The pilot research IFS and complex PTSD study has been completed at the Cambridge Health Alliance, clearing the way for the full study. Read more about it and about a new council that the Foundation assembled in this edition of OUTLOOK Shorts.
New IFS-related articles appear in professional journals
A new research article by Michael Fitzgerald, Assistant professor in Child and Family Sciences at the University of Mississippi was recently published in The American Journal of Family Therapy. In his study of 303 students at two different universities, his paper, Cool, Calm, and Collected: The Associations Between Self-Leadership and Adult Mental and Relational Health Outcomes, showed results that higher Self-leadership, as measured by the 25-item IFS Self Scale, was associated with lower anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and dissociation. Greater Self-leadership was also associated with greater positive relationship quality, and less negative relationship quality.
The Foundation is pleased to release the November 2020 Edition of OUTLOOK.
Browse through the special IFS Gallery 35, celebrating IFS authors and commemorating 35 years of growth for the IFS Model. Learn from "innervention" program leaders, who share about their experience during COVID - Teaching by Being in Self, Small Businesses Showing Adaptability & Resilience, Tips for Home Learning, Self-Care for the Caregiver, Befriending our Fear in Pandemic time; and stand with the Foundation Family as we extend profound gratitude to all the heroes in the community and affirm the imperative of racial justice during these uncertain times.
This issue of OUTLOOK also features the Foundation's online panel session about Uncovering Legacy Burdens of Racism; and largest funded research project to date.
Other Community updates include: Transition of all training programs to online realm in 2020; Stories of Transformation, and a number of Foundation's operational updates.
Holding onto compassion and hope, take a retrospective glimpse at this especially challenging year as we bid farewell to it & discover an early article by Dick Schwartz on Internal Family Systems.
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With all that is going on in the world and the overwhelming pressures exerted on all of us, holding onto hope and building inner strength are critical. To provide some respite away from this overwhelm, the Foundation releases a series of inspirational videos in partnership with Anna Huckabee Tull. The intent is to send out a reminder through these short and original creations that resilience, calm and solace are within our reach.
The series is posted on the Foundation’s special Playlist, Journey to Self, on its YouTube® channel.
Conceptualized and produced by the Foundation, the series showcases the music of Ms. Huckabee Tull and excerpts from her book Living the Deeper Yes. As we were putting together this collection of quotes from her recent book, music from her songs, and photographs taken by her throughout the course of the merciless global pandemic, Anna said that “something magical happened” for her. “Deep within me, parts that had been hurting, holding, waiting, struggling, and persevering throughout this challenging time began to feel newly heard, making way for some place deeper within me to fill with warmth and love and to dance once again!"
May these videos be inspiring, help sustain the viewer for a moment or two, and invite one’s inner strength to rise to the forefront… and “new ways forward, in deeper harmony with the voices within us and the world around us.”
