BASIC TRAINING OVERVIEW

The IFIO Basic Training is a 72-hour experiential clinical training for IFS Level 1 graduates who want to bring the depth of IFS into their work with intimate partnerships. Grounded in the IFS model and informed by systems thinking and neuroscience, this training was built for the complexity of relational work.

IFIO was born from a simple but powerful idea: that intimate relationships aren't just a context for healing — they're a vehicle for it. Rather than treating each partner separately, IFIO invites therapists to work with the relational system itself, helping couples move from conflict and disconnection toward genuine repair and growth.

Therapists leave this training with embodied, practical tools they can use immediately — skills for facilitating compassionate dialogue, navigating rupture, and supporting lasting resilience in the couples they serve.

The IFIO Basic Training is offered in two tracks to meet therapists and practitioners where they are:

• Standard Basic Training: for practicing intimate partner therapists and practitioners who are ready to deepen and expand their couples/relational work using the IFIO model.

• NCT Basic Traning: for therapists and practitioners who are not yet a couple therapist or practitioner, new to couple therapy or who have little to no formal experience working with couples. .

Both these tracks offer the same curriculum. NCT however offers a deeper emphasis on the foundational aspects of a couple/intimate partner therapy.

Prerequisites for all (2) Basic Training Tracks

• Completion of IFS Level 1 through IFS-I or approved affiliate organization.
• At least 6 month of integration time between completion of IFS Level 1 and the start of IFIO Basic Training/IFS Level 2