Coaching with IFS-1

Using Internal Family Systems to Co-Create Healing and Awakening

Coaching with IFS-1 is a live training for coaches, therapists, spiritual directors, dietitians, and other healing practitioners. This is a both a personal development workshop and a comprehensive professional training for those who want to work deeply with clients committed to lasting transformation.

We create a safe and intimate community where you can heal past wounds and awaken to your true identity—giving you greater access to the magic of presence. From here, the IFS protocol becomes an even more powerful tool, fostering deeper client work.

We integrate spirituality and our connection to each other and the divine to amplify our access to the field of wisdom in which we all live and move.

Adding IFS to your practice will provide you with an elegant and effective tool to work deeply with your clients.

The training comprises eight monthly two-day sessions led by IHA co-founders Guthrie Sayen and Barti Bourgault.

We limit our classes to 36 students.

What will I learn?

  • The basic principles of IFS and a clear 18-step protocol for deep healing

  • Access your own enlightened core, which is whole, wise, loving, and good (Self)

  • Collaborate with clients to safely enter their internal world with curiosity and compassion

  • Meet the many sub-personalities (parts) that live within all of us

  • Understand the parts’ complex relationships (systems theory)

  • Befriend challenging parts who try to keep us safe (protectors)

  • Find and heal young vulnerable parts (exiles)

  • Move skillfully between two different methods of engaging the inner realm (direct access and in-sight)

  • Harmonize parts who are in conflict with each other (polarizations)

  • Understand and help parts that affect physical health

  • Work with your own parts that block access to Self

  • Stabilize in a compassionate, non-judgmental, and agenda-less presence

Format

Our two-day sessions (Thu, Fri) will take place March - October 2026 (dates below). All classes are live on Zoom.

Each day:

  • We meet from 10:30 am – 5:00 pm Eastern Time (New York).

  • We take two 15-minute breaks and one 60-minute meal break.

Class days include presencing practices, teaching, demonstrations, debriefs, Q&A, peer practice, and mentoring.

Our goal is to provide a learning environment that is structured, open, inclusive, and energizing. Our community is connected, compassionate, and playful

Your commitment

Attend at least 12, and preferably all 16 class days. Exceptions are given with instructor pre-approval.

For classes missed, watch the class recordings.

Keep pace with the assigned reading in the class manual.

Meet with your practice partner(s) at least three times between classes.

What will I get?

  • An understanding of a model that assumes you and all humans are intrinsically endowed with everything needed to heal, grow, and love

  • Proficiency in using an 18-step process for finding, witnessing, and unburdening the wounded parts of the psyche 

  • Competency and confidence to work one-on-one with clients in healing relationship

  • Greater access to your own wisdom, divinity, and sense of wellbeing 

  • Intimacy with your own internal world of parts

  • A community of lightworkers

  • Witness (and participate as a client) in live demonstrations of the full protocol

  • Group mentoring, peer practice, class recordings, and a comprehensive course manual to support your journey

  • A certificate of completion indicating you’ve earned 40 ICF-approved CCEs (approval pending)

Is this for me?

This program is for coaches, therapists, spiritual directors, dietitians, and other healing practitioners who want to integrate IFS into their healing work. This training integrates spirituality and our connection to each other, the natural world, and the divine.

You may be:

  • A practitioner who seeks an IFS training that includes unburdening exiles 

  • Longing for an intimate community for learning and evolving

Prerequisite:

We ask that you have training as a coach, therapist, dietitian, or other practitioner with experience working one-on-one in a healing relationship. If you have doubts whether this training is for you, email the trainers.

Support for your journey

Eight live two-day sessions

Learn live with Guthrie Sayen and Barti Bourgault. Experience meditations, clear teaching, demos, and Q&A.

CIFS manual

Receive a comprehensive manual to help you integrate your learning.

Class recordings

All live sessions are recorded and can be watched afterward for up to 1 year.

14 hours of group mentoring

Mentors provide feedback on your skills according to the IFS protocol.

Certificate of completion plus 40 ICF CCEs (approval pending)

  • “IFS transformed my life, then Coaching with IFS gave me the skills and confidence to do the same for others. I looked forward to each weekend, with its mix of masterful demos, step-by-step guidelines, group practice and community Q&A. I now can't unsee everyone's parts and the power of this methodology, and will be forever grateful to Guthrie, Barti, and the supporting team of experienced coaches who brought this to life."

    — Derek Haswell

  • Guthrie creates and holds a beautiful space that allowed me to be vulnerable and open for healing and learning in a safe environment. His grounding presence and peaceful energy enabled me to access a deeper place within myself that now I am able to go back to in my daily life and also share the same openness and grounding presence with others on a personal and professional level.

    — Fernanda Suarez

  • “The approach to parts work that I learned from Guthrie and Barti is absolutely foundational to my own well-being and my ability to more fully show up to my life, my parenting and my calling in the world. It's helped me access more heart-courage and embodied confidence, as I know that I have an abundance of ways back to center -- back to my core Self and to my inner knowings. My gratitude for my time with them continues to unfold, as the gifts of the work continue to be revealed. “

    — Nicole Feola

  • "Guthrie’s approach is unique in that he doesn’t just master coaching techniques and skills, but uses them as a tool to deepen the connection with oneself, which becomes a powerful agent for healing and personal growth."

    — Dmitry Dumik

  • “Through Coaching with Spirit and Coaching with IFS I have learned from demonstrations of the highest order from Guthrie and Barti. Guthrie with his creativity and Barti with her structure, the duo bring in different perspectives to the coaching process. To me this has been an incredible journey into what is deep compassionate presence.”

    — Rashish Sahasranama

  • “By bringing curiousity and compassion to my internal family, new relationships could arise and a greater, gentler force was able to energize my being. I learned to anchor my deepest self in something beyond fear and survival; a healing force that resonates closer to love.”

    — Meditation Teacher and Coach, Kim Ruggiero, MA

Class dates/times

All classes are on Thursdays and Fridays running from 10:30 am – 5:00 pm Eastern Time (New York) on Zoom

Session 1: Mar 12 - 13, 2026

Session 2: Apr 9 - 10, 2026

Session 3: May 14 - 15, 2026

Session 4: Jun 11 - 12, 2026

Session 5: Jul 9 - 10, 2026

Session 6: Aug 13 - 14, 2026

Session 7: Sep 3 - 4, 2026

Session 8: Oct 8 - 9, 2026

Limited to 36 students.
Enroll early to secure your spot.

Coaching with IFS-1

Single payment

$4,950

Early Bird Discount $500

(through December 31, 2025)

$4,450

Coaching with IFS-1

Payment plan

$5,200

Early Bird Discount $500

(through December 31, 2025)

$4,700

$1,200 due upon enrollment. Five $700 payments Jan-May 2026.