Parts Work Practice Wednesday Information
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The focus for this practice session will be:
Concerned Parts
This exercise helps you recognize and respond to concerned parts—those that step in with judgments, resistance, or agendas when you're trying to connect with a vulnerable or target part. Concerned parts may block access to Self-energy and create internal pressure to fix, suppress, or avoid parts they view as problematic.
You’ll begin by recalling a moment when you felt embarrassed and identifying the embarrassed part as your target part. Then, you’ll check in to see how you feel toward that part. If you notice feelings like pity, dislike, or urgency to fix, a concerned part is likely present.
The exercise then guides you to shift your focus to this concerned part. You’ll ask what it fears, what it wants you to understand, and whether it can relax enough to let you reconnect with the target part.
This practice strengthens Self-leadership by honoring all parts—including those that step in to protect or control.
Exciting Update for Our Parts Work Practice Community
Over the past five years, the exercises we’ve used in our Parts Work Practice sessions have been shared in PDF form so we could gather feedback from all of you. Thanks to your participation, insights, and reflections, the PartsWork Guidebook has now been submitted to the publisher and is entering its final editing stages!
As we move toward publication, the publisher has asked that we no longer distribute the exercises as PDFs. From now on, the exercises will still be fully guided and facilitated during our practice sessions, but they will no longer be shared in downloadable form.
We are deeply grateful to everyone who has attended sessions, offered feedback, and helped shape this Guidebook. Your contributions over the past five years have made this possible.
You’ll still have the opportunity to experience these exercises in every practice session, and once the Guidebook is published, it will be available for purchase so you can have a complete, beautifully edited version to reference anytime.
Thank you for being part of this journey with us—we couldn’t have done it without you!
Important Details:
The group meets from 5:00 to 6:15 PM Pacific on Wednesdays via Zoom Video Conferencing.
The main room will be opened at 2 minutes before the hour so we can start the meditation on the hour.
The meeting will be locked by 5:10 PM (Pacific) so plan to join before that time. Those who lose internet connection after this time will not be able to rejoin. So be sure you have a strong internet connection so we don’t lose you.
Parts Work Practice sessions are never recorded.
We introduce people to a self-healing journey using The Internal Family Systems model (IFS).
This is not a therapy group, nor is it a 12-Step group. It is not an IFS-sponsored or endorsed group and is not intended to replace IFS training. In this no-cost practice group, we discuss and facilitate the practice of exercises we have created to help you practice connecting with and getting to know your parts.
What you can expect
We meet for 75 minutes via Zoom video conferencing.
One of the Co-leaders or Practice Assistants will guide us in a Parts Check-in meditation.
We usually go into the Breakout rooms of participants who wish to practice the exercise. After the breakout rooms, we will gather again in the main room for discussion.
Here is the Zoom invitation for our meeting.
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Helpful Links
Click this link to access several documents, videos, and web pages that will help you know what to expect in Parts Work Practice sessions.
Internal Family Systems and IFS are trademarks of the IFS Institute. Parts Work Practice is not affiliated with the IFS Institute. The guidance and opinions of the CoLeaders and Practice Assistants may not always represent the views or policies of the IFS Institute. Parts Work Practice is not intended as training for the IFS model. For all IFS-endorsed training, please go IFS-Institute.com.
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