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Save the Date - 2025
Feb 15, March 15 & April 19
May 17 – 18
May 24, 31 & June 7, 14.
Online – Saturday April 19
9 AM – 1 PM Pacific Time
Porosity of Mind
Through Center for Deep Self Design
In this multi-sensory workshop, we’re invited to embrace a reality common in many non-Western cultures: that our minds are not singular or separate but instead are multiple and porous. This ‘porosity view’ of the mind shatters the outdated and erroneous ‘citadel view’ of the mind as being separate and disconnected—a view that fosters isolation and alienation, unnecessarily contributing to modern mental illness and intractable social challenges.
Porosity of mind reveals a deeper truth—that we are profoundly interconnected and intricately shaped by the relationships and environments we inhabit. By embracing porosity, not only do we gain access to resilience and a deeper sense of wellness. We also unlock a state of openness, inspiration, and transcendent creativity that allows insights, imagination, and archetypal wisdom to flow freely. Reclaiming this natural state of our mind demolishes the idea of a lone creative genius, waiting for the Muse.
Online – 4 Saturdays
8.30 – 12 PM Pacific Time
May 24 & 31 – June 7 & 14, 2025
Trauma, Spirituality & IFS
Through IFSCA
I’ve been wanting to present this work for many years. I’m very excited that I finally feel ready to do it.
Without connection to some spiritual realities, our ability to heal will be limited. Unless our work is based on strong and ongoing psychotherapeutic recovery, spirituality can be ungrounded and even damaging. These two worlds need each other and they have great gifts for each other.
It has taken me a lifetime of study and practice to come to the place where I believe I have things of value to say about how this marriage can occur.
Online – Saturday March 15
9 AM – 1 PM Pacific Time
The Birth of Purpose
Through Center for Deep Self Design
Much can perish in the absence of meaning, so a commitment to seek and sustain meaning is a radical, even defiant, act. When suffused with meaning and purpose, not only do we become less easy to manipulate and control, we also become courageous and clear about what we stand for. A life suffused with meaning, therefore, is not a frill. It is central to our wholeness and well-being.
This second workshop in our trilogy weaves didactics with guided meditations and breakout experiences to connect you to the direct source of insight and inspiration that gives birth to meaning. We’ll summon your intrinsic power to navigate that ongoing road toward a more meaningful, purposeful life.
“I have known Bob about 10 years and during that time I don’t know of anyone else who has been to more of my workshops as a participant or assistant or has done more work on him or herself. As a result, he knows IFS intimately and deeply and is a strong teacher.
“Also, the book we co-wrote, Many Minds, One Self, wouldn’t exist without his dedication to exploring everything related to IFS.”
Richard Schwartz PhD – Creator of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy
4-part Workshop – 14 hours of Recordings
The Others Within Us
Unattached Burdens & Guides in IFS Therapy
Through LifeArchitect.com
This recorded 4-part series explores the farther reaches of IFS:
- Unattached burdens
- Guides (These are all Beings who are not Self and not parts.)
The workshop will introduce you to the spiritual implications of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model.
These subjects do not fit in the modern materialist paradigm, and attempts to deal with them are often met with mockery and derision. But they are real, they do occur and they cause human suffering and human joy.
We start with radical pragmatism. How do we best deal with these phenomena when they occur in clients or in ourselves? What works? What helps? These are our most basic concerns. We then place these phenomena in historical and cross-cultural perspectives, and we examine some possible theoretical understandings.
My book about this (released April 2, 2023) The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession, is available on Amazon and good booksellers.
11+ Hours of Recordings – 3 full Workshops
Through LifeArchitect.com
IFS & Psychedelics
A recording of the series of 3 IFS online workshops. By purchasing this series, you get access to the Life Architect platform, which will provide you with links to video recordings of the workshops and other training materials, viewable on desktop or mobile devices.
IFS therapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy are a great fit. It’s because of that Internal Family Systems is one of the main modalities used in MDMA trials done by MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies).
In this recorded workshop series, IFS Teacher, Robert Falconer – co-author of “The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession: – takes you on a journey, during which you will learn how to use IFS to support altered states of consciousness.
Bob and his guests – leaders in the field of psychedelic therapy – teach you about the application of IFS therapy during three stages of work with psychedelics – preparation, experience, and integration.
Guest Teachers: Richard Schwartz, Michael Mithoefer & Dr. Robert Grant.
Almost 12 hours of recordings, in 3 separate workshops, available now.
“Bob Falconer is in eminently talented IFS therapist and teacher. I have had the good fortune of co-assisting IFS retreats conducted by Richard Schwartz at the Esalen Institute with him for the past several years.
He brings a wealth of knowledge to his teaching and his mastery is most evident in his deep and nuanced understanding of the clinical applications of IFS to the complex areas of trauma and spirituality. Indeed, my appreciation of IFS is it expanded with every experience with Bob.
“On a personal level, he is an exceptionally real, kind, and humorous individual. Both his teaching and sharing our compelling and moving.”
Barney Jordan, PhD. IFS therapist. Counselor at the University of the Pacific. Previously served on the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School; taught mindfulness meditation at MIT. Practicing at the interface of spirituality and psychotherapy for more than 30 years.
“Bob has a lot of experience teaching about the combination of IFS and psychedelic medicine so I really can encourage people to explore all this with him.”