Intro to IFS: The Compassionate Shift — with Ty Cutner
Intro to IFS · The Compassionate Shift

You're not broken. A part of you just needs to be heard.

A free, two-hour live virtual workshop. New tools. A real shift — the kind you feel in the room.

2 hrsLive & virtual
FreeLimited seats
40+ yrsOf IFS research
A word from Ty
The shift

From "I'm broken" to "a part of me feels this."

In IFS, the anxious one, the worried one, the part that plows through — none of them are the whole of you. There's a calm, clear center underneath. Two hours is enough to feel the space open up.

SelfCalm · Clear
the anxious one
the worried one
the one who plows through
the protector
the frozen part
What you'll learn

Leave with tools you can actually use

Not theory about your mind — a working relationship with it.

01

See your emotions as parts — so you stop being consumed by them and start relating to them instead.

02

Notice when you're blended with a part — so you can create distance and stop being driven by feelings you can't explain.

03

Understand why trauma stays stuck long after the event — and what actually moves it, so time isn't your only hope.

04

Access your Self — the compassion and clarity already inside you — so you lead from it instead of reacting from old wounds.

05

Apply IFS to your relationships — so you stop reacting and start seeing what's really happening between you and the people you love.

Live exercise

Ty guides you through a part-mapping exercise, so you leave with direct experience of your own system — not just knowledge about it.

What we'll do together

Two hours, start to finish

01

The story

Ty opens with his own — 20 years of stuck grief, and the single IFS session that resolved what years of therapy couldn't.

02

The framework

Parts, Self, and blending — the three building blocks of IFS — in plain language, no jargon.

03

The shift

From "I'm broken" to "a part of me feels this." The reframe that changes how you see yourself.

04

Live Q&A

You share what you're struggling with. Ty responds with IFS — live, on real situations.

05

The experience

A guided part-mapping exercise. You work with your own system — not a hypothetical.

06

What's next

An honest invitation to go deeper — only if it's right for you.

What we'll do together in the IFS workshop

A live, guided experience — not a slideshow.

What makes this different

What we left out on purpose

Pathologizing

IFS doesn't label you broken or disordered. Every part of you — even the difficult ones — is trying to help. We start there.

Passive learning

You won't watch slides. By the time it ends, you'll have already worked with your own system, in real time.

Clinical gatekeeping

IFS has 40+ years of research behind it. Ty's job is to get it out of the therapy room and into your hands.

Filler

Two hours: a personal story, clear teaching, live Q&A, and a guided exercise. That's it.

Ty Cutner, IFS Coach and Author
Not a therapist. That's the point.
Your host

Ty Cutner

Ty's life started with trauma and grief. His father was killed before he was born, and his mother passed when he was 15 — a loss that left a part of him frozen in 1996.

Years of traditional therapy didn't touch it. Then in 2021, in a single session with IFS founder Dr. Dick Schwartz, it resolved. That convinced him to get trained — through the IFS Institute's inaugural Fellowship — not to practice as a therapist, but to translate IFS for everyday people.

  • Coached over 4,000 men through divorce, separation, and trauma recovery using IFS
  • Invited to speak at the IFS Conference in 2022 — within six months of certification — and again in 2023
  • Contributing author to the bestselling Freeing Self: IFS Beyond the Therapy Room
  • One of very few Black men prominent in the IFS community
What others are saying

In their words

I don't know how I would've gotten through this if it wasn't for Ty and how he taught me to look at myself using IFS.

— Client navigating a health crisis

Now I can recognize who's scared, who's worried, who has the anxiety — and I can turn to those parts instead of just trying to blast through.

— Workshop participant

It wasn't until I saw myself from this perspective that I could even understand why I have these behaviors.

— Client, ongoing coaching

If it wasn't for these tools, I wouldn't have been able to have a cordial relationship with my wife.

— Client going through divorce

I've been able to teach some of these tools to my spouse, which helped her have a better relationship with our boys than before.

— Client & father

I've been in IFS therapy for years and never heard anybody break it down the way you do. It's more practical.

— Long-term IFS therapy client
Apply for your spot

This one's on the house — but seats are limited.

We keep each cohort small and personally review every application, so the room stays supportive and everyone's committed to showing up for the work.

~65%of applicants
are accepted

Every application is read by hand. Not selected? You'll still get a complimentary resource as our thanks.

A safe, curated space. Your details are only used to send your workshop invitation and next steps.

Start your application

Takes about 30 seconds. We'll open the short second step right after.

Step 1 of 2 · A few more questions come next so Ty can tailor the session to you.

Ty Cutner.

IFS Coach & Author · Intro to IFS: The Compassionate Shift

© Ty Cutner. Internal Family Systems for everyday people.

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