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💞 Five Love Languages | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on the Five Love Languages: Gary Chapman's beloved framework taught pure and in plain language, from the love tank and the in-love experience through Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch, to discovering a primary love language. Every lesson ends with an IFS and parts work practice so you can begin applying what you learned.
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🎨Color Code | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on the Color Code personality system: Taylor Hartman's four driving core motives, the full portraits of Red, Blue, White, and Yellow, how the colors pair in relationships, and the charactered path of growing beyond your own color. Every lesson ends with an IFS and parts work practice so you can begin applying what you learned.
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🌊Big Five (OCEAN) | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on the Big Five / OCEAN model of personality: nine lessons covering the model's founderless origins, how trait dimensions and facets work, all five personality dimensions each opened in its own lesson, and how the traits combine in everyday life. Every lesson ends with an IFS and parts work practice so you can begin applying what you learned.
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🧭Four Tendencies | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on the Four Tendencies, Gretchen Rubin's framework for understanding how people respond to expectations: a full beginner-friendly course covering the framework's foundations, all four tendencies, the tendency overlaps, and how to use the lens in everyday life. Every lesson ends with an IFS and parts work practice so you can begin applying what you learned.
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🔺Drama Triangle | Free Course
Free Course by Everything IFS Academy | Personality Series Help us reach the people who may need this most by sharing this free course with friends, family, colleagues, online communities, social media or on your own website. 🎧 Audio - Listen as you go - Helen 🔺Welcome to the Free Drama Triangle Course for Everyday People In 1968, a psychiatrist named Stephen Karpman noticed something hiding in the fairy tales everyone grows up on, and drew it as a simple triangle. His ins
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9️⃣ The Enneagram| Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on the Enneagram for everyday people: the nine personality types from the Reformer to the Peacemaker, core fears and desires, wings, the arrows of stress and growth, the Levels of Health, and the three instincts, taught in plain language with real-life examples. Every lesson ends with an IFS and parts work practice so you can begin applying what you learned.
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🎱 David Hume | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on the complete philosophy of David Hume: the copy principle, Hume's fork, the problem of induction, the bundle theory of the self, the is-ought problem, moral sentimentalism, Of Miracles, and the critique of the design argument. Every lesson ends with an IFS and parts work integration practice so you can begin working with the ideas, not just reading about them.
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👆Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on the complete toolkit of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): the tapping points and Basic Recipe, the Setup Statement, the Movie and Tell the Story techniques, the gentle methods for heavy material, the Personal Peace Procedure, and Borrowing Benefits. Every lesson ends with an Emotional Freedom Techniques practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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🐅Somatic Experiencing (SE) | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on Somatic Experiencing (SE), Dr. Peter Levine's body-first approach to healing trauma and chronic stress: fifteen self-paced modules moving from what SE is and how it came to exist through the complete toolkit of nervous system skills the modality is known for. Every lesson ends with a Somatic Experiencing practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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⚖️Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT): the ABC model, the three basic musts, awfulizing, unconditional self-acceptance, disputing irrational beliefs, rational emotive imagery, and shame-attacking exercises. Every lesson ends with a Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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👁️ Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for everyday people: how stuck memories keep firing in the present tense, the eight phases, bilateral stimulation, the stabilization toolkit, negative and positive cognitions, and the future template. Every lesson ends with an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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🪑 Gestalt Therapy | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on Gestalt Therapy: the present-centered, experiential therapy founded by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls, and Paul Goodman, covering awareness skills, the contact interruptions, unfinished business, the empty chair, and dream work across thirteen modules. Every lesson ends with a Gestalt Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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🐚Sandplay Therapy | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on Sandplay Therapy, Dora Kalff's Jungian method of healing through worlds built in sand: the free and protected space, the tray and the miniatures, the silent witness, the language of symbols, the stages of the process, and sandplay across the lifespan. Every lesson ends with a Sandplay Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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🧭Motivational Interviewing (MI) | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on Motivational Interviewing (MI): the spirit of MI, ambivalence and the righting reflex, the four processes, the OARS skills, change talk and the DARN CAT taxonomy, evoking, values and discrepancy, and building a change plan. Every lesson ends with a Motivational Interviewing practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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🌀Hypnotherapy | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on hypnotherapy for everyday people: the trance state, the classic suggestibility tests, hypnotic inductions and deepeners, direct and Ericksonian suggestion, therapeutic metaphor, the safe place, self-hypnosis, ego strengthening, and mental rehearsal. Every lesson ends with a Hypnotherapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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🔍 Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | I-CBT Course
A free IFS Academy course on treating OCD at its source in Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT): obsessional doubt and where it comes from, inferential confusion, the story that makes a doubt feel real, the OCD bubble, reality sensing, and the feared self and the real self. Every lesson ends with an Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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🗝️ Jungian Therapy | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on Jungian therapy: Carl Jung's map of the psyche, the shadow and shadow work, dream work, active imagination, the archetypes, complexes, psychological types, synchronicity, and individuation, taught in plain language for everyday people. Every lesson ends with a Jungian therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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🔭Metacognitive Therapy (MCT) | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on Metacognitive Therapy (MCT), Adrian Wells's approach to worry and rumination: the Cognitive Attentional Syndrome, metacognitive beliefs, detached mindfulness, the Attention Training Technique, worry postponement, and the belief-challenging experiments, all in plain language for everyday people. Every lesson ends with a Metacognitive Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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🎋Confucius | Free Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on Confucius: meet Kongzi, Master Kong, the wandering teacher of ancient China who lived from 551 to 479 BCE and shaped Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese life for over two thousand years. Twelve plain English modules cover his life and world, the way of learning, ren, li, xiao, the junzi, the golden rule, the rectification of names, governing by virtue, Tian and the spirits, and carrying his wisdom into everyday life.
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🧠Brainspotting | Free Course
A free IFS Academy course on Brainspotting (BSP) for everyday people: the complete method from David Grand's core insight through the three ways of finding a brainspot, the frame that holds the work, the grounding tools, the advanced refinements, and performance applications. Every lesson ends with a Brainspotting practice so you can begin applying the skill.
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📜 Module 13 — Thinking Like Aquinas: The Lens in Everyday Life | Thomas Aquinas Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on thinking like Thomas Aquinas: discover the lens his separate arguments add up to. Explore his conviction that reality is intelligible, the both/and instinct that fused faith with reason and Aristotle with Christianity, and the purpose question asked of things, actions, and whole lives. Revisit the dumb ox who out-argued his century, his final verdict that his life’s work was straw, and the January 28 feast day.
📜 Module 12 — Just War: When Is War Permissible? | Thomas Aquinas Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on just war theory: follow how Thomas Aquinas, building on Augustine, answered whether waging war is always sinful. Learn his three conditions of legitimate authority, just cause, and right intention, then trace how Vitoria, Suárez, and Grotius developed jus ad bellum and jus in bello into modern international law and the Geneva Conventions. Weigh the pacifist objection from turning the other cheek and the charge that every nation claim
📜 Module 11 — The Principle of Double Effect | Thomas Aquinas Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on the principle of double effect: when it is right to do good knowing harm will follow, the four conditions that decide it, and why it explains the trolley problem, end of life care, and the ethics of war. In plain English for everyday people.
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