Summary: "Let Your Parts Move the Pen" Through the Darkness — A Journey into Sleep and Fear

Let Your Parts Move the Pen! Video Example 

Action Steps for Practicing Parts Art / "Letting Your Parts Move the Pen" 

Let Your Parts Move the Pen! Melissa's demonstration video 

Stream of Consciousness Drawing Demo: Holding Anger, Inviting Calm

1st Class: Sunday, April 27th Video

Sunday, April 27th Summary and Key Insights

Sunday, April 27th Action steps for the Class

1st Class: Sunday, April 27th

Drawing What Arises: The Art of Stream-of-Consciousness Parts Work

Class Friday May 9th Summary and Key Insights 

Class Friday May 9th Video 

Class Friday May 9th Action Steps

2nd Class Friday May 9th 

A moving live demo illustrates how staying with each part—without pressure or agenda—can lead to surprising clarity, compassion, and internal calm.

Class May 10th Summary and Key Insights

Class May 10th Video

Class May 11th Action Steps

3rd Class Saturday May 10th

"Let Your Parts Move the Pen” — Longing, Nursery Rhymes & the Red Scooter



2nd Class Sunday May 11 Summary and Key Insights

Sunday May 11 Recording (Scroll Down for Transcript)

Sunday May 11th Action Steps for the Class

4th Class Sunday May 11 Recording

The Room Technique — Working with Polarized Parts

Sunday May 18th Summary and Key Insights

Sunday May 18th Recording (Scroll Down for Transcript)

Sunday May 18th Action Steps for the Class

5th Class Sunday May 18 Recording 

A beautiful demonstration of how allowing a part to express itself on paper can easily and effortlessly enable a protector to step back of its own accord to allow access to the exile beneath. 

Great Questions:  

What if you have a lot of parts that come up all at once, very quickly, in the stream-of-consciousness technique from the first class? 

When should you put all the parts on one page like a stream-of-consciousness map of the system, and when should you give them their own pages? 

Sunday May 25th Summary and Key Insights

Sunday May 25 Recording (Scroll Down for Transcript)

Sunday May 25th Action Steps for the Class

6th Class Sunday May 25 Recording 

Another lovely demonstration of how to work with the inner scribbling techniques to deeply witness and listen to our parts! 

June 1st Extra Class Summary and Key Insights

June 1 class video 

June 1st Extra Class Action steps 

7th Class Recording Sun June 1 

A step-by-step guided worksheet for doing the parts art / 'let your parts move the pen' exercise that can be used with yourself or a partner / client. 

Parts Art Exercise

How To "Let Your Parts Move the Pen" (Parts Art) Worksheet 

Next Steps

More ideas for using art to work with parts from other IFS teachers! 

Extra Parts Art PDF 

For further IFS adventures

Ways to learn more about IFS with Melissa

The 2025 “Let Your Parts Move the Pen” was an amazing success and now you can access it in this recording! Another name for this class is simply “parts doodling” or “scribbling.” You do NOT need to be artistic to take this class!This is the main technique Richard Schwartz, the founder of IFS, uses in all his introductory workshops. I invite you to try it! The first class is a demonstration and discussion of his technique.In the second class, we practice Richard Schwartz’ technique and discuss it.In the third class, we build on the ‘map’ we created in the second class to go deeper with a variation on this technique; this time, working in more depth with ONE part.In the fourth class, we explore a final variation — working with TWO parts in polarization. In the extra class, we covered any questions left over from the first classes to deepen your understanding. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parts art / scribbling also has the benefit of appealing to exiles, who enjoy drawing and doodling. Their creativity helps relax managers as long as they can get over their self-criticism about needing to create perfect “art”, which this class is NOT about at all!  <ul><li>“Let Your Parts Move the Pen” is so simple, creative, fun and free-flowing, it lends itself to supporting IFS work in almost any situation, and therefore I believe it’s an essential, basic unblending tool for everyone to have in their IFS toolbox. This course includes: EIGHT videos! — “Let your parts move the pen” IFS session demonstrations SEVEN workshop recordings with Q &amp; A and session feedback TWO step-by-step worksheets — to guide you through the technique ONE extra worksheet — for added ideas about how to use art to work with parts NEXT STEPS — including links to free resources for your IFS journey If you’re looking for an easy, at-home IFS course that will enhance your capacity to work with yourself or your clients, I invite you to take “Let the Parts Move Your Pen!”</li></ul>

A powerful course that enabled students to use stream-of-consciousness drawing / sketching / scribbling / doodling to externalize and unblend from parts in powerful and moving ways! 

The live course is over, but you can access it here in this recording! 

Let Your Parts Have the Pen! How to Use Stream-of-Consciousness Drawing to Unblend in IFS!

Melissa Sandfort

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