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Colorful Hexaflex model showing ACT’s six core processes—acceptance, defusion, self-as-context, committed action, values, and present-moment awareness—overlooking a bright mountain lake.

🎯Module 3 — The Hexaflex, the Triflex, and Psychological Flexibility | ACT Course

: A free IFS Academy course on the Hexaflex, the Triflex, and psychological flexibility in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): what psychological flexibility actually means as the goal of ACT, how the six core processes interlock on the Hexaflex and group into the Triflex of Open Up, Be Present, and Do What Matters, the twin problems ACT targets in cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance, and the toward-moves and away-moves lens that runs beneath every later tool. Ev

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A seriously ill woman sits alone at a cluttered kitchen table covered with medical paperwork, prescription bottles, family photographs, legal documents, and handwritten notes. Wearing a loose gray hoodie and a nasal oxygen cannula, she stares anxiously at a medical report while resting her head in her hand. A portable oxygen concentrator stands beside her chair, and an open laptop sits among folders labeled with important end-of-life tasks. Bright daylight streams through a nearby window, illuminating the overwhelming reality of trying to organize a life while facing a terminal illness. The image conveys fear, urgency, exhaustion, and the daunting process of getting affairs in order before death.

🗝️ Module 1 — What Is Getting Things in Order? | Dying: Getting Things in Order Course

A free IFS Academy course on getting things in order at the end of life from the Death and Dying Series: what putting affairs in order actually involves, the permission to do only what fits, working in ten-minute pieces when energy is low, and the three territories the whole work falls into. Every lesson ends with an IFS and parts work exercise so you can begin working with what you learn.

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A seriously ill older man rests in a hospital bed beside a sunlit window, quietly gazing into the distance. Family photographs and a small plant on a nearby table suggest reflection on relationships, life experiences, and unfinished wishes as he contemplates the end of life.

🥀 Module 1 — What Are Deathbed Regrets? | Deathbed Regrets Course

A free course by Everything IFS Academy answering the question, what are deathbed regrets: learn the line between ordinary nostalgia and the unfinished thing that rises when time runs visibly short, through Walter's thirty-year silence with his brother roaring awake at a diagnosis. Discover the honest scale, why almost no one reaches the end at zero, the two kinds of work every regret allows, repair in the world and completion within, and the full map of the course ahead, fro

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Back view of a woman with short, curly gray hair seated in a comfortable chair near a sunlit window. Surrounded by books, plants, and personal photographs, she appears quietly reflective in a warm home setting, representing Bronnie Ware's work exploring the life lessons and regrets commonly shared by people nearing the end of life.

🥀 Module 2 — Who Is Bronnie Ware? | Deathbed Regrets Course

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on Bronnie Ware, the unlikely founder of deathbed regret knowledge: follow her path from soul-starving banking work into palliative caregiving with no qualifications, living in the homes of the dying through their last three to twelve weeks. Discover the 2009 blog post on Inspiration and Chai that reached three million readers in a year, the 2012 bestseller The Top Five Regrets of the Dying translated into more than thirty languages, an

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