The path to becoming a Certified AIFS Practitioner

A transformational journey of healing and awakening

Awakened IFS-2

Six-month intermediate training

You must have completed AIFS-1 or another foundational training in IFS.

  • Gain competence and confidence working with complex systems.

  • Create relational containers conducive to healing.

Trust

Trust the wisdom of the client’s system and the process

Awakened IFS-1

Six-month foundational training

You must be a trained coach, therapist, spiritual director, dietitian, or other healing practitioner.

  • Learn the 18-step Awakened IFS protocol, including unburdening exiles.

  • Bring Presence to your life and work.

Awaken

Develop loving Presence

Awakened IFS-3

Six-month advanced training

You must have completed AIFS-2.

  • Work with spiritual resources in liminal realms.

  • Hold the protocol lightly, letting Presence lead.

Surrender

Become a conduit for the Divine

AIFS Certification

Six-month, small-cohort program of mentorship, practice, and evaluation

You must have completed AIFS-3.

  • Allow the client’s system to teach you how it wants to heal.

  • Play with IFS as it reveals its magic.

Stabilize

Live and work from awake awareness