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Module 2 — Who is Francine Shapiro? EMDR Course
A free IFS Academy course on Francine Shapiro, the founder of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): her 1987 observation in a park that eye movements eased distressing thoughts, the growth from the original EMD technique into a comprehensive eight-phase therapy, her decision to test the discovery with controlled research rather than simply trust it, the EMDR Institute and the professional community that formed around her work, and the early skepticism that ran
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🎯 Module 4 — Workability and Creative Hopelessness | ACT Course
A free IFS Academy course on workability and creative hopelessness in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): the control agenda and experiential avoidance, why suppressing feelings backfires, the workability question, clean pain and dirty pain, the struggle switch, and dropping the rope. Every lesson ends with an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.
The Final Freedom: Nothing Left to Say, No One Left to Say It (Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter Twenty)
A free reflection on Chapter Twenty of the Ashtavakra Gita, The Final Freedom, the closing chapter of the whole dialogue, read through Internal Family Systems (IFS). Explore the king's final dissolution of body, mind, teaching, and even the "I" that had been speaking, into the bodiless freedom (videhamukti) where the dialogue trails off into silence, and how IFS distinguishes the genuine Self that holds every part with room to spare from a part that uses the language of no-se
Resting in One's Own Majesty: Where Did It All Go? (Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter Nineteen)
A free reflection on Chapter Nineteen of the Ashtavakra Gita, Resting in One's Own Majesty, read through Internal Family Systems (IFS). Explore the king's exultant sweep through every pair of opposites, the tweezers of knowledge drawing out the last thorn of thought, his amazed "where is it now?" from the throne of his own being (svamahima), and how IFS distinguishes a genuine spaciousness in which the old troubles have lost their grip from a part that prematurely declares th
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