(HS Ferentz 096652 2026) Creative Approaches to Parts Work: Increasing Insight & Self-Compassion Through Mapping & Journaling

Course overview

Parts work offers an intuitive way of understanding our complexity and developing self-compassion. Although many clinicians incorporate it into their work, they may be missing the opportunity to do it using creative processes that can effectively and experientially lead to greater internal safety, insight, inner peace, and self-compassion. In this workshop, you'll learn how to help clients access dominant and non-dominant parts that "show up" to provide them with strength, abilities, and protection. And you'll have opportunities to experience mapping and voicing parts. You'll discover: A four-step process designed to help clients increase collaboration between different parts, even when they have competing or polarized agendas How to help clients give voice to their parts using contextual, situational, and interpersonal cues How to use an art modality in sessions for "mapping" and understanding parts How to use journal prompts and two-handed writing to strengthen communication and understanding between parts