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YEAR ONE:
Introduction To Internal Family Systems (Second Edition), Richard Schwartz
Compassion In Practice – The Way of Jesus, Frank Rogers Jr.
The Spirit-Led Life: A Christian Encounter with Internal Family Systems, Mary Steege
Rogers, Frank “Compassion-Based Spiritual Direction: Internal Family Systems as a Resource for Spiritual Companions” Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction 26, 4 (December 2020): pp 50-54, 56-60.
YEAR TWO:
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, Richard Schwartz
Altogether You: Experiencing personal and spiritual transformation with Internal Family Systems therapy, Jenna Riemersma
The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom, Henri J.M. Nouwen
Journey to Shalom: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Freedom In Sacred Stories, Molly LaCroix
Litanies of the Heart, Gerry Ken Crete
Boundaries for Your Soul: How to Turn Your Overwhelming Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies, Alison Cook and Kimberley Miller
Basic Introduction to IFS:
Holmes, Tom – Parts Work & Inner Active Cards for Parts Work – 3rd edition (a brief and very accessible introduction)
West, Colleen, LMFT – The IFS Flip Chart – A Psycho-educational Tool for Unlocking the Incredible Healing Potential of the Multiple Mind
Anderson, Frank, Sweezy, Martha, Schwatrz, Richard – Internal Family Systems – Skills Training Manual
Schwartz, Jon & Brennan, Bill – There’s a Part of Me…
Colleen West – We All Have Parts: An Illustrated Guide to Healing Trauma with Internal Family Systems
Bessel van der Kolk M.D – The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Christian Spirituality and IFS:
Rogers, Frank – “Warriors of Compassion: Coordinates on the Compass of Compassion-Based Activism” chapter in Taking it to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance, Editor Jennifer Baldwin (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2019)
Benner, David G. – The Gift of Being Yourself
Compassion-Based Spiritual Direction and IFS:
Diaz, Luz Marina “IFS-Informed Spiritual Direction and Supervision” Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction 28, 4 (December 2022)
Cabigting, Neil “Cultivating Inner Hospitality: The Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model and the Supervision of Spiritual Directors” Academia.edu January 1, 2020
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