Expressive IFS Intensives & Retreats
Workshop Description:
This experiential retreat is carefully designed by Adrienne and Michelle to deepen one’s intimacy of their own inner landscapes with a unique flow between expressive movement of parts and Self, as well as mastering the Daily Parts Meditation Practice® tools for deeper integration. This workshop aims to strengthen Self-leadership and foster inner and outer relationships which can enhance IFS professional’s skills.
Michelle will teach an overview of each DPMP® tool, focusing primarily on Parts Externalization through SoulCollage®, the DPMP® Meditation, Parts Catalogue Cards, and Parts Maps. Adrienne will guide an overview of Expressive Part-Work Practices, such as authentic movement, psychodramatic methods, embodied constellations/sculpts, dance movement therapy, and contemplative arts (guide work and embodied Buddhist meditation practices).
Whether you are new to parts work or are an experienced practitioner, you’ll find these exercises teach you something new about blending, unblending, unburdenings, and integration. While IFS sessions, in and of themselves, are incredibly healing and transformative, utilizing the tools within Daily Parts Meditation Practice® and Expressive-Parts-Work can deepen your integration and embodied understanding of your somatic Self and system of parts. Through these applications of IFS, we will focus on our own system, to facilitate having an embodied experience for yourself to offer these with your clients.
Learning Objectives:
What you will learn:
Deepen your embodied connection to Self and your constellation of parts
Learn how to utilize Parts Mapping, Parts Catalogue Cards, and Parts Externalizations with yourself and clients.
Develop your own unique DPMP® Meditations to assist doing so with clients.
Identify the benefits of using the DPMP® tools for yourself and clients.
Utilize somatic IFS techniques and body awareness techniques with your own system and for clients.
Learn authentic movement, somatics and how this can be combined with IFS, embodied constellation work and action methods.
Learn how somatics, role-play, and sculpts can help with unblending and direct access in addition to insight techniques.
Experience how embodied visualization and role-play can be utilized in guide work.
Experience how the collective Self can relationally unburden in group settings.
Your Facilitators:
Adrienne Glasser LCSW, RDMT (she/her) is an experiential psychotherapist specializing in addictions, codependency and trauma resolution. She is certified in Internal Family Systems, IFS, a powerful model of identifying both the egoic parts and authentic self that can heal the embodied trauma that underlies addictions.
She is the developer of Expressive Parts-Work, an experiential and expressive psychotherapy model that combines IFS with somatic, movement, role-play and spiritual interventions for trauma resolution. Adrienne studied somatics, dance movement therapy and the arts at Pratt Institute and was mentored by Tian Dayton. Adrienne runs Beyond Parts-Work trainings and intensives for helping professionals, those in recovery and those in the LGBTQ+ community. She also runs trainings at multiple treatment centers in the Beyond Parts-Work model.
She is a certified meditation instructor, a graduate of Nalanda Institute of the contemplative arts and has been mentored by Ethan Nichtern, Loch Kelly and her teacher Lama Tsultrim Allione.
In addition, Adrienne brings her own personal experience as a queer creative in recovery from addictive behaviors and codependency for over the last 20 years. She believes that we all have the embodied wisdom within to unlock our authenticity and freedom.
Michelle Glass is a Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner, Oregon Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator, and Alternative Counselor in Eugene, Oregon who has 20 years of IFS experience and has accumulated over 380 hours of direct study with Richard Schwartz, PhD, the founder of IFS. She used IFS to heal from a childhood of abuse and complex-PTSD. She developed and is the author of the Daily Parts Meditation Practice®: A Journey of Embodied Integration for Clients and Therapists, which has become a valued method of deep embodiment of the IFS Model and healing integration. The DPMP® contains six tools of integration which can now be found within the IFS-inspired app called Sentur.
She has given workshops on the DPMP® online and across the globe. Her focus has shifted to IFS and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. She offers a 22-Hour Comprehensive IFS Introductory for Psychedelic Facilitators course a few times a year as well as provides smaller workshops aimed to help IFS-trained professionals support their clients who are seeking out psychedelics outside of their services.
Michelle received a Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy from Naropa Institute and Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in 2022. In addition, she served as the Editor for OUTLOOK, the Foundation for Self Leadership’s magazine, for seven years and has been a SoulCollage® facilitator for ten years.
More information can be found at https://thelistenerllc.com.
Mell McCracken CADC-II, ASAT, RAE (they/them) is a certified Breathwork Practitioner specializing in Holotropic Breathwork. '
Mell is the Executive Director of No Matter What Recovery, a treatment center for mental health and addiction.
Mell is a fierce advocate for healing and transformation through substance abuse counseling, sex addiction therapy, and treatment program development.
They have nearly a decade of experience and extensive expertise in empowering individuals to overcome their struggles with addiction and navigate the complexities of chemsex in the rainbow community.
They are committed to uplifting voices and breaking stigmas, one conversation at a time, and have spent their career fighting for inclusivity and empowerment through chemsex education and LGBT+ activism.
What helping professionals say about working with Michelle and Adrienne:
What clients say about working with Adrienne:
“Though I absorbed tremendous knowledge, it was really the experience of embodied practice in a safe, affirming space and spiritually vibrant setting that made it utterly unique. As a professor, theatre artist, and drama therapist I gained skills, healing modalities, and practical tools that have expanded my offerings in healing, educational, and artistic work. Practicing these healing modalities in a supportive, compassionate, talented community in turn metamorphosed my own personal healing journey. In a short time, I awoke to some fundamental truths in myself and with the brilliant leadership and open-hearted community, I stepped into empowered self alignment in a way I never had before…I am happier and healthier than I have ever been and a better healer and facilitator as well —largely due to the impact of Beyond IFS and my work with Adrienne.” Axel W.
“Adrienne brings together her professional and personal expertise in her weaving in the wisdom of Internal Family Systems, expressive arts, Tibetan Buddhist traditions, and somatic approaches to create a comprehensive experience that guides participants to understand their connection to Self and parts on a whole new level. She approaches her role as facilitator as sacred, honoring and respecting the unique systems of each member as a part of the collective, fluidly shifting throughout the program to move at a pace and depth that stretches enough while maintaining safety within the risks. I would highly recommend Adrienne’s work to those who feel a calling to deepen their relationship with their own parts and to strengthen their capacity to offer this work to others.” -Sabrina B.
What clients say about working with Michelle:
We are all very fortunate to have Michelle bringing her unique range of skills to this deep work. She brings a quiet wisdom that comes from her own journey of healing. Her openness and receptivity combine with a keen ability to be present for the other that invites much safety and acceptance. Her integrity is consistent in every step.” ~ Rina Dubin, Ed.D, IFS Assistant Trainer, Boston, MA
“Michelle has a compassionate and calm presence that creates safety and an atmosphere for deep healing. Her attunement and tracking are remarkable. Michelle is a highly skilled IFS practitioner and I have great confidence in recommending her.” ~ Marilyn Hunt, MS, LMFT, IFS Program Assistant, Lafayette, CA
“From my first meeting Michelle she has been one of the most inspiring, connected people I have met in my life. She has a presence and receptive quality that few are gifted with.” ~ Clare M Brown, LPC, LCAT, LFYP, Elmira, NY
Where it all happens:
Pure land Farms in Topanga California
This program will be offered at Pure Land Farms in the rolling hills of Topanga California, a Buddhist retreat center. The land is named after Tanaduk, the Pure Land of the Medicine Buddha. Pure Land offers courses and workshops in the subjects of Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism, yoga, and rejuvenation, and group practices and small retreats in the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage, the unique spiritual tradition of Tibetan Medicine.
While Expressive Arts & Daily Parts Meditation Retreat is not a Buddhist or Pure Land Farms program ( all spiritual beliefs are welcome) it is connected to both the parts-work teachings of Dick Schwartz (IFS) and Feeding Your Demons, an ancient, shamanic, buddhist, embodied parts-work practice. We will be steeped in both Eastern and Western ways to view parts-work and connections to Lama Tsultirim’s Feeding Your Demons (parts-work) are directly connected to the lineage of Pure Land Farms.
There are beautiful nature walks, a pool, sauna and scenic views that are all part of the incredible landscape of Pure Land Farms.
As there is a dedication to Buddhist medicine at the farm, there are fresh herbs and gardens surrounding the property and Tibetan medicine healers that can be booked on-site as a separate service from the program.
Lodging
There is a wide range of lodging options and varied cost. Lodging and airfare cost is separate from the cost of the intensive. There is a wide range of living quarters across the campus from single occupancy with private bathrooms, to bedrooms with shared bathrooms and also beautifully designed yurts for those that enjoy glamping while keeping Tibetian traditions & aesthetics.
Once you have completed your interview and payment, you will be provided with a link to book your stay directly with Pure Land Farms.
Cost: $2,222 Includes all programming and meals. Lodging is separate with a wide range of options from yurts to private rooms. Registration for lodging through Pure Land Farms will be given at registration. Registration for programming is through The Listener, LLC: (link soon)
Sliding scale and payment plans are available upon request for those in need.
Public Schedule
| Thursday, October 16 | |
| Evening | Arrival |
| Friday, October 17 | |
| 8am-9am | Breakfast |
| 9:15am-1pm | Morning Session -Parts Meditation -IFS Sculpts & Somatic Constellations |
| 1pm-3pm | Lunch and Personal Time |
| 3pm-6:30pm | Afternoon Session -Parts Meditation -Experiential Demos & Soulcollage® |
| 6:30pm | Dinner |
| 7:30-9pm | Optional SoulCollage®/Music Circle |
| Saturday, October 18 | |
| 8am-9am | Breakfast |
| 9:15am-1pm | Morning Session -Parts Meditation -IFS Sculpts & Somatic Constellations |
| 1pm-3pm | Lunch and Personal Time |
| 3pm-6:30pm | Afternoon Session -Parts Meditation -Experiential Demos & Soulcollage® |
| 6:30pm | Dinner |
| 7:30-9pm | Optional SoulCollage®/Music Circle |
| Sunday, October 19 | |
| 8am-9am | Breakfast |
| 9:15am-1pm | Morning Session -Parts Meditation -IFS Sculpts & Somatic Constellations |
| 1pm-3pm | Lunch and Personal Time |
| 3pm-6:30pm | Afternoon Session -Parts Meditation -Experiential Demos & Soulcollage® |
| 6:30pm | Dinner |
| 7:30-9pm | Movement Journey & Breathwork With Mell McCracken |
| Monday, October 20 | |
| 8am-9am | Breakfast |
| 9:15am-12pm | Morning Session -Parts Meditation -IFS Experiential integrations & closing ceremony with Soulcollage® |
| 12pm | Optional Lunch |
| 1pm | Depart or option to stay and relax on campus until 5pm official departure time. |
Investment: $2,222
Payment plans available. Please ask Michelle about this at michelleglassifs@gmail.com post interview and application approval.
Cancellation Policy:
Full refund (minus $50 service fees) up until August 22nd
50% refund (minus $50 services fees) up until September 19th
No refunds are available after September 19th.