Participants will learn to work-with their legacy material, as burdens and inheritances, in family, cultural and social systems using IFS.

As a family system we all carry aspects of our family’s inheritance. This includes strengths and weakness, guilts and innocence, loyalties, shadowy unclaimed cut-offs, and more. These legacy inheritances (not just those we feel good about, or wish away) can invisibly shape us, and even to require something of us in our life. As part of a larger context, a system of systems, we discover much we have struggled with or pathologised about ourselves, can also be understood as belonging-to the whole family or social system. When we personalise these heavy burdens we can experience ourselves as ‘stuck, broken or treatment resistant’ , rather than allowing that the approach (medical or psychological) may be misdirected or misperceiving. Additionally, these inter-generational imbalances or debts can travel through and across family lines over decades, even centuries. Collective burdens may relate to social experiences such as immigration, colonisation, gender and religion – institutional and social mores, and more.

Any part in the personal or family system can be carrying legacy influences that impact its’ role and functioning. These are unique energies and influences that we acquired from our families, and other legacies that are shared more widely – the result of our history, cultural codes, ways of upbringing, system of education, ethnicity, gender and so on. They can be visible and obvious, or hidden and unaware. Acknowledging both the pain and the beauty of our heritage brings healing and clarity to our inner and outer systems.

In this workshop we will learn to:
• Identify legacy influences in ourselves and our clients
• Understand their content and recognise their impact on the person’s system and life
• Invite representatives to stand-in within our system to bring new information, energy and perception
• Separate ‘heirlooms’ in our legacy that we would like to keep and pass on forward, and the painful burdens that we could release
• Understand and practice the release of process of legacy burdens, including acknowledging the importance, role and well-wishing of ancestors, resources and guides

This workshop will include didactic teaching, live demonstrations, small and large group work, meditation, and much opportunity to experience practice and build skills.

Participants will learn by doing, sharing and reflecting. This is not a therapeutic group, and those seeking therapy are kindly directed to appropriate professionals.

This workshop is not recommended for those in crisis. If you are unsure please contact the organiser.

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