Dates: 6 Tuesdays
September 23, 30 and October 7, 14, 21, 28

Time: 10:00am-11:30am Pacific Time
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Fees: $250 with $125 sliding scale option

Discount: 20% off through September 3rd (use code EARTHLING)

Empowering Our Capacity to Respond Wisely without Burning Out

Parts Work is a remarkably effective, empowering, and dignifying approach to inner healing and wise leadership.

Our emotional wellbeing and planetary wellbeing are intertwined. As we tend to our inner ecosystems, we become more capable of responding to our current times with wisdom, creativity and compassion.

While there are many expressions of Parts Work that usually emphasize individual healing, this approach is specifically tailored to relate to existential planetary crises such as climate breakdown, war and genocide, political upheaval and polarization, ecological devastation, AI, injustice and othering and more.

Facilitated by Lisa Ferguson, Ph.D.

Lisa is trained in IFS (Internal Family Systems) and multiple other modalities that inform her unique integration of Parts Work for Planetary Crises. She’s worked as a coach offering a combination of parts work, somatic leadership, and engaged nonduality to leaders, changemakers, visionaries, and NGOs. Deeply listening to her clients’ experiences and years of facilitating parts work groups focused on our planetary crises and unwinding racism informs this approach.

Some of the unique integrations into her expression of parts work include training in Interpersonal Neurobiology, Effortless Mindfulness, Meditative Inquiry, Taoism, various somatic and trauma-informed practices, wellbeing-informed practices, and being mentored in the Direct Path.

Overview of Our 6 Weeks

Each session will include presentation, experiential practice, and opportunities to ask questions and interact.

Week 1: Introduction to Parts Work - An Empowering Approach to Self-Care

  • Learn the basic distinction between parts and essence

  • Get familiar with your essential wholeness essence as the key to parts work

Week 2: Deepen in Parts Work for Wellbeing

  • Discover different types of parts (managers, firefighters and exiles) and how to work with them

  • Begin to map your inner ecosystem of parts

Week 3: Big Emotions and Fractal Healing

  • Learn how Parts Work is helpful for working with challenging emotions (grief, fear, anger, numbness, helplessness)

  • Understand Fractal Healing or what to do when current systemic trauma triggers younger trauma

Week 4: “Self-Leadership” - Leading from Wholeness

  • Connect with your wellspring of essential capacities such as creativity, courage, confidence and calm

  • Engage in meditative inquiry to listen to your inner wisdom for wise action

Week 5: Reducing Conflict by Addressing Inner and Outer Polarizations

  • Learn how to work with your internal conflicting parts and dynamics

  • Practice applying parts work to outer polarizations for transformative conflict resolution

Week 6: Unburdening Painful Emotions and See Through Core Beliefs

  • Get familiar with your “action parts” that may be burdened

  • Learn how to unburden overwhelming emotions and see through core mistaken beliefs

Benefits of this Training

  • Face planetary crises with more creativity, courage and resilience

  • Reduce burnout

  • Improve your ability to collaborate and communicate well with others

  • Balance self-care and community-care

  • Increase your access capacities like compassion, wisdom, and confidence to respond skillfully and effectively in these ever-changing and challenging times

Who This is For:

Brand new to parts work: Learn the basics and how to apply to your own wellbeing and social change efforts

Parts Work professionals: Extend your scope to incorporate a focus on social/political/ecological topics whether working with individuals or groups

Change agents/activists: Discover how parts work can support you in preventing burnout, transforming conflict, and accessing deeper wisdom to guide your actions

Care about planetary crises but feeling overwhelm, stuck or helpless: Explore how you can work with these feelings and part and move toward action with clarity and greater ease

Register

This series is offered in the spirit of generosity with space reserved for those who may not have access to financial resources. If you have abundance, please pay the full fee. If it’s a struggle for you to pay, please contact Lisa, especially if you are a student, activist or otherwise have financial challenges. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Sliding Scale Guide

Inquire for reduced fees or full scholarship based on need.

Through September 3rd receive a 20% discount on the full price.
Use code: EARTHLING