Internal Family Systems
- aka IFS
- I've barely used it myself but am conversant in a lot of its terms
- "blended", "unblended", "Self", "protector", "exile", etc
- In 2016 I wrote a thing attempting to name different parts of me; I found this a useful exploration for awhile but ultimately it was a rough sketch and much has evolved since then.
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partswork doesn't require reifying or naming parts
- In IFS/Internal Family Systems, the parts are given names and seem to have fairly stable identities at least until some transformation occurs.
Podcast summaries
- Keywords - brain hemispheres McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model Perceptual Control Theory barn-raising Internal Family Systems blindspot blindspot feedback is hard (but possible!) it's only possible to be rational within a frame make shared or different frames explicit Change doesn't just happen Intend productivity Intend Philosophy & Paradigm how to think about goals PCT internal conflict much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture? Geoffrey West Questions for teasing apart the concept of commitment commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing acceptance isn't the same as acceptance safety self-trust right hemisphere left hemisphere self-energizing
February 16th, 2021
- like why hasn't he gone all the way?
- various hypotheses for this:
- he doesn't believe it's possible, somehow?
- like his implicit model of how how far you can go doesn't include that
- he thinks it would be bad
- eg that it's important to retain some amount of triggerableness to be more able to relate with his patients/clients/etc
- panic is probably for infants and IFS doesn't go back far enough
- this is where something like Ideal Parent Figure Protocol would be necessary
- or something else to get at ~18 month old attachment stuff
- this is probably my main hypothesis for what's going on
- which is fascinating when I consider I literally wouldn't have had this hypothesis a month ago - what else am I missing?
- was really helpful to hear Tim go through a whole IFS arc
- no individual pieces there were new, really, though some I'd forgotten about
- I don't think I've ever gotten through a full session
September 4th, 2020
- I pointed out that inasmuch as the "self" is a necessary organizing function, as eg it is construed in the context of Internal Family Systems, then any parts that require as part of their functioning that information be hidden from consciousness, necessarily undermine the Self
- this doesn't make those parts bad! it's a structural thing.
Comparing Bio-Emotive and Focusing
- a whole thread talking about how Focusing is kind of dissociated whereas Bio-Emotive is very embodied etc. Similar to what Internal Family Systems calls blended