welcome to my village!

Co-creating community from the inside out

Find IFS (Internal Family Systems) groupwork and IFS informed events held by IFS practitioners and therapists in the UK and online.

My Village is a global movement of people committed to practicing and embodying qualities of self-leadership. You are part of this movement if you also strive to practice embodying the qualities of self-leadership, and to connect in community in a self-led way! My Village offers a directory of Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed group events for beginners through to professionals.

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For IFS practitioners

If you are an IFS professional (practitioner or therapist), you may list your events, workshops, training, and other IFS informed group or community spaces on this directory. Fill out this google form if you would like to become a member and list your events here.

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For everyone

If you would like to access and attend IFS-informed events for your own healing and self-development, professional practice, training or other needs, you can use the event listings to find something that suits your current aim.

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For elders

We are aware of the significant role Elders play in any healthy village, and the need for Elders in our modern culture (regardless of age – young elders are welcome too!). If you hold experience in IFS, IFIO, and other mediation or repair oriented modalities you are invited to contribute your skill and wisdom (either voluntary, paid, or both) to facilitate repair for those in rupture processes.

This can support our wider communities to stay strong and connected, to learn and model healthy conflict resolution processes, and to feel supported when in need. If you are interested in offering this please get in touch.

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For communities

If you are part of an organisation, company, intentional community, community interest group, activist group, family, or other kind of community, and you need support to re-establish the qualities of self-leadership with whatever issue you are facing, please reach out to let us know how we can help.

Thanks to the contributions of Elders, My Village can organise a curated space to facilitate brave conversations, gain clarity, creative solutions, confidence and courage to face challenges directly, and allow mutual compassion to flow between members and within each member of your community.

ABOUT IFS

A cutting-edge modality

Each of us is not just one single unified consciousness. If you notice what is happening in your inner world, it may seem more like a village – a tribe of inner ‘parts’. Aside from these ‘parts’ we also have an essential Self, with the qualities of curiosity, calm, clarity, connectedness, compassion, courage, creativity, and confidence. Ideally, we are led by our true essential Self – our tribe leader! However, often our parts will take control, and these parts can be in conflict or peace, agreement or disagreement, harmony or dissonance with one another. Some of our parts are burdened with the pain of the past, or with role that aim to protect us from that pain, and from it happening again. Some of these parts act in ways that don’t represent our full self, and often have the opposite impact to their good intentions. This understanding is intuitive. The global movement of Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) has made understanding this easy and accessible, offering a shared language to make better sense of our inner experience.

Each of us is embedded also in an ‘outer village’ – those people we relate to in our lives, each relationship weaving a web of human interconnectedness.

Furthering this powerful modality to the area of couples work, Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) has shown us a pathway to resolve relationship challenges, by ‘inner’standing that we are not just two individuals in a relationship:

You are a tribal village, and the ‘other’ is also a tribal village, and the villagers in your respective tribes are in many relationships at once. IFIO teaches couples how to relate as one wise tribal leader to another, Self to Self, speaking for and advocating for all the villagers.

This is a powerful way to avoid the relational ‘combat’ between parts competing for conflicting needs, or with different agendas.

The goal of My Village is to create more opportunities for this wisdom to reach the communities that need it most, empowering people to access their inner wisdom to support harmony in the ‘inner village’ to translate into safer and more fulfilling relating in the ‘outer village’. This is how resilient communities can thrive.

The mission is to provide resources and opportunities to practice embodying Self-Leadership in our inner village, therefore enabling strong communities to also become increasingly Self-Led – our hope is that this can resolve real world problems – this is what we mean by co-creating Community From the Inside Out!

About Us

Our vision

My Village is inspired by the clarity offered by IFS and IFIO of our inner reality, and how this relates to our relationships. Building on this, My Village is a community informed by these modalities, that is co-creating community from the inside out (CFIO). It offers a cutting edge way to view groups, from families to intentional communities, from corporations to grassroots social justice movements, and from local communities to special-interest groups. Building community from the inside out involves empowering individuals with the language and tools needed to participate in self led communities in a self led way, thereby allowing for self led communities to emerge. This project aims to make this more accessible to those who can benefit from it at a grassroots level, and also offer resources that can support the thriving of self led communities globally.

Our values

What is important to us

A self-led individual practices embodying:

Connection
Creativity
Courage
Compassion
Clarity
Confidence
Calm
Curiosity

A self-led community practices embodying:

Communion
Co-creation
Commitment
Collaboration
Communication
Capacity
Coherence
Celebration

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Inclusivity

All parts are welcome! The movement calls for more informed and affirming spaces around trauma, neurodivergence, and all kinds of diversity, so that inclusivity is a norm.

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Community

The 9th ‘C’ of self-energy is ‘Community!’ We are in this together. We cannot do it alone. Self energy holds equal care and compassion for all parts, and intends to find healing that works for the good of all parts. Likewise, Self energy holds care and compassion for all beings, and intends to be in the world in a way that acknowledges our interdependence and connectedness.

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Self-leadership

Members of My Village are committed to self leadership, which means that we practice embodying Self Leadership to the best of our ability, taking responsibility for our impact, and supporting our systems to return to Self Leadership.

Our Events

What we offer

My Village offers a directory that includes worldwide listings of IFS informed events. Listings are be searchable by location, type, time, keyword, and who it is available for. Events will all be IFS informed, yet will range from introductory events for local communities to CDP professional trainings, from one off deep-dive workshops to ongoing group IFS therapy.

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IFS trainings (for CPD and IFS informed status)

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Introductions to IFS

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IFS informed workshops

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IFS therapy groups

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IFS couples groups

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IFS practice pods

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Open-space style pods (IFS and interest based conversations)

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Curated community consultations

Events

Upcoming events

Practitioners listing events on this site are vetted as having competence in the IFS model and the ability to hold self-leadership, however, while we trust practitioners to hold brave spaces, safe spaces can never be guaranteed.

Therefore, we ask that you exercise discernment in choosing appropriate spaces for your healing, and that you take personal responsibility for how much vulnerability you bring to these spaces.

When ruptures or relational injuries occur in these spaces, there is the opportunity to request support in facilitating a repair process, which can be a growthful and healing corrective experience for both practitioners, who can learn from the feedback, and for you. (See ‘For Communities’ to access this kind of support).

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IFS (Internal Family Systems)

Resources

My Village focusses at the community level and offers an invaluable directory for groupwork opportunities. If you need 121 work or couples work you can find an IFS or IFIO therapist on the directories provided by the IFS institute and by the founder of IFIO respectively.

IFS directory: ifs-institute.com/practitioners
IFIO directory: toniherbineblank.com/therapist-directory.html

While some of the opportunities listed here are for continued professional development or introductory trainings that can qualify you as “IFS informed”, if you are looking for official IFS professional trainings that will qualify you as an IFS therapist, the Level 1-3 training track offered by the Institute are searchable here:

UK trainings: internalfamilysystemstraining.co.uk/booking/#table-courses
US and International trainings: ifs-institute.com/trainings

Meet the founder

Dr. Kripa Lovesea

Dr. Kripa Lovesea is a certified L3 IFS and IFIO trained practitioner, founder of myhealingspace.org and myvillage.group, and creator of community from the inside out.

Kripa has a thriving full time private practice offering IFS to clients, couples, and groups. Kripa identifies as neurodivergent, with a highly sensitive and gifted system.

Kripa has over 20 years experience with energy healing modalities and meditation, 15 years experience as a teacher of Philosophy, and 7 years experience as a therapeutic group facilitator. Kripa now combines these skills towards her mission to support communities to operate in a field of Self Leadership, and is passionate about cultivating safer relating and contributing to a community oriented culture.

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SUPPORT My VILLAGE

Donate

Dr. Kripa Lovesea founded My Village as a not-for-profit social enterprise to support the mission of making Internal Family Systems (IFS) tools more accessible and available to the wider community. The vision is to support IFS practitioners to share their Self-Led wisdom through facilitating healing groups, to create resilient healing communities, and make IFS-informed healing communities accessible for all, thereby upgrading the paradigm of mental health and wellness.

My Village provides a directory of IFS groups that will help facilitators to bring their work into the world with ease, and make it easy to access for all those who need such spaces for their own healing, professional development, and thriving in community.

The goal is to continue to provide this free of charge, to make it as accessible as possible to those who need it most. In order to achieve this goal, we are relying on the donations from all of you with the means, privilege or volition to support this.

If you benefit from (listing or attending events) or wish to support this vision, please consider adding this to the ‘good causes’ you charitably support and donate as generously as possible.

You can make a one off donation, or an ongoing monthly donation of any amount you choose. If you have relevant skills and would be willing to donate some of your time for events or support roles that add value to the community, email connect@myvillage.org letting us know how you’d like to support this movement.

Together, we can make the world a more Self-Led place, one inner village at a time!

Thank you in advance for all of your generous support!

With Gratitude,
My Village

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Get in touch

Feel free to reach out if you’d like to learn more, collaborate, or something else!

If you’d like to know how My Village can help you in your personal healing journey, with your community or group, or if you are a professional wishing to list your events or enquire about getting support to create your events, or wish to contribute as an Elder or get support for your community from one of our Elders, please send a message.