Winter can be an intense time for relationships, especially during COVID. With the increased time spent indoors, we might find ourselves bumping heads with our partner, wishing we had a partner, or reflecting on the quality of our relationships with lovers, family, friends and colleagues.

In this interactive workshop, we will use writing as a path to accessing more curiosity and compassion towards the parts of ourselves that get triggered by our interactions with other humans.

The IFS Writing lab is a new and evolving program designed to create a safe, interactive space to experiment with various writing techniques that access Self energy, as described in Internal Family Systems (IFS). The lab will integrate both IFS inquiry, and perspective-bending exercises I created and taught at the NY Open Center, JCC of Manhattan and 92nd Street Y, based on my book Step Out of Your Story.

This workshop is open to everyone, however previous knowledge of IFS is strongly recommended. Participants will learn a framework and tools that can be used both personally and professionally, especially by those in the mental health field.

Kim Schneiderman, LCSW, is an IFS psychotherapist with the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute (PSI) in Manhattan. She is also the author of Step Out of Your Story: Writing Exercises to Reframe and Transform Your Life (New World Library, 2015) and the Novel Perspective blog on Psychology Today. She has taught self-discovery writing workshops at the New York Open Center, the 92nd Street Y, the JCC of Manhattan, Vassar College, Sivananda Yoga Ashram in the Bahamas, among other venues, and has lectured on the spirituality of crisis and conflict at NYU’s Post-Graduate certificate program in Social Work and Spiritual Care and PSI’s Summer Certificate Program in Spiritually Informed Psychotherapies. Her self-paced online DailyOm course, Reframing Your Narrative About Challenging Relationships offers perspective-bending writing exercises including IFS-inspired dialogues with triggered parts. You can read more about Kim on her website stepoutofyourstory.com