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IFS Book of Ruth Course: A Story of Loyalty, Loss, and Redemption
This free course explores the Book of Ruth as a story of famine, loyalty, loss, and redemption shaped by ordinary courage. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites a slower reading of faithfulness formed under pressure without turning Scripture into therapy.
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IFS Book of Esther Course: When God Seems Absent
This free course explores the Book of Esther for seasons when God feels silent, distant, or unnamed. Thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems, it invites readers to notice hidden providence, courage, and faith under empire without turning Scripture into therapy.
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IFS Ten Commandments Course
The Ten Commandments were not given as threats or moral hurdles, but as words of freedom spoken to a people already rescued. This course explores each commandment as a matter of allegiance, relationship, and trust—revealing how these ancient words still speak to the human heart today through Scripture, history, and an Internal Family Systems–informed lens.
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IFS Genesis Creation Course
Genesis creation is not a scientific explanation or a timeline to defend, but a sacred composition shaped by poetry, rhythm, and meaning. This course invites you to encounter Genesis 1 as ancient theological literature—exploring creation, light, order, and Sabbath through Scripture, history, and an Internal Family Systems–informed lens that honors the text without flattening its depth.
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The Book of Genesis Course: What You Were Never Taught
Genesis is often read quickly and taught simply, but it was written with literary sophistication, theological depth, and intentional design. This course invites you to slow the text back down—exploring creation, the image of God, the fall, and family rivalry through Scripture, historical context, and an Internal Family Systems–informed lens that honors Genesis without flattening its meaning.
That catches the spirit of the course without repeating language from the other Gene
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IFS Genesis Course: A Sacred Journey Through the Book of Beginnings
Genesis is more than an origin story or a moral primer—it is a sacred narrative about presence, trust, rupture, and mercy. This course invites Christians to journey through Genesis with historical depth and an Internal Family Systems–informed lens, engaging the text with honesty and reverence without flattening its meaning or turning Scripture into therapy.
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) Course
A free IFS Academy course on Motivational Interviewing (MI) for beginners, taught in plain language as the real method of Miller and Rollnick. Covers what MI is, the spirit of MI (PACE), the core skills (OARS), the four processes, change talk and sustain talk, evoking, and planning, across twelve short lessons. Ends with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work practice.
Module 12 — MI as a Way of Being | Motivational Interviewing Course
A free IFS Academy course on the closing idea of Motivational Interviewing: MI as a way of being rather than a toolkit. Covers how every MI skill expresses one underlying stance, why the spirit is what people actually feel, how to recognize good MI from the receiving end, turning MI inward toward your own ambivalence, and using MI in everyday conversations with family, friends, and colleagues. Ends with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work practice.
Module 10 — Sharing Information and Advice the MI Way | Motivational Interviewing Course
A free IFS Academy course on sharing information and advice the MI way, using Elicit-Provide-Elicit. Answers whether you can give advice in Motivational Interviewing, and covers asking permission first, the elicit-provide-elicit method, offering options instead of directives, and the chunk-check-chunk rhythm for longer information. Ends with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work practice.
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