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Learn Practical IFS* Tools You Can Use Right Away

Saturday, January 24, 2026, from 7AM to 2:30PM PDT • Online on Zoom • Register for Free

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*Parts Work Practice is not affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not provide IFS training. If you wish to be trained in the IFS model, go to www.IFS-Institute.com.

After a deeply engaging first conference that connected IFS practitioners, coaches, and therapists worldwide, the Parts Work Practice Conference returns this January with a full-day format and four rounds of experiential workshops.

This live online event is for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding and embodiment of the Internal Family Systems model through real-time practice, connection, and community.

What to Expect:

  • Two sessions of workshops with a lunch break in between, led by trained IFS practitioners

  • Two workshops in each session

  • Real-time demonstrations and guided practice in Parts Work

  • A variety of sessions to match your personal and professional goals

  • Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced sessions

  • Supportive breakout spaces to connect with the growing IFS community

Each workshop offers a unique way to experience healing through Parts Work, from working with protectors and exiles to embodying Self energy in action. These sessions go beyond theory and help you experience genuine transformation in real time.

  • “The entire conference was valuable for me. Every part offered something meaningful, especially being able to get in front of people who share the same passion for IFS. The organizers did an amazing job. Everything felt professional, thoughtful, and well-paced. The only challenge was timing, but overall, it was a wonderful experience.”

  • “I found one of the workshops incredibly valuable because it offered a gentle and efficient pace. The journaling prompts really helped me process what I was learning, and the short interactions made it easy to connect with others. The structure and pacing of the event were excellent, and I can’t wait for the next conference!”

  • “The most valuable part of the conference for me was being exposed to new concepts and teachers. Each session offered something unique, and I left feeling inspired and grateful for this community. I’m already looking forward to attending future events and continuing to learn from everyone involved.”

  • “I really appreciated the chance to journal and connect with my parts’ dialogue. The sessions were so helpful, and the facilitators created a space that felt safe and welcoming. I don’t have any suggestions for improvement, it was a great experience from start to finish.”

  • “I loved the opportunity to work directly with three different facilitators on different themes. Every session felt well-paced, and the timing and topics were perfect. Each session offered something valuable, and I’m thankful for the thoughtful organization behind it.”

Workshops

Beginner Workshops - participants new to IFS

Intermediate Workshops - for those familiar with the model

Advanced Workshops - for those seasoned in the model

IFS in Relationship: Turning Inward to Connect Outward

Beginner, Intermediate

Relationships can be incredibly fulfilling – and wildly frustrating! In this session you’ll learn ways to attune to and attend to your inner world when relationship tension is high so you can return to presence with the person in front of you. You’ll experience this through guided meditations, journaling and group exercises.

Presented by:

Andrea Feucht

Andrea Feucht is a Level 2 IFS Practitioner with many advanced trainings, including IFIO (IFS for couples), Somatic IFS and IFS for Legacy and Cultural Burdens. Andrea uses both IFS and her embodied coaching skills to help adults in challenging life situations find a healing path through.

Using IFS for Coaching Outcomes

Intermediate, Advanced

Experience how Internal Family Systems can be used not only for healing but for creating change. Through guided journaling and live coaching, participants clarify a personal objective, meet the parts that respond to it, and learn how IFS can intentionally influence future choices and outcomes.

Presented by:

Bill Tierney

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Cofounder of Parts Work Practice, Certified IFS Practitioner, Compassionate Results Coach. He began coaching in 2011 and became certified in IFS in 2021. Bill leads five IFS-based groups and offers individual coaching. He helps people recover their true Selves through the IFS model, drawing on over four decades of personal development since getting sober in 1982. He is the author of the Compassionate Results Guidebook and co-author of the forthcoming Parts Work Guidebook.

In Your Head About IFS

Intermediate

The more we learn about the IFS parts work model, the more we want to do it right! Unfortunately, this can actually make the process harder, as we get caught up in our "Self-like" parts. Learn how to detect and work with your parts that are trying so hard to do the right thing..

Presented by:

Brian Jones

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Brian Jones is a Level 1 trained IFS therapist. He has volunteered as a Practice Assistant in the Parts Work Practice group since early 2024, and as a Program Assistant in IFS Institute Level 1 training. Brian works in private practice, specializing in religious trauma and adjacent issues such as shame, grief, relationship and family-of-origin issues.

Portals for Healing: Exploring the Wisdom of Triggers and Activations

Intermediate

Let's explore the trailheads of triggers and activations as doorways towards younger parts holding unprocessed experiences and emotions. We'll practice the work of holding a safe witnessing space to get to know, update, unburden, and reintegrate these protective parts back into our system and psyche. Some basic IFS knowledge will be helpful for this workshop.

Presented by:

Islena Faircrest

Somatic therapist and yoga educator since 2000, Islena Faircrest is a trauma-informed Internal Family Systems trained practitioner and interpersonal somatic attachment therapist. She facilitates learning secure relational connection, repairing attachment injury, and helping individuals & families in their healing journey towards empowered living. She's a mother of two young adults, a caregiver to her physically handicapped elderly mother, and understands sandwich-generation midlife pressures from lived experience, as well as how to grow internal resources and resilience in the face of challenge and adversity.

Meet the Dreamers and the Doubters

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Inside each of us are parts that dream big—imagining new possibilities, growth, and change—and parts that hold back, raising fears and questions to keep us safe. In this experiential workshop, you’ll learn how to meet both of these parts with curiosity and compassion using the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach.

Through guided visualization, parts mapping, and reflection exercises, you’ll discover what each part wants for you, how it tries to help, and how they can work together to support your next steps. Whether your aspiration involves career, creativity, relationships, or personal growth, you’ll leave with greater clarity, appreciation for your inner system, and a renewed sense of confidence in your path forward.

Presented by:

Jesse Schuhlein

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Jesse Schuhlein is an IFS-trained coach and former engineering leader. In his mid-forties, after helping build a successful scientific automation company, he turned his curiosity inward—discovering a path of inner growth and healing that led to a new career in coaching. A central part of that journey was Internal Family Systems (IFS), where he completed Stepping Stones and Stepping Deeper through IFSCA.

Today, through Recharge Coaching, Jesse blends IFS, mindfulness, and leadership experience to help people reconnect with Self, integrate their inner systems, and move toward what truly matters—in work, relationships, and life.

Internal Family Systems 101

Beginner

IFS 101 - In this workshop Leslie will take you through an introduction of the IFS model. She will introduce the key concepts of IFS. Self, parts, burdens, protectors and more. If you are new to IFS or want a deeper understanding of the model this workshop is for you. In this workshop you will be asked to do some journaling to gain an understanding of your own system.

Presented by:

Leslie Lumsden

Leslie is a level 1 and level 2 IFS Life Coach. She has a passion for guiding individuals toward self-discovery and healing. She provides a safe, supportive environment for exploration of your internal system. She meets with clients world wide by zoom.

Who’s Running the Show?
Understanding the Parts That Shape Your Life

Beginner

Have you ever caught yourself saying, “A part of me wants to… but another part of me doesn’t”?

That simple phrase holds the key to understanding how your mind truly works.
In this presentation, we explore the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model—a compassionate framework for understanding your inner world. You’ll discover how different parts of you shape your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and why inner conflict often keeps you stuck.

Through story and reflection, you’ll begin to see that the parts running your life aren’t problems to fix—they’re protective strategies that once helped you feel safe.

This is an invitation to pause, get curious, and recognize that your stuck places aren’t failures—they’re parts of you still waiting to be understood.

Presented by:

Peggy Popielarz

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Peggy Popielarz is a Level 1–trained IFS Practitioner and Self-Led Results Coach who works with women who’ve built lives that look good on the outside — yet inside, there’s a quiet sense that something’s missing. Many have spent years keeping the peace, putting others first, and trying to be “enough,” leaving them disconnected from themselves.

Peggy helps them pause, listen within, and meet the parts of themselves that have been working so hard to hold it all together — guiding them to remember what truly matters and to discover a peace that comes from living aligned with their truth.

Conference Schedule

Choose Your Own Path to Healing

Throughout the conference, trained IFS practitioners will offer a variety of immersive 75-minute breakout workshops—each focused on a different aspect of Parts Work and the IFS model. You’ll get to choose up to three sessions that speak most to you, right on the day of the event.

Whether you're drawn to topics like working with protectors, accessing Self energy, or healing from inner conflict, each workshop is designed to create real insight and embodied change.


This is not passive learning—these sessions are practical, experiential, and transformational. You won’t just understand IFS more deeply. You’ll feel the shift.


Come curious. Leave changed.
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PWP Conference Rounds

Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4
Andrea - IFS in Relationship: Turning Inward to Connect Outward ✅ ✅ ❌ ✅
Brian - In Your Head About IFS ❌ ✅ ✅ ❌
Bill - Using IFS for Coaching Outcomes ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅
Islena - Portals for Healing: Exploring the Wisdom of Triggers and Activations ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌
Jesse - Meet the Dreamers and the Doubters ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅
Leslie - Internal Family Systems 101 ✅ ✅ ✅ ❌
Peggy - Who’s Running the Show? Understanding the Parts That Shape Your Life ✅ ✅ ❌ ✅

FAQs

  • No. Breakout rooms will be numbered and identified to match the descriptions on this page. For example, Bill Tierney’s presentation, Using IFS for Coaching Outcomes will be in Breakout Room #4. When it is time to go to the breakout rooms, you will select room #4 if you wish to participate in Bill Tierney’s presentation. It would a good idea to plan in advance, but you are free to change you mind and choose the room you want.

  • No. Once a Workshop round has begun, if you leave the workshop you selected, you will be sent to a waiting room until the end of the round. If you select the wrong room by accident, go back to the waiting room within the first five minutes of a round. Our zoom tech will then send you to the room you intended. But after the first five minutes, it will be too disruptive to enter a session in progress.

  • Yes. This might make sense if you want to explore another part using the same process.

  • This event will be recorded. Participant images will not be included in the recording, but participant audio will. There will be no visual or audio identification of participants. Workshops will be presented multiple times throughout the day, final conference recordings will include the highest quality version of each workshop - the one you participate in may not be used in the final conference recording.

  • No, facilitators will accomodate the room regardless of group size.

  • The Parts Work Practice Conference is organized by Bill Tierney, Certified IFS Practitioner. The Parts Work Practice Conference is not affiliated with the IFS Institute. To become trained in the IFS model, go to www.IFS-Institute.com

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