IFS Parts & Psychedelics

A 4-week Course Guiding the Inner System

through IFS and Psychedelic Integration

In Collaboration with Life Architect

About 

This four-part module series introduces key Internal Family Systems (IFS) concepts and how we utilize them in preparation, journey, and integration of psychedelic journeys. 

Applying IFS can maximize impact and safety within Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT). 

Our time together will be a blend between didactic and experiential exercises giving you time to learn content and practice. 

Case stories will enhance concepts and practices of this work. Four four-hour modules will be broken down as follows:

• Module 1 – Overview of the IFS Model: Basic IFS Principals (85% IFS and 15% PAT) [This is the basis for all other modules.]
• Module 2 – Deepening our Inquiry into the Protective System: Protector Fears (both in regular sessions and as relates to journeys) and Reassurances (50% IFS and 50% PAT)
• Module 3 – Polarizations, Following the Thread, and Guides and Unattached Burdens (50% IFS and 50% PAT)
• Module 4 – The Guide’s Set and Setting – How We Use IFS in Preparation, Journey, and Integration, as well as Integration with Post-Unburdening Maintenance and Neuroplasticity (90% PAT - putting it all together).

This course is for those who are already facilitating psychedelic journeys, plan to, are facilitating preparation and integration, or have been trained in PAT and planning to offer services. 

Although a background in IFS and facilitation is helpful during this course, it is not mandatory to be a facilitator or working in the field to join. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Identify the four goals of IFS
• Apply basics of IFS in your psychedelic services
• Identify and distinguish your Self from your parts (and those of your clients)
• Speak for rather than from your parts and learn why this is important

Why Internal Family Systems? 

• In over 80% of psychedelic journeys “parts” come up spontaneously
• It’s non-pathologizing and non-judgmental
• Psychedelics can open up the space of “Self”
• Knowing about your own system begins to provide for safety in the medicine space
• IFS is evidence-based and the fastest growing modality
• It provides for deeper transformational healing
• It’s a methodology that has a solid foundation and has gained incredible interest

Schedule 

4xTuesdays 27th October - 17th November

• Tuesday 27th October 4pm-8pm (GMT) / 8am-12:00pm (PST)
• Tuesday 3rd November 4pm-8pm (GMT) / 8am-12:00pm (PST)
• Tuesday 10th November 4pm-8pm (GMT) / 8am-12:00pm (PST)
• Tuesday 17th November 4pm-8pm (GMT) / 8am-12:00pm (PST)

Your Facilitator 

Michelle Glass is a Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner, Oregon Licensed Psilocbyin 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 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® was trademarked in Spring 2022 and contains six tools of integration which is now also available in both English and Spanish. These tools of integration can also 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. Michelle is currently writing a workbook for psychedelic preparation and integration using the DPMP® tools. A complementary series of IFS-inspired preparation and integration for psychedelic journeys will be available in early 2025 (as well as available within the Sentur app). 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 better 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. 

She used IFS to heal from a traumatic childhood and is now an enthusiastic Hope Merchant. Michelle wants to help everyone experience that same healing. She takes great pleasure in bringing more Self-energy and Self-leadership to psychedelic facilitators, creating safer medicine spaces. Michelle is honored to have both Dick Schwartz and Gabor Maté as mentors and friends. She is the proud mother and step-mother of three incredible grown children. Outside of her work life, she enjoys regular visits to ocean, gardening, canning and drying garden produce, camping, cooking, listening to podcasts, writing, and time spent with friends and family.

Life Architect

Life Architect is an education and retreat organization dedicated to empowering mental health professionals through immersive, transformative learning experiences. Rooted in a deep respect for psychotherapy’s potential to heal individuals and communities, Life Architect equips practitioners with advanced skills while supporting their own inner development.

As International Partners of the IFS Institute between 2019 and 2025, Life Architect brought official Internal Family Systems (IFS) training to Poland and has since evolved into an integrative platform that blends IFS with complementary modalities. Through thoughtfully designed online programs, in-person workshops, and retreats, the organization creates nurturing spaces where professionals can deepen their clinical expertise, engage in personal transformation, and grow within a supportive community.

Every program is carefully curated to combine practical tools, experiential learning, and seamless organization—allowing participants to fully immerse themselves in a safe, compassionate environment that fosters both professional excellence and authentic self-development.

Your Organiser 

Callum is the Marketing & Community Manager for The Psychedelic Society and a life-long learner in the exploration of consciousness and the mystical arts. He has completed a MSc in Medical Anthropology at University College London where he specialised in research on the phenomenology of consciousness, psychedelics and the therapeutic and healing arts across the world. 

Callum is a Trauma-Informed Body-Worker and Somatic Therapist whose training includes Somatic Muscle Release, Somatic Alignment,  Myofascial Release, Advanced Deep tissue Massage, Breathwork and the Shamanic arts. Callum is passionate about the innate wisdom and intelligence of the body to both find equanimity and balance but also explore ecstatic and altered states of consciousness. He is a passionate advocate of somatic and psychedelic experiences that are grounded in transpersonal philosophy and psychology. These are the experiences that cultivate the experience and wisdom to remember and embody deeper connection with ourselves, others, nature and the beyond. Follow Callum on Instagram at @calibraid 

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