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Clinician’s Field Guide, Session Structures for Gita-Informed IFS
This article offers clinicians practical, ethical ways to integrate Internal Family Systems with a Bhagavad Gita–informed lens, helping spiritually oriented clients feel safe, grounded, and fully seen in therapy.
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Ethics and Culture, Integrating Scripture and Therapy with Respect
This article offers clinicians ethical guidance for integrating Internal Family Systems with Bhagavad Gita–informed clients, emphasizing cultural humility, consent, and clear scope of practice.
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Arjuna’s Anxiety, A Case Study of Courage in Practice
This article uses Internal Family Systems to reinterpret Arjuna’s crisis in the Bhagavad Gita, showing how Self leadership reorganizes fear, protectors, and courage during life-defining choices.
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Bhakti Without Bypass: Devotion That Heals Protectors (Gita)
This article explores how Internal Family Systems integrates with Bhakti devotion from the Bhagavad Gita, showing how parts work helps devotion heal rather than bypass pain.
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Dharma and Parts: Finding Purpose Without Polarization (Gita)
This article explores how Internal Family Systems helps clarify dharma by working with polarized parts, allowing purpose and right action to emerge without pressure or bypassing.
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Self, Soul, and Nonduality: A Careful Dialogue in the Bhagavad Gita
This article explores how Internal Family Systems relates to the Bhagavad Gita’s teaching on Atman, clarifying where therapeutic Self-leadership aligns with and differs from spiritual selfhood.
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Addiction and Attachment: When Desire Becomes a Fire You Can’t Put Down in the Bhagavad Gita Context
This article explores how Internal Family Systems helps work with desire and craving through a lens that aligns with the Bhagavad Gita, offering a compassionate way to meet urges without shame.
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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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