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Five symbolic sculptures representing the love languages—Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Receiving Gifts, Quality Time, and Physical Touch—are arranged on a wooden table before a bright mountain river view. Together, they introduce the core concepts of The Five Love Languages and the many ways people express and receive love.

💞 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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A person stands at the center of a circular stone pathway divided into four colors—white, red, yellow, and blue—facing a breathtaking landscape where four winding paths lead toward a bright horizon. Each path passes through a landscape marked by a tree representing one of the four Color Code personality types, symbolizing different motivations, strengths, and approaches to life. The image conveys self-discovery, personal growth, and the journey of understanding both yourself and others.

🎨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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A person stands before a monumental circular stone sculpture divided into five symbolic sections while looking out across a vast sunlit coastal landscape. The image represents the Big Five personality model as five interconnected dimensions that together create the rich diversity of human personality, inviting exploration and self-understanding rather than placing people into rigid personality types.

🌊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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A circular four-piece puzzle stands upright on a wooden table, with each colorful section representing one of the Four Tendencies: Upholder (blue with a checklist icon), Questioner (yellow with a magnifying glass), Obliger (green with a handshake icon), and Rebel (red with a lightning bolt). A small potted plant and a stack of smooth stones sit beside the puzzle, while a bright mountain lake, distant city skyline, and clear blue sky create a vivid outdoor backdrop, illustrating how the four distinct motivational styles fit together as one unified framework.

🧭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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A monumental stone sculpture inspired by the Enneagram symbol stands on a mountain overlook, with nine colored spheres connected by elegant metal lines inside a circular stone ring. A calm lake, rolling forested hills, and distant mountains stretch into the background beneath a bright blue sky with scattered clouds, creating a peaceful, contemplative scene that symbolizes the interconnected patterns of personality.

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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📜 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.

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📜 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

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📜 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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