For some time now we’ve been drawing on a powerful body of work - ‘Internal Family Systems’ - in our coaching practice. It’s a way of understanding people that proposes that we’re never just ‘one thing’ but constituted as a system, or ‘family’, of inner parts that are in an unfolding process of ongoing relationship with one another and the world. As well as the many parts of us (some of which are protector parts, some of which are ‘exiled’ parts carrying both burdens and gifts) the model proposes an enduring Essential Self - wide, deep, compassionate, present - which can attend to the parts, support them and, when called for, lead the family of parts in skilful ways.
The approach has strong resonance with all we teach on the PCC and has an enormous degree of explanatory power - how we get stuck, how we might compassionately liberate the gifts we could bring, and how we can honour and integrate what is more difficult or challenging within us. It opens up new ways of understanding development (in the 10 ways), personality (as in the 3 Panels, Enneagram), and the ‘essential self’ with the many qualities and virtues that we can bring into the world. And it lends itself very pragmatically to working sensitively and powerfully with the unfolding developmental and relational process of our clients in all four human domains. It’s a wonderful and coherent adjunct to the skills of coaching you’ll have learned in the PCC.
Session 2: Working With Your Clients
Session 2 of this new programme is intended to support you in opening up paths for supporting your coaching clients in working with their own system of self and parts with kindness, truthfulness and compassion. You will also have the opportunity to continue to attend to the path of your own development. Through conversation, practice and reflection we’ll support you in
working ‘in the moment’ with parts and essential self
supporting your clients in staying in compassionate contact with those parts that may have been pushed away or exiled
being of support to your clients in freeing parts that have taken up ‘no-longer-called-for roles’ in bringing their gifts.
There will be a strong practice and reflection thread to our four days together, with many opportunities to step into the wonder of working with parts, self and process with others in the group.
The programme is offered entirely online and runs from 10am to 6pm UK time each day. We will gather in an intimate and welcoming community of learning on Zoom, with 18 places open to anyone who is a graduate of the PCC and who has completed Session 1 of this programme. The four days will be led by Neena, Lizzie and Justin.
Fees for Session 2
We are developing models for fees that can themselves be as inclusive as possible. We want to make our work increasingly available to everyone. To support this we’re offering three different choices for fees for this module:
Attender - the standard course fee of £1200 (+ UK VAT if applicable)
Supporter - an opportunity to make it possible for others to join us. You pay a course fee of £1200 (+ UK VAT if applicable) + a donation towards someone else’s place. We suggest a donation of £300 or £400 but you can choose to donate less or more as your resources allow
Supported - a reduced course fee of £400 (+ UK VAT if applicable)
If these fees don’t work for you, please speak to us. We are committed to finding ways to have our offerings be as inclusive as we can.
Reserve your place
We ask for a £75 non-refundable but transferrable deposit to reserve your place. We will invoice the full balance before the programme begins.