IFS Group Program

Six Relational Moves Toward Inner Coherence

This is a 6-week IFS-informed online group focused on practice — not more information

Emotional capacity is the ability to stay steady when something inside you feels intense.

It allows you to feel anxiety, shame, anger, or vulnerability without being taken over by it.

This group strengthens that steadiness so what you learn in therapy or IFS becomes something you can actually live.

Each week centers on a clear theme and a specific relational move

This is a 6-week IFS-informed online group focused on practice — not more information

Together, they build your ability to stay present, respond instead of react, and relate differently to your inner world.

Over six weeks, you develop real skills:

• staying steady under activation

• leading your inner dialogue instead of being led by it

• increasing your sense of agency

• relating to others from more clarity

• regulating without shutting down or pushing through

What you'll experience & practice over 6 weeks

Week 1 — Rediscovering Safety to Notice

Week 3 — Staying Present Under Activation

Week 1 — Rediscovering Safety to Notice

You learn how to recognize when you’re blended with a part and practice shifting from “I am anxious” to “a part of me is anxious.” Using the Four Directions Practice, you begin accessing Self energy intentionally — even when you can’t fully feel it.

Week 2 — Meeting Big Protective Parts

Week 3 — Staying Present Under Activation

Week 1 — Rediscovering Safety to Notice

You identify your strongest protectors (control, planning, numbing, performing) and learn to speak for them instead of being driven by them. You practice offering gratitude and checking whether it’s actually received — turning insight into real internal relationship.

Week 3 — Staying Present Under Activation

Week 4 — Working with Exiles and Vulnerability

You work directly with activation and learn how awareness changes your nervous system in real time. Through structured micro-unblending (including 60-second practice), you build tolerance for strong emotion without shutdown or escalation.

Week 4 — Working with Exiles and Vulnerability

Week 6 — Integration and Daily Relational Practice

Week 4 — Working with Exiles and Vulnerability

You approach vulnerable parts slowly and safely, without bypassing protectors. You practice compassionate witnessing and check whether your presence is actually landing — building trust through pacing and consistency.

Week 5 — Creating Internal Coherence

Week 6 — Integration and Daily Relational Practice

You facilitate dialogue between polarized parts and learn how to help them truly hear each other. Instead of choosing sides, you practice Self-led mediation that reduces internal conflict without suppressing anyone..

Week 6 — Integration and Daily Relational Practice

You design concrete daily check-in rhythms and relational commitments your parts can rely on. You leave with repeatable structure — not just insight — so the work continues beyond the group.

Session Structure

Each 80-minute session follows a clear and steady flow so you know what to expect.

We begin by arriving and orienting attention — settling enough to do meaningful work. From there, we move into guided experiential practice aligned with the week’s theme.

Sessions include:

• Facilitated live process

• Structured relational exercises

• Paired or small-group practice

• Internal dialogue work

• Whole-group reflection

The pacing is intentional.

Protectors are engaged before vulnerable material. Presence comes before intensity.

Between sessions, you’ll have simple relational practices to support continuity and follow-through.

This is guided, experiential work — steady, structured, and cumulative over six weeks.

Meet Your Facilitator

Katie Priest

I am an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and a Level 3 Internal Family Systems Therapist trained by Richard Schwartz.

For me, IFS is not just a model — it is a living language for relating to ourselves. Grounded in neurobiology and relational science, it offers a precise way to understand how we organize internally and how we heal.

When we truly listen to our parts and relate to them with respect, something shifts. We become more coherent, more resilient, and more able to repair when we get it wrong.

This work continues to shape how I live and relate — with greater integrity and compassion.

What I care about

We are living in complex and often fractured times.

IFS offers a way of relating to ourselves and to others that strengthens steadiness, kindness, and connection. As we learn to hold multiple inner and outer experiences without collapsing or polarizing, we discover how intelligent and resourceful our systems truly are.

It is a lived experience of coherence and deeper intimacy — especially when relating feels most difficult.

My warm invitation

I warmly invite you to join me in a small group dedicated to practicing this way of relating.

Over six weeks, we will explore together in a steady and supportive space. This is not about getting it right — it is about showing up, becoming curious, and strengthening your capacity to remain present with yourself.

If this resonates, I would be delighted to welcome you into the group.

What Makes This Group Different

Relational capacity over information

You build the ability to stay in relationship with yourself, not just understand your parts.

Felt sense over categorizing

Relational capacity over information

You learn to recognize parts through lived experience — what you notice in your body, not just labels.

Neurobiological grounding

Relational capacity over information

Neurobiological grounding

We work with how activation actually moves through the nervous system, and how awareness begins to regulate.

From Reactivity to Relationship - An Inner Dialogue Lab

About this series

Six Relational Moves Toward Inner Coherence

This is a 6-week IFS-informed online group focused on practice — not more information

This is a 6-week IFS-informed online group focused on practice — not more information

This is a 6-week IFS-informed online group focused on practice — not more information

Each week centers on a clear theme and a specific relational move

This is a 6-week IFS-informed online group focused on practice — not more information

This is a 6-week IFS-informed online group focused on practice — not more information

This is structured, experiential work. You don’t just understand it. You practice and embody it.

What you'll experience & practice over 6 weeks

Week 1 — Rediscovering Safety to Notice

Week 3 — Staying Present Under Activation

Week 1 — Rediscovering Safety to Notice

Week 2 — Meeting Big Protective Parts

Week 3 — Staying Present Under Activation

Week 1 — Rediscovering Safety to Notice

Week 3 — Staying Present Under Activation

Week 3 — Staying Present Under Activation

Week 4 — Working with Exiles and Vulnerability

Week 4 — Working with Exiles and Vulnerability

Week 6 — Integration and Daily Relational Practice

Week 4 — Working with Exiles and Vulnerability

Week 5 — Creating Internal Coherence

Week 6 — Integration and Daily Relational Practice

Week 6 — Integration and Daily Relational Practice

Week 6 — Integration and Daily Relational Practice

Week 6 — Integration and Daily Relational Practice

Week 6 — Integration and Daily Relational Practice

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Session Structure

Meet Your Facilitator

Katie Priest

What I care about

My warm invitation

Relational change happens one move at a time - from fusion to noticing, from reaction to presence.

What Makes This Group Different

Relational capacity over information

Relational capacity over information

Relational capacity over information

Felt sense over categorizing

Relational capacity over information

Relational capacity over information

Neurobiological grounding

Relational capacity over information

Neurobiological grounding

Checking what lands

Safety through sequencing

Safety through sequencing

Safety through sequencing

Safety through sequencing

Safety through sequencing

Real skills you keep

Safety through sequencing

Real skills you keep

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