Learn Practical IFS Tools You Can Use Right Away
September 20, 8:00 AM to Noon PDT
Online on Zoom • $49
Use code PWPC10 to get $10 off. Until August 31 only.
This is the event to take your IFS parts work to new levels of meaning and impact
Unlock the Power of Internal Family Systems in Just One Day
Step into an unforgettable, live experience that brings the IFS model to life in real-time. This exclusive, four-hour interactive workshop isn’t just about learning - it’s about transformation.
Led by IFS-trained practitioners, you’ll…
Gain hands-on experience through live Parts Work demonstrations and powerful practice sessions.
Choose up to three immersive workshops tailored to your need
Select your sessions the day of the event.
Whether you're just beginning your IFS journey or deepening your practice, this workshop will equip you with practical tools, meaningful insights, and a sense of connection you won’t find anywhere else.
Space is limited. Don’t miss your chance to join a supportive, growth-oriented community and walk away with tools you can use immediately.
Workshops
Tools to help create understanding, cohesion, and healing for our inner landscape, reactions, and default survival protection responses, during challenging times.
Befriending Your Inner Parts in Stressful Times
Presented by:
Islena Faircrest
Somatic therapist and yoga educator since 2000, Islena Faircrest is a trauma-informed Internal Family Systems trained practitioner and interpersonal somatic attachment therapist. She facilitates learning secure relational connection, repairing attachment injury, and helping individuals & families in their healing journey towards empowered living. She's a mother of two young adults, and a caregiver to her physically handicapped elderly mother, (while navigating menopause), and understands sandwich generation pressure from lived experience, as well as how to grow internal resources and resilience in the face of challenge and adversity.
Shame: Protector, Exile, or Both?
Parts that feel shame are often more complex than we first notice. Learn how a shame part may actually have more than one sub-part, and therefore more than one role in our systems.
Presented by:
Brian Jones
Brian Jones is a Level 1 trained IFS therapist. He has volunteered as a Practice Assistant in the Parts Work Practice group since early 2024, and as a Program Assistant in IFS Institute Level 1 training. Brian works in private practice, specializing in religious trauma and adjacent issues such as shame, grief, relationship and family-of-origin issues. As someone who was raised in fundamentalist religion, Brian brings his lived experience as someone who inherited complicated feelings of shame and guilt through adolescence and adulthood.
Learning How Managers Protect Us From Feeling Emotional Pain
What motivates protectors. Let's get curious about our protectors, when do they show up? And why do the show up? Let's get to know them and gain an understanding of how they are trying to help us.
Presented by:
Leslie Lumsden
IFS Level 2 trained practitioner offering online sessions to explore and heal your inner world. I believe every part has a story and purpose, and I create a safe, supportive space to uncover these narratives. My IFS journey began in 2014, and I’ve witnessed the profound healing it brings. My client-centered approach fosters self-awareness, self-compassion, and empowerment. Committed to ongoing growth, I continue deepening my skills in IFS and related modalities. I offer a free 20-minute consultation to see if we’re a good fit. I’d be honored to support your journey of healing and self-discovery.
Mediating Internal Conflict
Internal Conflict between polarized parts can burn up a lot of energy and leave you second guessing. This interactive workshop will help you mediate the conflict between parts.
Presented by:
Bill Tierney
Cofounder of Parts Work Practice, Certified IFS Practitioner, Compassionate Results Coach, and author of The Compassionate Results Guidebook. He began coaching in 2011 and became certified in IFS in 2021. Bill founded Parts Work Practice, where he leads five IFS-based groups—including two for coaches, therapists, and practitioners—and offers individual coaching. He helps people recover their true selves through the IFS model, drawing on over four decades of personal development since getting sober in 1982. He is also co-author of the forthcoming Partswork Guidebook.
I Know Better... So Why Do I Keep Doing That?
For women ready to understand why change has felt so hard (and how to make it easier)
This experiential workshop explores the invisible tug-of-war between the changes you’re trying to make—and the patterns that keep pulling you back. You’ll be invited into a space of honest noticing, gentle curiosity, and new insight into why things haven’t shifted the way you hoped they would.
Presented by:
Peggy Popielarz
I’m Peggy Popielarz, a Self-Led Results Coach and Level 1 trained IFS practitioner, mentored by Bill Tierney. For over a decade, I owned and operated my local health food store while practicing holistic health in multiple certified modalities. These days, I work with deeply feeling, heart-centered women drawn to the holistic wellness world - often practitioners, coaches, or space holders themselves - who give so much to others yet find it hard to turn that same care inward. Together, we uncover why the relief you’ve been seeking never seems to last — so feeling good becomes where you live, not something you’re always searching for.
Parts at Work: Career and Leadership Through an IFS Lens
Explore the parts that shape your relationship to career, business, and leadership. This experiential workshop will help you connect with these parts and move you forward with greater clarity, compassion, and Self-leadership.
Presented by:
Jesse Schuhlein
Jesse supports midlife professionals who are seeking more meaning and alignment in their work. Formerly an engineering leader and executive in a fast-growing tech company, Jesse now helps others navigate career transitions using an Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed approach. He is trained in IFS through IFSCA’s Stepping Stone program, holds an ACC credential with the International Coaching Federation, and is trained in Leadership and Performance Coaching.
IFS in Love – Turning Toward Your Self to Connect Better
You have an understanding of your own parts and how Self energy helps inner harmony. But in a fight with your partner, things get challenging! Learn how the “YOU-turn” can give you more choice in how you respond in a conflict.
Presented by:
Andrea Feucht
Andrea Feucht is a Level 2 IFS Practitioner and IFIO (Intimacy From the Inside Out) Certified Practitioner, working with individuals and couples over Zoom from the lovely state of Utah. She’s a middle-aged neurodiverse athlete, currently obsessed with learning the ukulele.
Conference Schedule
Choose Your Own Path to Healing
Throughout the conference, trained IFS practitioners will offer a variety of immersive one-hour breakout workshops—each focused on a different aspect of Parts Work and the IFS model. You’ll get to choose up to three sessions that speak most to you, right on the day of the event.
Whether you're drawn to topics like working with protectors, accessing Self energy, or healing from inner conflict, each workshop is designed to create real insight and embodied change.
This is not passive learning—these sessions are practical, experiential, and transformational. You won’t just understand IFS more deeply. You’ll feel the shift.
Come curious. Leave changed.
Choose which workshop you will attend during each round.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to pre-register for breakout sessions?
No. Breakout rooms will be numbered and identified to match the descriptions on this page. For example, Bill Tierney’s presentation, Mediating Internal Conflict will be in Breakout Room #4. When it is time to go to the breakout rooms, you will select room #4 if you wish to participate in Bill Tierney’s presentation. It would a good idea to plan in advance, but you are free to change you mind and choose the room you want.
Can I change my mind once I join a session?
No. Once a Workshop round has begun, if you leave the workshop you selected, you will be sent to a waiting room until the end of the round. If you select the wrong room by accident, go back to the waiting room within the first five minutes of a round. Our zoom tech will then send you to the room you intended. But after the first five minutes, it will be too disruptive to enter a session in progress.
Can I participate in the same session more than once?
Yes. This might make sense if you want to explore another part using the same process.
Will sessions be recorded?
No, due to the sensitive and private nature of possible shares, we have opted not to record breakout room sessions.
Is breakout room size limited?
No, facilitators will accomodate the room regardless of group size.