-week experiential practice group for individuals (not couples or bonded pairs) will involve small group or dyad work, guided practices, individual work, and group processes. We are committed to co-creating an inclusive, culturally responsive, trauma-informed container that is neurodiversity affirmative and anti-oppressive. We welcome people of any age, race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, ability, relationship orientation, language and cultural background. 

This course requires a basic understanding of the Internal Family Systems model. This can include Level 1, Stepping Stones, or reading books such as No Bad Parts, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts or similar books.

Group maximum is 10 participants. This group is not a fit for folks currently experiencing intimate partner violence. Admission to the group requires a short application to check for fit. Email wrenwood77@gmail.com with questions. 

Session Dates & Times:

All sessions will be held over Zoom on Thursdays at 1:30pm US PDT for 90 minutes. Please plan to attend all 8 sessions if you sign up for the group. Once you register, you will receive the Zoom link and other information. Registration closes March 31st, 2023.

April 13, 20, 27      May 4, 11, 18, 25      June 1 

Exchange: 

Standard Exchange: $800 total Equity Exchange: $650

*Equity rate is offered for Black and Indigenous people and other People of Color (BIPOC) to account for the historical and ongoing realities of racism and colonization. Additional limited number of partial scholarships and payment options available.

Course Facilitators

Georgia Faye Grammer, LMFT (she/her)

Certified IFS Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Parenting Coach. Georgia integrates IFS (Level 2) and Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFS for couples) with an eclectic range of modalities including Family Constellations, Treating Internalized Oppression, Eco-Depth Psychotherapy, attachment/relational neuroscience, Aware Parenting, and nature-based, animist and ancestral healing practices.

Wren Wood (she/they)

In private practice as a Relationship Coach and Internal Family Systems Practitioner, Wren is Level 2 trained Internal Family Systems Practitioner and trained in the couples model, Intimacy from the Inside Out. She is also a certified Integral Coach and a Course Facilitator for the Neufeld Institute. She has received the Infant Family Associate endorsement by the Washington Association of Infant Mental Health and is working on her practitioner certification through the Internal Family Systems Institute.

Important Note

This is an experiential practice group and not a therapy group. The work of this group is of a non-medical nature. This includes all help in working through and overcoming social, relational, emotional and individual conflicts, as long as these are not pathological. This work does not replace medical, psychotherapeutic or psychiatric diagnosis and treatment by a medical doctor, psychotherapist or psychiatrist. Please consult your medical doctor in case of doubt.

Internal Family Systems was created by Richard Schwartz. Intimacy from the Inside Out is the intellectual property of Toni Herbine-Blank.