Feminist IFS

Tools for Self-led Personal and Cultural Transformation

Led by Quin Rich, LICSW & Achara Tarfa · 8 live bi-weekly sessions

The personal is political — and your parts know it.

If you’re tired of trying to “calm down” your fierce, protective parts while the world is actively on fire, this course is your invitation to take the next step.

Over 8 live sessions, we expand the IFS lens to include the political and the systemic: how our parts carry patriarchal and cultural burdens, and how Self-leadership becomes a tool for both personal liberation and collective transformation. This is a home for practitioners who understand that in a world of injustice, our Self must be as brave as it is calm.

Curriculum

What you will learn.

01 See the Whole System

Understand the Cultural Protective System: how social structures generate cultural burdens and systemically block Self-leadership, individually and collectively.

02 Work with Cultural Burdens

Explore the inner worlds of privilege and oppression, and help parts carrying patriarchal burdens unburden with compassion.

03 Reclaim Self-led Anger

Meet anger not as a part to silence, but as a valuable Self-led force for challenging injustice.

04 Sustain the Work

Practices for maintaining Self-leadership and feminist commitments in a patriarchal culture, without burning out.

Watch a Skills Nibble

Get a taste of the work before you commitm a short, real clip from inside the course.

Faculty

Meet your teachers.

Quin Rich, LICSW

Quin is a passionate advocate for survivors of gender-based violence. Rooted in her own survivorship history, she has extensive experience working with survivors of intimate partner violence, sex trafficking, and sexual assault.

Certified IFS Therapist
Masters in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University
Published multiple related articles in Parts & Self
Unburdened Heart Counseling & Consultation Private Practice

Achara Tarfa

Achara Tarfa is a Certified Trauma Care Practitioner, Supervisor, and Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner with over three decades of experience uplifting diverse populations across educational, faith-based, and civic organizations. Her career is defined by a radical commitment to culturally sensitive healing and systemic change.

Co-Founder of Global Trauma Institute
Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner
IFS Level 3: Self-Like Parts with Pamela Krause
Somatic IFS Step 2: with Susan McConnell
IFS Level 1 & Legacy Burdens: with Ann Sinko

Schedule

8 bi-weekly sessions

Practices for maintaining Self-leadership and feminist commitments in a patriarchal culture, without burning out.

Dates pending final confirmation. Session times & timezones to be added.

Investment

$1,400

one-time fee

or a payment plan: 4 × $400/month ($1,600 total)

Schedule

The 8 sessions.

Introduction to Feminist IFS, core concepts

The Cultural Protective System, how social systems reinforce burdened protectors and block Self-leadership

The Mindset of Privilege, the inner world of privileged social locations

The Burdens of Oppression, the inner world of marginalized social locations

Self-Led Anger and Resistance, reclaiming parts patriarchy calls “too much”

Self-led Social Transformation, Self-led movements and guiding principles

Self-led Feminism in a Patriarchal World — keeping your values alive in oppressive systems

Who This Is For

Ready to stop healing in a vacuum.

Practitioners, therapists, coaches, healers, and change-makers. We keep this cohort small and intimate

for deep, supportive group connection — seats are limited.

The journey begins July 23.
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picture?

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