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

This is a simple method for unblending and externalizing parts—you simply stay with a part and represent it on paper in WHATEVER WAY YOU WANT!

It could just be a scribble. Or a circle. Or a cloud. Or a stick figure. Whatever the part wants. You stay with that representation of the part and get to know it, until it seems to shift…another part arrives. Then you do the same process for the next part. Scribble / draw / represent, stay with, until it shifts…and then you’re on to the next. Eventually you’ll have a page full of parts. As you get to know and represent each part, you can label them or write down notes about what you learn. It’s that simple!

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Because it is such an easy, accessible technique, I always include it in this initial series of four Deeper Intimacy with Yourself (DIY) IFS practice groups.

Parts art / scribbling also has the benefit of appealing to exiles, who enjoy drawing and doodling. Their creativity helps relax managers as long as they can get over their self-criticism about needing to create perfect “art”, which this class is NOT about at all!



Parts Art is so simple, creative, fun and free-flowing, it lends itself to supporting IFS work in almost any situation, and therefore I believe it’s an essential, basic unblending tool for everyone to have in their IFS toolbox.