This is an IFS session with an exile who is externalized as a fox finger puppet. It illustrates • how to do IFS with Finger Puppets • how to do IFS on yourself. It features Melissa as both client and practitioner. A session out of the vaults...from 2012! 

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Fox Out of the Box: IFS Session with an exile 

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<h2 id="64dbfc3c-ba29-46fb-87ee-40e829599922" data-toc-id="64dbfc3c-ba29-46fb-87ee-40e829599922">An exile, the fox, is out of the box! Out and about, and mad about being kept in the box for so long! Why was her exuberance and aliveness stifled and held at bay? The protectors know…will they let us know? Watch and find out! One of the ways people learn IFS best is through IFS demonstrations. </h2>I have witnessed over 100 in-person IFS demonstrations by the founder of IFS, Richard Schwartz, during the 15 years I dedicated to learning IFS (including taking 13 level 3 trainings with him). I truly believe simply watching IFS sessions is a very powerful way to get it IN YOUR BONES and to begin to live and breathe the IFS approach. Make it come alive in you! Watch it IN ACTION! I also believe our mirror neurons benefit from the entrainment of watching other people’s parts receive and respond to Self-energy. It gives them permission and hope that they, too, can do it. In the spirit of dynamic, experiential learning, I am offering this new IFS Demonstration Class with the hope it will support people to learn IFS more deeply. This IFS demonstration illustrates how to work with parts yourself, using finger puppets to externalize parts

An advanced IFS demonstration of an exuberant exile 
coming to understand why the protectors stifled her in the past

A 30-minute IFS demonstration of Melissa from 2012, followed by 30 minutes of Q & A from the December, 2024 Fox Out of the Box Workshop


IFS + Finger Puppets: Fox Out of the Box

Melissa Sandfort

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