Coming Back To Life: An IFS & Suicidal Parts Training

5 Sessions/90 minutes each

Over five weeks, we will go inside the suicidal part — its function, its protective logic, its relationship to grief, culture, identity, the body, and the clinician in the room. Rooted in Internal Family Systems, decolonized practice, and lived experience.

We are looking at suicidal parts in a way mainstream suicide trainings leave out. That includes the impact of intergenerational trauma, racialized trauma, colonization and capitalism, and oppression. This training is intersectional and honors the Global Majority, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

This training is paced the way this work unfolds — slowly, relationally, over time. You can bring what you learn into your clinical work between sessions and return the following week with what happened.

Who this training is for:

Social workers, psychologists, mental health professionals, students, and interns. No prior IFS experience required but it helps.

Many of us carry our own histories with suicide. Tend to yourself as we go.

The Five Weeks

Week 1 — October 26  The Foundation

Before we can work with suicidal parts, we have to understand what they are trying to do — and why they chose this.This session lays the IFS foundation. We begin with the model itself — Self, managers, firefighters, exiles, and the 8 Cs — and then move directly into what makes a suicidal part.

Week 2 — November 2  The Spectrum

Suicidal parts do not look the same across every age, every loss, or every family — and our clinical response cannot either.This session traces suicidal parts across the lifespan and across the continuum of self-harm. We look at children and adolescents, at elders, at the self-harm part that is not the same as the suicidal part — and at what happens when grief, bereavement, and family estrangement shape the suicidal landscape. The five-step clinical protocol is introduced here.

Week 3 — November 9 Embodied Suicide Response: Staying Connected to Our Soma ( Body)

This session explores what happens somatically when suicidality enters the therapy room — in the client and in the clinician. We will look at how the nervous system responds to suicidal disclosure, how clinicians can remain regulated and present

Week 4 — November 16  Culture and Identity

Who gets to have a suicidal part that is understood, believed, and held with care is never a neutral question.This session goes where most suicide trainings do not. We examine how intergenerational oppression, racial trauma, colonization, and systemic violence shape the formation and expression of suicidal parts. We look at population-specific presentations

Week 5 — November 23  Clinician Parts We will discuss the parts that show up while working with clients and our own suicidal parts — grace and room for both.The final session turns the lens fully on the clinician. We name the parts that activate in this work. We discuss clinician grief, burnout, and vicarious trauma. And we go somewhere most trainings do not: the clinician's own suicidal parts, and what it means to tend to them while continuing to show up for clients.

Case consultation and Q&A is included in the series. 

Format

This is a live, virtual training held via Zoom. Each session runs 90 minutes. Sessions are recorded and available to registered participants as a supplemental learning resource.

NBCC CE hours are available only to participants who attend the live sessions. Recordings do not qualify for continuing education credit.

Ten to fifteen minutes of each session are protected for case reflection and Q&A.

Details

Mondays, October 26 – November 23, 2026

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST

Virtual via Zoom

Your Zoom link arrives with your registration confirmation.

Continuing Education

This training offers 7 NBCC Continuing Education Hours across five sessions. Full live attendance at each session is required for CE credit. No partial credit will be provided. Participants must attend all five sessions in full. Attendance will be verified through Zoom logs and participation records.

A workshop evaluation will be emailed following the final session. Certificates of completion are emailed within 72 hours of receipt of the completed evaluation and verification of attendance.

Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #8104. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Ascension Growth Center, PLLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

This training is committed to accessibility and ADA compliance. Participants requiring accommodations are encouraged to submit requests in advance. The Provider is dedicated to ensuring an inclusive learning environment for all participants and will promptly address accommodation requests in alignment with federal, state, and local ADA guidelines.

Investment: $500

Want to go deeper after the training ends? A consultation options will be available for participants who want continued support and clinical practice beyond the five weeks. Details to follow.

Registration closes October 23, 2026.

Refund Policy

No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after October 1, 2026