WORKSHOP
Why It Matters to Know Who You Are:
The Reality of Multiple Minds Changes Everything about Your Life
With Guest Teacher, Acclaimed Author, Groundbreaking IFS Therapist and Consultant, Spiritual Care Facilitator, Bob Falconer
The Center for Deep Self Design is honored to collaborate with acclaimed author, therapist, groundbreaking Internal Family Systems (IFS) consultant, and teacher Robert (Bob) Falconer for a trilogy of live half-day workshops. The first workshop in the series, Why It Matters to Know Who You Are, will teach the most credible and useful understanding of our human mind and make clear how that understanding transforms lives and society for the better.
More About the Workshop
In the Western World, despite heaps of evidence to the contrary, we are convinced we have one, unified mind. We believe that “I” or “ME” = one governing unit out of which all thoughts, ideas, and impulses emerge. (This is often referred to as the “mono-mind” idea.) We also believe our job is to be “in control of” or “in charge of” that unit.
The problem with this delusion is that IT AMPLIFIES CONFLICT INSIDE OUR MINDS—crippling our creativity, wasting energy uselessly, and severely limiting our potential. Research across disciplines has demonstrated time and again there is no such thing as a concrete, static, unitary YOU that stays the same in each situation or even in each moment. Clinging to this idea does not serve us. What does serve us is embracing the reality that our mind is composed of multiple “Little Minds” or “Parts” that long to work fluidly together, like an orchestra. Respecting this design helps us tune into our inner world, where we’ll quickly discover we’re frequently - unnecessarily - at odds with ourselves, even when evaluating a single topic.
Is there a way to approach ourselves differently? There is. Join us to learn what that path looks like and why it matters so much.
Workshop Outcomes
After this learning experience, you will have:
a practical understanding of the multiplicity of mind
a strong sense of how this understanding impacts energy, clarity, productivity, and creativity
greater confidence in your capacity to transform self-conflicts into internal cooperation
an enhanced sense of self-trust and self-confidence
practical ways to disrupt internal polarizations and civil wars that take place in your mind, uselessly wasting energy and effort
an appreciation of the porosity of mind (the subject of the third workshop in the trilogy!), which increases your access to deep sources of creativity and inspiration
About Robert Falconer
Robert (Bob) Falconer is one of the most seasoned and sought-after practitioners of a psychotherapeutic model now exploding in popularity called Internal Family Systems (IFS). In 2017, Bob co-authored Many Minds, One Self with the founder of the IFS model, Richard (Dick) Schwartz, and has learned from and trained with Dick for decades.
Bob is now focused on expanding the edges of IFS, placing it in a multicultural, historical and consciousness-expanding context. His 2023 book, The Others Within Us, addresses energies and influences we find in our minds that are not part of our personal psychological systems. This book leads the Western reader to another paradigm-shattering realization: that we are not separate from a vast field of invisible others and, in fact, our minds are permeable. This can be understood as a natural 'porosity of mind' and it will be the theme of Bob's second workshop in our trilogy. To help us navigate these new, sometimes startling realities of our psychic structure, Bob most recently published a collection of quotations and short stories called When You’re Going Through Hell...Keep Going.