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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.

🎭 Personality Systems

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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 Welcome to the Free Drama Triangle Course for Everyday People 🎧 Audio is read by AI - Helen 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 insight was that when conflict goes sideways, people aren't just clashing; they're moving through a small set of positions, trading places mid-argument, and that rotation is what turns an ordinary d

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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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Dying: Getting Things in Order Course

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on getting your affairs in order before death, built on one conviction: this work is love, made findable. Fourteen standalone modules cover the whole landscape, the advance directive, living will, healthcare proxy, DNR, POLST, and will, then money and account access, important papers, your digital life, funeral and organ donation wishes, home, belongings, and pets, people to notify, and finishing without overwhelm. Self paced, no tests,

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A person sits at a sunlit wooden table, calmly organizing important documents into a neatly arranged portable file box. The scene is bright and uncluttered, with a framed landscape photo, a small potted plant, a notebook, and a coffee cup nearby. Soft natural daylight fills the cozy living space in the background, creating a sense of order, clarity, and manageable progress rather than stress or urgency. The image conveys the process of getting important affairs organized one step at a time without becoming overwhelmed.

🗝️ Module 14 — Putting It in Order Without Overwhelm | Dying: Getting Things in Order Course

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on putting it all in order without overwhelm: the three steps that buy the most protection per minute, name a healthcare agent, gather everything into one findable place, tell one person where it lives. Discover the items even careful planners forget, from the phone passcode to the storage unit, and follow Ruth, who finished her entire plan in six unhurried weeks of coffee mornings. Plus the yearly review, the honest picture of doing no

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🗝️ Module 13 — People to Notify and Messages to Leave | Dying: Getting Things in Order Course

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on people to notify and messages to leave: the notification list that spares anyone from learning of a death through the obituary, the tiers of telling, and the written permission to leave certain names off entirely. Meet Ruby, the appointed notifier who made thirty-one calls so a grieving husband made only two, and Stan, whose open-when envelopes still arrive on his granddaughter's milestones. Plus the institutions to call, handwritten

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