In the Internal Family Systems model, we can heal our own inner children, help our protective parts transform and change their strategies for living, and take a direction in life more aligned to the inner essence of who we are.
Richard Schwartz once remarked that our inner children, and protective parts, in IFS Therapy, return to their natural state. Which is a true blessing.
Whilst keeping all the blessings of the IFS model, IFS Coaching keeps the entire model, and nuances and develops where Richard left off in his kind remark, and takes this part of the model a stage further, whilst honouring and working every facet of the whole model in a holistic way.
We then focus on more than our parts returning to their original blessed state, but help them, like the people they are, realise and fulfil their true unlimited potential, and manifest their inner gifts into the world, using the very best Coaching practices and ways of being, informed on and using IFS therapy in the coaching model, so that we can live our full lives, and connect with others as we do so, in a relational way, using relational skills, which our parts also need to learn...all of this empowering our parts, bringing in more of our self-essence and self-energy, and empowering other people, our partners, colleagues, friends, strangers, empowering them on the same quest to go beyond ourselves with a goal united in a concrete, practical, and real foundation and ending, of limitless universal love. This is a foundation religious and spiritual leaders have called the love of good for its own sake. And what Kierkegaard wrote of as "purity of heart."
In our world of conflicts and differences being held as the cause of conflicts, what is universal love? Universal love isn't spoken of much these days. But it's encapsulated in the teaching upon the highest level of self, "Love your neighbour as yourself."
It's pretty clear from the national and global conflicts in the world, that nations, and the individuals' and groups who lead our nation, are not behaving towards other nations, nor even themselves, and their own people, out of the highest values, doing the most good for the most people, in a way which enhances their integrity, and empowers people in the common human quest, to realise ourselves.
And that realisation is spoken of as entering into the kingdom of heaven. And also spoken of in the words of the Our Father, "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven."
And sages of old have been speaking out of our human existential situation since time began. Socrates when he was told, "Socrates, I do not believe that such a city of God exists anywhere on earth," Socrates replied, "Whether such a city exists in heaven or ever will exist on earth, the wise man will live after the manner of that City, having nothing to do with any other, and in so looking upon it, will set his own house in order."
And we find the form of the City of heaven first in how we should live through our own Self, or Higher Self, within us - not only as a source of wisdom, compassion, courage, curiosity, playfulness and creativity - also as a source of loving being and all the fruits of being for their own sake, of which we are a manifestion.
Just as in IFS we can heal our own parts from that Place of Self within us, which has qualities of compassion, courage, and curiosity, it is from this Place our parts can also find themselves and who they are in the universe, and come into being through us, and as they do so, we come more fully into being, as a whole, in our presence and transcendent in the moment self-energies...
Richard Schwartz once remarked that our inner children, and protective parts, in IFS Therapy, return to their natural state. Which is a true blessing.
Whilst keeping all the blessings of the IFS model, IFS Coaching keeps the entire model, and nuances and develops where Richard left off in his kind remark, and takes this part of the model a stage further, whilst honouring and working every facet of the whole model in a holistic way.
We then focus on more than our parts returning to their original blessed state, but help them, like the people they are, realise and fulfil their true unlimited potential, and manifest their inner gifts into the world, using the very best Coaching practices and ways of being, informed on and using IFS therapy in the coaching model, so that we can live our full lives, and connect with others as we do so, in a relational way, using relational skills, which our parts also need to learn...all of this empowering our parts, bringing in more of our self-essence and self-energy, and empowering other people, our partners, colleagues, friends, strangers, empowering them on the same quest to go beyond ourselves with a goal united in a concrete, practical, and real foundation and ending, of limitless universal love. This is a foundation religious and spiritual leaders have called the love of good for its own sake. And what Kierkegaard wrote of as "purity of heart."
In our world of conflicts and differences being held as the cause of conflicts, what is universal love? Universal love isn't spoken of much these days. But it's encapsulated in the teaching upon the highest level of self, "Love your neighbour as yourself."
It's pretty clear from the national and global conflicts in the world, that nations, and the individuals' and groups who lead our nation, are not behaving towards other nations, nor even themselves, and their own people, out of the highest values, doing the most good for the most people, in a way which enhances their integrity, and empowers people in the common human quest, to realise ourselves.
And that realisation is spoken of as entering into the kingdom of heaven. And also spoken of in the words of the Our Father, "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven."
And sages of old have been speaking out of our human existential situation since time began. Socrates when he was told, "Socrates, I do not believe that such a city of God exists anywhere on earth," Socrates replied, "Whether such a city exists in heaven or ever will exist on earth, the wise man will live after the manner of that City, having nothing to do with any other, and in so looking upon it, will set his own house in order."
And we find the form of the City of heaven first in how we should live through our own Self, or Higher Self, within us - not only as a source of wisdom, compassion, courage, curiosity, playfulness and creativity - also as a source of loving being and all the fruits of being for their own sake, of which we are a manifestion.
Just as in IFS we can heal our own parts from that Place of Self within us, which has qualities of compassion, courage, and curiosity, it is from this Place our parts can also find themselves and who they are in the universe, and come into being through us, and as they do so, we come more fully into being, as a whole, in our presence and transcendent in the moment self-energies...