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Interactive Group Leader Training

 

If you are interested in learning how to lead interactive IFS groups, we provide extensive professional training in this method. Interactive IFS Groups can be led as either therapy groups or personal growth groups, so you don’t have to be a therapist to take our trainings.

We offer two types of trainings.

Regular trainings include an experiential component where the training group also functions as an interactive group, so you have the experience of being in such a group, led by me, along with the teaching.

Didactic trainings include only the teaching portion. They are useful for:

  • People who already have personal experience being a member of or leading an interactive group.
  • People who become a member of an Institute group along with this training.
  • People who want a professional introduction to Interactive IFS Groups.
  • People who can't attend or get into a regular training.

You can take a Didactic Training even if you can’t attend at the time it is scheduled. All sessions are recorded and you can submit questions to be answered.

Practice Groups are for leaders who have completed a regular training or a didactic training along with interactive group experience and knowledge of IFS. You take turns leading segments of the group under my guidance and receive feedback afterwards. The first one will start in Jan. 2025. 

Certification. The Interactive Group Institute certifies people who have demonstrated competence as Interactive Group leaders.

Institute Groups. The Institute has a long waiting list of people who want to join an interactive IFS group, so you might be able to lead a group under the Institute as part of your training and then continue with it once you are certified.

For full training, we provide four components:

1. Experience being a member of an interactive group.
2. Didactic teaching about leading interactive groups.
3. Practice leading under my guidance (either in a Practice Group or co-leading an Institute group with me).
4. Supervision of you leading a group (either your own or an Institute group).

You need all four to be certified by the Institute.

Prerequisite. An experiential knowledge of IFS is a prerequisite for the regular trainings. If you don’t have that, I recommend that you take our Basic IFS Course, led by Bonnie Weiss, LCSW.