Fostering Intimacy: Growing our Capacity for Connection

A 16-week, in-person group exploring intimate relationship using IFS

Wednesdays, February 26-June 18th, 2025

(no group May 7th, May 14th group online)

7:00 - 8:45 pm, Bellingham, WA

For individuals who want to explore their inner world in the context of intimate relationships of all kinds, including parenting, friendship, family, or partnership using the Internal Family Systems Model.

What are you longing for in connection? And what gets in the way?

Bringing the IFS lens to the parts that show up in relationships, this group will support you to:

Identify how and why your protector parts get activated in relationships
Uncover the strategies these parts use and how they get in the way of authentic and satisfying connection
Discover the origins of these strategies and understand their positive intentions
Learn how to support and heal parts that block intimacy
Practice sourcing your worthiness and safety from inside yourself
Deepen in self-regulation and Self-leadership
Release personal and legacy burdens of individualism, relational fear, patterns of enmeshment or distancing, and more
Develop new communication practices that invite intimacy
Create new pathways for safer, courageous, and more open-hearted connection

This 16-week experiential group for individuals (no couples or bonded pairs) may involve dyad work, guided practices, individual work, and group processes. As the facilitator, Wren is committed to co-creating an inclusive, culturally responsive, trauma-informed container that is neurodiversity affirmative and anti-oppressive. They welcome people of any age, race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, ability, relationship orientation, language and cultural background.

This course will be most beneficial if one has some basic understanding of the IFS framework of parts or multiplicity of mind. This can include IFS Level 1, Stepping Stones, listening to podcasts, or reading books such as Listening When Parts Speak, No Bad Parts or Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts.

Group maximum is 8 participants. Admission to the group requires a short consultation to check for fit. Email wrenwood77@gmail.com with questions or interest or fill out the form below.

Exchange:
Standard Exchange: $880 total
Equity Exchange: $720*
*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. Please inquire.

Testemonial from past participants:

“I have participated in many different types of healing modalities and this group has impacted me in a way no other group experience has before. I learned new and powerful ways to connect with myself and my experience while being whole-heartedly supported by Wren and the other group members. This work is tender, deep, and offers a lot to take with you in day to day life. I'm so grateful for this offering and highly recommend it to anyone wanting more experience with IFS and parts therapy.”

“Wren is uniquely skilled in facilitating authentic connection between group members and between parts of ourselves with our Self-energy. The sculpting practices bring our parts to life and offer a potent healing opportunity. I would recommend this group to anyone!”

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. This work does not replace medical, psychotherapeutic or psychiatric diagnosis and treatment by a medical doctor, psychotherapist or psychiatrist.