Elevate is an advanced training program for experienced coaches
Expand your range, deepen your presence, and unlock new ways of working with clients using the Internal Family Systems model. Join a cohort of twelve participants for extraordinary personal development and professional training. Prepare to utilize IFS with grounded, attuned presence.
Meet Your Trainers
Rachel Fink Parks, MS
For over 20 years, Rachel has been a guiding light for executives, entrepreneurs and coaches committed to creating greater success and genuine fulfillment. Her coaching goes beyond strategy. It’s a transformative journey that empowers clients to unlock their highest potential with clarity and confidence. Working with Rachel enables high performers across the globe to make a bigger impact while experiencing greater harmony in their lives.
At the heart of her work is the recognition that achieving one’s personal best requires an inner as well as an outer journey. Rachel draws on a variety of tools and modalities to meet her clients exactly where they are and guide them into who they are capable of becoming. The business owners, corporate executives, and change-makers she works with experience profound shifts that ripple through their organizations and lives. They consistently report increased effectiveness, deeper satisfaction, and an expanded capacity to produce results that previously seemed out of reach.
Bill Tierney, Certified IFS Practitioner
Bill Tierney is a Certified IFS Practitioner with advanced training from the IFS Institute. He has written four IFS coaching workbooks -True Self Leadership (2019), The Self-led Project (2021), Self-led Results (2023), and Compassionate Results Guidebook (2025). He is coauthor of the forthcoming Parts Work Guidebook (2025) and is writing his memoir Rage (2026).
Bill began coaching in 2011 while working in mortgages. In 2015, after completing Accomplishment Coaching’s Seattle program, he left that career to coach full time. The struggles of training led him to therapy, where an IFS practitioner helped him discover innate confidence through Self-energy. Drawn to the model, he began IFS training in 2019. Since becoming certified in the IFS model, Bill has continued his training, completing the IFSCA Stepping Stones program and currently participating in the Institute for Healing and Awakening IFS for Coaching program. Bill has also assisted in IFS trainings as a Program Assistant.
Bill cofounded Parts Work Practice, a free weekly IFS group which hosts half-day conferences and has now been running for nearly five years. He cohosts the True You Podcast, leads five IFS-based coaching groups - including programs for practitioners- and continues to coach individuals using his Compassionate Results framework.
For Coaches That Sense There’s Something More
The program is limited to twelve seasoned coaches who already do transformational work and are committed to expanding their impact even further. In a safe and intimate container, you will experience a profound personal transformation. You will learn how to form compassionate relationships with the “burdened” parts of yourself using the Internal Family Systems model. As you do so, you will gain more access to the resources and qualities of your highest and best Self. Expert training, supervision, and practice will enable you to integrate IFS into your coaching practice so you can model and facilitate the same transformational process for your clients.
ELEVATE is a unique program, blending the evidence-based methodology of IFS with the power and possibility of transformational coaching.
As you learn to integrate the IFS model into your coaching practice, your clients will find new freedom and power. IFS will help you:
Awaken new possibilities and energy within clients and their lives
Understand and liberate the patterns and strategies that keep clients from shifting
Unburden your clients from the old beliefs and unhealed experiences that hold them back
Transform clients’ harsh inner voices into helpful allies
Untangle clients’ inner conflicts to experience greater clarity, confidence and courage
Empower clients to live with greater self-love and inner peace
Release resources and invite qualities within your client that have been waiting beneath the surface all along
Recognize and free the parts of yourself that interfere with your grounded and clear coaching presence
Free up internal space in you and in your clients for greater ease, joy, creativity and play
Expand access to the calm, wise and loving Self within you and within your clients
Experience more authentic connection to yourself, to others, and life as a whole and model this for your clients
Create and maintain inspiration for your purpose-driven work
The Self-led Coach
What happens when you integrate IFS with great coaching?
The result transcends transformation.
Until you’ve experienced IFS for yourself, it’s hard to imagine the difference it makes. The goal of the IFS model is Self-leadership. Using IFS, coaches become “Self-led”- they lead their lives and support their clients from who they really are - their true, authentic Selves. And that energy is powerful. It’s called Self-energy and it is contagious. Self-leadership ENERGIZES coaching - it awakens clarity and compassion in the coach because it embraces whatever the client brings -
Their self-sabotage, their procrastination, their resistance, their fears and worries, their anxiety, their challenges, their caution, their self-defeat and discouragment, their confusion, and their distractions.
Whatever the client brings, the Self-led coach has room for it. The Self-led coach embraces the client - actually meets them where they are - and helps them understand themselves in ways that they never had. Does the Self-led coach have superpowers? YES! Because they are coaching from Self.
Designed for Experienced Coaches
This program is built for coaches who:
Already have a strong foundation and years of experience
Want to integrate IFS into their coaching practice
Work with clients who sometimes stay stuck despite good coaching
Are ready to elevate their impact and effectiveness
Prefer an approach rooted in curiosity, clarity, and compassion
By the end of this program, you’ll have:
A fresh perspective on what keeps clients from moving forward
Practical tools to work with patterns that block change
More confidence in handling the coaching moments that used to feel heavy
New ways to see yourself and your clients — with more clarity and compassion
An approach that works when traditional coaching isn’t enough
This isn’t about replacing the way you coach — it’s about expanding it. You’ll leave with a deeper sense of mastery and a new set of tools to support your clients where they need it most.
Even Great Coaches Get Stuck With Their Clients Sometimes
You already know how to coach. You’ve honed your craft, built your skills, and helped countless clients make meaningful changes. But every coach - no matter how experienced - hits moments where the work stalls.
Your clients come to you because they want something different in their lives, but sometimes even the best tools and strategies aren’t enough. They get blocked. They circle the same patterns. And despite your best efforts, the breakthroughs don’t happen.
These aren’t failures. They’re signs that something deeper is going on beneath the surface — and that’s where IFS comes in.
When Coaching Hits a Wall
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model opens a new door when coaching reaches its limits. Instead of trying to push clients past resistance, you learn how to meet what’s underneath it — the protective patterns, unspoken fears, and younger parts of your clients that are quietly driving behavior.
IFS gives you:
A new lens for understanding your clients when they feel stuck
Practical tools to help loosen patterns that keep them looping
A way to help clients access their own untapped resources
More ease and clarity in your coaching conversations
When you integrate IFS into your practice, the “hard stuff” starts to feel lighter — for you and for your clients.
Experience IFS in Action
See how IFS changes the way you coach — and learn more about our upcoming training program.
Registration is now open for our free three-hour workshop designed for experienced coaches who want to see what IFS can add to their practice.
During this session, you’ll:
Watch a live demonstration of the IFS model applied in a coaching context
See how IFS helps coaches move through the stuck places where traditional tools often fall short
Learn what makes this training program different — and why it works
Ask questions and connect directly with the facilitators
Whether or not you choose to enroll in the full training, this workshop will give you practical insights and a fresh way of looking at your clients — and yourself.
Date: Friday, October 24
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific
Where: Live on Zoom
Can’t join us live? Get the replay and program details when you join the interest list.
Learn, Practice, Integrate
The program blends teaching, live demonstrations, and guided practice so you can learn IFS concepts and immediately put them to use. You’ll work alongside a cohort of experienced coaches, developing the skills to integrate IFS into real coaching sessions.
You’ll leave not only with new tools — but with the confidence to use them effectively.
Logistics
Your training program begins on March 26 and ends December 4, 2026
Training days go from 9am to 4pm Pacific
Nine two-day modules: March 26-27, April 23-24, May 28-29, June 25-26, July 30-31, August 27-28, Sept 24-25, Oct 29-30, Dec 3-4
We will meet on Zoom
All sessions will be recorded and available if you miss a module or a day.
We will apply for CCE credits, but outcome is unknown at this point
Money
Program Cost: $13,500 when paid in full by February 26, 2026, $3500 minmum deposit to hold your seat.
Early Bird Registration: $12,000 when paid in fulll by December 31, 2025
Payment Options:
Four monthly payments of $3200 when first payment is made by December 31, 2025 ($12,800)
Four monthly payments of $3500 when first payment is made after December 31, 2025 ($14,000)
Refund Policy:
100% refund if you withdraw by January 1, 2026
90% refund if you withdraw by February 1, 2026
80% refund if you withdraw by March 1, 2026
70% refund if you withdraw by April 1, 2026
40% refund if you withdraw by May 1, 2026
No refunds after May 1, 2026
Experience IFS in Action
See how IFS changes the way you coach — and learn more about our upcoming training program.
Registration is now open for our free three-hour workshop designed for experienced coaches who want to see what IFS can add to their practice.
During this session, you’ll:
Watch a live demonstration of the IFS model applied in a coaching context
See how IFS helps coaches move through the stuck places where traditional tools often fall short
Learn what makes this training program different — and why it works
Ask questions and connect directly with the facilitators
Whether or not you choose to enroll in the full training, this workshop will give you practical insights and a fresh way of looking at your clients — and yourself.
Date: Friday, October 24
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific
Where: Live on Zoom
Can’t join us live? Get the replay and program details when you join the interest list.
Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers.
Do I need prior IFS training?
No. We’ll teach you the fundamentals and how to integrate them into your coaching.
Is this a certification program?
Not yet, but you’ll earn CCE credits through the ICF for completing the training.How is this different from traditional coach training?
We assume you already know how to coach. This program builds on your mastery by adding IFS tools that make coaching easier and more effective.