General Methodology
IFS stands for this
What is Internal Family Systems
These parts are activated after an exile has been triggered and desperately tries to douse the flames of emotion
What is the firefighter?
The SELF is accessible to this demographic.
Who is everyone?
This "C" was what the lion in The Wizard of Oz sought
Courage
These disconnect Self from parts and give them extreme impulses.
What is a burden?
This is the number of parts believed to be inherently bad in IFS theory
Zero
These are often the younger ones that have frequently been called inner children in our culture. Before we get hurt, they are the delightful, playful, creative, trusting, innocent, and open parts of us that we love to be close to
What is an exile?
The SELF speaks _____ the parts instead of from the parts
What is for?
This is the state of feeling a part of a larger entity such as a partnership, team, community or organization.
What is connection?
The difficult events and people that trigger you; by tormenting you, they mentor you about what you need to heal.
What is a tor-mentor?
While in psychotherapy the onion is used as a metaphor to describe our psyches, Richard Schwartz used this to describe accessing our parts in IFS
Garlic Cloves
This part functions as a parentified child. It preempts the triggering of our exiles by controlling, pleasing, or disconnecting us.
What is a manager part?
When your parts start to trust your Self, they open more space for you to be in your body. This is an IFS term known as this.
What is embodiment?
Perhaps the most important and essential of the 8 c's, you cannot feel this and anger or rage at the same time
What is curiousity?
By simply focusing on one of your parts, you are separating from it, also known as THIS in IFS.....
What is unblending?
Richard Schwartz proposes that IFS defines a multiple mind paradigm, which is in stark contrast to a ______ paradigm.
Mono mind
Protective Parts blend because they don't trust THIS to make decisions
The SELF
“An exile is healed when _____ retrieves it from where it is stuck in the past. Then the exile can unburden and begin to reintegrate with all the other parts in the system.
What is the Self?
The ability to perceive situations without distortion or extreme belief
What is clarity?
When people use religion or spirituality to escape from the wrath of their parts rather than integrating with the self
What is spiritual bypassing?
Called alters in Disassociative Personality Disorder IFS refers to them as this
What are parts?
This part is most likely to become an inner critic
What is the manager part?
When you focus on one, it’s as if you are starting out on a path that will lead you to the part from which that thought, emotion, impulse, or sensation emanates, bringing you closer to the self.
What is a trailhead?
To be open-heartedly present of oneself and others without the urge to fix, change, distance or judge
What is compassion?
This type of burden is handed down through the generations and can live within our cultures or within our families.
Legacy Burden