IFS Videos

Recorded IFS sessions and workshops with Melissa Sandfort. Buy once and return to them anytime within your access period — learn at your own pace, on your own schedule.

Mary: A complete IFS Session from Unblending to Unburdening

Watch a complete IFS session unfold from beginning to end. Mary unblends from her protectors and meets a young exile — a little girl whose sparkle was crushed — inside a vivid childhood memory, and with Melissa’s guidance moves all the way through witnessing to a full unburdening, releasing a charge she’d carried for “500 years.” A rare chance to see the entire arc of the IFS process in one sitting: unblending, befriending, witnessing, and unburdening — plus practical wisdom on speaking for your parts rather than from them, and checking in with parts after a session.

$35.00

Mary 2: A Spiritual Seeker Returns to Self After Betrayal and Loss

In this heart-opening video, Mary drops into the deep waters of grief, identity, and longing—guided by the internal rhythms of her parts. What begins as a hesitation to name what’s coming up, turns into a journey of emotional courage and raw discovery.

$35.00

Koala: Working with an Activated Firefighter

Internal Family Systems (IFS) demonstration session of working with a very activated firefighter!

$35.00

Sara's Beams: Working with Manager / Firefighter Polarizations

If you're looking for IFS approaches to unblending from polarized firefighters and mangers, this IFS demonstration is for you!

$35.00

Rhino: A Firefighter Unburdens a Legacy Burden of Abandonment

A very thorough example of both unburdening, and a legacy burden unburdening of abandonment, and a whole lot more!

$35.00

IFS + Finger Puppets Workshop & Demo: Fox Out of the Box

An advanced IFS demonstration of an exuberant exile coming to understand why the protectors stifled her in the past A 30-minute IFS demonstration of Melissa from 2012, followed by 30 minutes of Q & A from the December, 2024 Fox Out of the Box Workshop

$35.00

Kate (1): Helping Managers Soften—Shifting “You Should” to “I” Statements

With Melissa’s expert guidance, Kate learns to shift from self-criticism to self-compassion, transforming harsh inner commands into a more relational, “I”-centered dialogue.

$35.00

Kate (2): Anxiety, ADHD and the Inner Critic: A Journey to Self-Compassion

In this session, Melissa, an IFS (Internal Family Systems) Life Coach, helps Kate explore struggles with managing time, energy, and tasks, in the context of ADHD and neurodiversity.

$35.00

Intro to IFS: Understanding Your Inner System

This Intro to Internal Family Systems (IFS) describes the relationship between the Self and parts (Managers, Firefighters, and Exiles). It covers how parts function, their protective roles, and techniques for engaging with them, such as the Five F's.

$50.00

Green: A Manager Faces the Future—Fear vs Faith

This a deep, introspective dialogue between Self-energy, A, and Green, a manager. The conversation revolves around fears about the future, particularly in the context of economic uncertainty and career decisions.

$35.00

Kristen Bell’s Sloth Meltdown Helps Dee Process Podcast Panic (Audio Course)

In this audio IFS session, an exile, Dee, panics about creating her podcast. A manager, Green, offers a thorough apology, offering the gift of Swedish fish for repair. Listen and learn about how to use gifts to say "I'm sorry" in IFS! And much, much more!

$23.00

Let Your Parts Move the Pen! Scribbling / Parts Art for Unblending!

Another name for this class is simply “parts doodling” or “scribbling.” You do NOT need to be artistic to take this class! This is the main technique Richard Schwartz, the founder of IFS, uses in all his introductory workshops. I invite you to try it!

$35.00

Let Your Parts Have the Pen! How to Use Stream-of-Consciousness Drawing to Unblend in IFS!

A powerful course that enabled students to use stream-of-consciousness drawing / sketching / scribbling / doodling to externalize and unblend from parts in powerful and moving ways! The live course is over, but you can access it here in this recording!

$150.00

Inner Conference Table! $150

A comprehensive overview of the outstanding IFS externalization method -- The Conference Table! Over 10 IFS workshops and 4 separate individual IFS sessions using this method are included, plus much, much more!

$150.00

Conference Table Workshop

One of the simplest, most accessible methods for unblending from parts and keeping them organized. Great for systems with overwhelmed managers, beginners, and anyone who needs a method to keep track of a lot of parts or to help with very complicated decisions involving a lot of parts!

$35.00

The Room Technique on Paper

An imagination technique for flushing out your parts: put a person who triggers you into an imagined “room” — any room your parts want — step outside, and let whatever comes up come up, uncensored. Includes a quick intro plus two complete on-paper demos: Melissa follows rage and grief all the way back to their true source, and Joseph works with an agitated protector fiercely defending a bullied inner child.

$35.00

For participants only

Intro to IFS: Understanding Your Inner System - Focus On Addictions

An introduction to Internal Family Systems with a focus on addictions — how the Self relates to parts (Managers, Firefighters, and Exiles), why protective parts work as hard as they do, and what shifts when the exiles underneath them finally get heard. Includes the written Introduction to IFS (about 8 pages), the workshop's key learnings, and next action steps. This is the written companion to the live workshop, so there is no video recording.

Participants only

For participants only