Coaching with IFS 1

Using Internal Family Systems to Co-Create Healing and Awakening

This is a comprehensive professional training personal and development workshop for practitioners who want to work deeply with clients who are committed to lasting transformation.

What will I learn?

The basic principles of IFS and a clear 18-step protocol for deep healing, including how to:

  • Access your own enlightened core, which is whole, wise, loving, and good

  • Collaborate with clients in entering their internal world with curiosity and compassion

  • Understand the complex relationships of the many parts that live within all of us

  • Meet and befriend challenging protectors, known as managers and firefighters

  • Find and heal young vulnerable parts, called exiles

  • Deal with big emotions

  • Stabilize in a compassionate, non-judgmental, and agenda-less presence

All trainings are live on Zoom. We limit our classes to 36 students to provide a safe and intimate community. We welcome students from around the globe.

What will I get?

  • Greater access to your own wisdom, divinity, and sense of wellbeing 

  • Intimacy with your own internal world of parts

  • An understanding of a model that assumes you and all humans are intrinsically endowed with everything needed to heal, grow, and love

  • Proficiency in using an 18-step process for finding, witnessing, and unburdening the wounded parts of the psyche 

  • Competency and confidence to work 1:1 with clients in a healing relationship

  • Group mentoring, downloadable class recordings, and a comprehensive course manual to support your journey

  • A community of lightworkers

  • A certificate of completion indicating you’ve earned 40 ICF approved CCEs

Is this for you?

This program is for coaches, therapists, spiritual directors, and other practitioners who are seeking IFS training to integrate into their healing work. It integrates spirituality and our connection to each other, the natural world, and the divine.

You may be:

  • A practitioner that desires and IFS training that includes unburdening exiles 

  • Desire an intimate community for learning

Prerequisite:

We ask that you have training as a coach, therapist, or other practitioner with experience working one-on-one in a healing relationship.

Format

This is an intimate and interactive training comprising nine monthly two-day sessions.

Our two-day sessions (Thu, Fri) will take place April - December 2025 (dates below). All classes are in a live classroom on Zoom

Each day:

  • We meet from 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Eastern Time (New York)

  • We take two 15-minute breaks and one 60-minute meal break

Class days include presencing practices, teaching, demonstrations, debriefs, Q&A, peer practice, and mentoring.

Our goal is to provide a learning environment that is structured, open, inclusive, and energizing. Our community is connected, compassionate, and playful.

The training includes three 75-minute Q&A sessions held on Tuesdays from 6:00 to 7:15 pm Eastern Time (New York).

Your commitment

Attend at least 14, and preferably all 18 class days . Exceptions are given with instructor pre-approval.

For classes missed, watch the class recordings.

The Tuesday Q&A sessions are optional, though attendance is encouraged.

Keep pace with the assigned reading in the class manual.

Meet with your practice partner(s) at least three times between classes.

Support for your journey

Nine live two-day sessions

Learn live with Guthrie Sayen and Barti Bourgault. Experience meditations, clear teaching, demos, and Q&A.

CIFS manual

Receive a comprehensive manual to help you integrate your learning.

Downloadable recordings

All live sessions are recorded and can be watched afterwards.

16 hours of group mentoring

Mentors provide feedback on your skills according to the IFS protocol.

Certificate of completion plus 40 ICF CCEs pending approval

Session dates/times

All class days run from 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Eastern Time (New York) on Zoom

Session 1: Apr 17 - 18, 2025

Session 2: May 15 - 16, 2025

Session 3: Jun 12 - 13, 2025

Session 4: Jul 24 - 25, 2025

Session 5: Aug 14 - 15, 2025

Session 6: Sep 11 - 12, 2025

Session 7: Oct 9 - 10, 2025

Session 8: Nov 13 - 14, 2025

Session 9: Dec 11 - 12, 2025

Q&A dates/times

All Q&A sessions run Tuesdays 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Eastern Time (New York) on Zoom

Q&A 1: May 6, 2025

Q&A 2: Aug 26, 2025

Q&A 3: Nov 25, 2025

Join our circle of learning and love

Class size limited to 36 student. Enroll early to guarantee your spot.

Early-bird special: Pay in full

Enroll by Feb 15, 2025
Save $500
$4,450

$3,950

Early-bird special: Six installments

Enroll by Feb 15, 2025
Save $250

$4,450

$4,200

Initial downpayment to reserve your spot: $1,200

Five monthly installments

$600