The Art of Transformation
Course 2
Transformation unfolds as the system allows Self to lead the healing process.
Deepening IFS Through Advanced Practice
The Art of Transformation is the second course in The Moxie School’s progression, where the foundations laid in The Art of You are deepened, refined, and brought fully into practice.
While the first course establishes the essential skills of parts awareness and Self-leadership, Course 2 invites you into the depths of the Internal Family Systems model where relationships with parts mature and the full arc of the healing process begins to unfold.
Here, you cultivate the advanced capacities required to work with greater complexity: staying present in intensity, trusting the internal system, and moving beyond technique into attuned, Self-led facilitation.
The Art of Transformation is about learning to walk the model, not just understand it, so that you can meet inner worlds with steadiness, humility, and skill.
At a Glance
Dates
September – November, 2026
Format
Online
Live Sessions
Mondays · 12:00–2:30pm ET
Practice Groups
Weekly triads with instructor oversight
Investment
$2,750 (payment plans)
Designed for
Therapists, coaches, & guides
Course Highlights
Throughout The Art of Transformation, we place special emphasis on:
Deepening the Self-to-part relationship with protectors
Offering the Hope Merchant in a paced, Self-led and embodied way
Addressing fears and concerns of protectors
Identifying and working with polarizations
Learning Direct Access (implicit and explicit) and when to use each
Mastering the full exile healing process, including:
Establishing relationship
Witnessing
Updating & Retrieval
Do-overs
Unburdening
Calling in new qualities
Updating protectors and supporting system reorganization
Supporting integration, so healed parts return to their true essence
Is This Course for You?
The Art of Transformation builds directly on foundational Internal Family Systems (IFS) skills. Many of these skills are taught, practiced, and embodied in The Art of You – Course 1, which now serves as the essential first course in our two-semester progression.
Before enrolling, we invite you to review the checklist below and notice what feels familiar, solid, and embodied.
If many of the terms or skills above are not yet distinctly familiar, we strongly recommend beginning with The Art of You.
IFS Foundations
☐ You understand the foundational tenets of IFS (parts, Self, burdens, and the system as a whole).
☐ You’re familiar with the roles of Managers and Firefighters, and how they function differently.
☐ You can recognize when multiple parts are present at the same time.
Listening & Language
☐ You can listen for parts in everyday language and reflect them back clearly.
☐ You know how to gently name parts without pathologizing.
☐ You can track when someone is speaking from a part versus about a part.
Beginning an IFS Session
☐ You can invite someone to “go inside” to begin an IFS session.
☐ You know how to support someone in finding a part when one isn’t immediately clear.
☐ You can help someone unblend from one or more parts that are present.
Working with the System
☐ You’re familiar with how to begin mapping parts.
☐ You can recognize a polarization and begin to address it.
☐ You know how to ask parts to step back to find a clearer target part.
Self-to-Part Relationship
☐ You know how to begin establishing a Self-to-part relationship.
☐ You can help someone notice how they feel toward a part, rather than being blended with it.
☐ You know how to explore the positive intention of protectors.
The Facilitator’s Inner Work
☐ You can notice when your own parts activate while holding space.
☐ You know how to begin unblending from your own parts so you can stay present with others.
Solidly Know the IFS Model?
Our advanced facilitator course may be for you
Our advanced facilitator course, The Art of Guiding, is designed to meet practitioners at a more advanced stage of incorporating IFS & Expanded States. Consider this course If you’ve:
- Completed 10+ individual IFS therapy sessions
- Taken IFS Level 1 or equivalent courses
- Have a more-than-average working understanding of the IFS model
Course Structure
Recorded Modules
Lay the foundation. Listen, reflect, return.
Live Online Teaching
Make meaning. Ask questions. Learn together.
Practice Groups
Experience IFS directly.
Recorded Modules
Weekly recorded modules introduce core Internal Family Systems (IFS) concepts and shared foundational language. Students listen at their own pace, with the ability to pause, reflect, and revisit material as needed.
Modules are released weekly and provide the conceptual framework that supports live classes and experiential practice groups.
Live Online Teaching
Weekly live online classes support deeper integration of the recorded IFS material. Instructor will review key themes, answer questions, and apply concepts to real-life experiences.
Classes include group discussion and guided experiential exercises. Most sessions include breakout rooms for small-group practice and skill application.
Practice Groups
Practice groups provide direct, experiential learning through IFS parts work. Students meet in small, closed triads supported by a professionally trained IFS therapist.
Each participant receives three personal IFS sessions and witnesses six peer sessions. Practice groups meet separately from live classes and offer a structured, relational environment for hands-on learning.
9 Course Modules
MODULE 1
Reviewing the Foundations
MODULE 2
Solidifying the 6 F’s
MODULE 3
Working with Direct Access
MODULE 4
Addressing Polarizations
MODULE 5
The Hope Merchant
MODULE 6
Working with Exiles I
MODULE 7
Working with Exiles II
MODULE 8
Working with Exiles III
MODULE 9
Markers of Change
Upon completion of The Art of Transformation, participants will be able to:
Demonstrate the ability to guide clients through the full Six F’s of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) process, from initial contact with a part through integration following healing.
Identify and assess the presence of Self-energy in themselves and in clients, and apply strategies to support increased Self-leadership within the therapeutic relationship.
Differentiate between manager and firefighter protector roles and apply appropriate IFS interventions for each within clinical sessions.
Apply the Hope Merchant intervention in a manner that supports protector trust while avoiding pressure, bypassing, or agenda-driven outcomes.
Identify and address protector fears, concerns, and objections that arise in preparation for or during deeper parts work.
Recognize polarized systems within a client’s internal system and implement interventions to support differentiation and de-escalation between polarized parts.
Demonstrate appropriate and ethical use of Direct Access, including identifying clinical indications, contraindications, and system readiness.
Facilitate unblending and relational connection between Self and parts, including when multiple parts are activated simultaneously.
Assess readiness for exile work and demonstrate skills for entering exile healing with appropriate pacing, consent, and protector collaboration.
Guide clients through witnessing, updating, do-overs, and unburdening processes in accordance with the IFS model.
Support post-healing system reorganization, including assisting protectors in updating roles following exile healing.
Apply integration strategies to support parts in maintaining unburdened states and returning to their essential qualities.
Demonstrate facilitator Self-leadership, including awareness and management of countertransference and the facilitator’s own parts during sessions.
Integrate IFS concepts and interventions into clinical or facilitation practice with increased coherence, confidence, and clinical judgment.
Course Details
Next Cohort - Fall 2026
Practice Groups
The Art of Transformation is a highly relational, experiential course that includes small, closed Practice Groups and professionally facilitated IFS sessions. Enrollment represents a meaningful commitment to your own process and to the group as a whole. For this reason, we encourage registration only when you feel clear, resourced, and able to participate fully.
In addition to the weekly class, you will participate in one weekly Practice Group, that meets at the same time throughout the course. Practice Groups for this cohort will be offered at the following times (indicate your preferences when registering):
- TBD...
Program Dates
September 14 – November 23, 2026
Live Teaching Sessions
Mondays · 12:00–2:30pm ET
Practice Groups
Weekly 1.5-hour triads, scheduled separately
Format
Online program with live teaching, recorded modules, and facilitated experiential practice
Investment
$2,750 Pay in Full
$2,889 – 3 Payments of $963
Payment plans are available for an additional 5% to support administrative costs and extended payment processing. We encourage pay-in-full when possible.
Refund Policy
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All payments are non-refundable 90 days in advance of the course start date.
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Cancellations received prior to 90 days may be eligible for a refund minus a $250 administrative fee.
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Enrollment in a Moxie School® program reserves a limited seat in a scheduled cohort. By completing registration, participants acknowledge that their payment secures a place in the program and agree to the stated refund policy. Because seats are limited and reserved in advance, refunds are not available after the refund deadline.
Failure to attend, scheduling conflicts, or changes in personal availability do not qualify for a refund after the refund deadline.
Who This Is For
Therapists, guides and journeyers wanting a lived, experiential foundation in parts work
Continuing Education Credits (CE’s)
20 CE’s available
Attendance
Because this course is experiential and relational, live attendance is strongly encouraged. Participants are expected to attend no less than 80% of Monday live classes and Practice Group sessions
Meet Your Course Instructors
Our teaching team is trained through the IFS Institute and holds a thoughtful, ethically grounded respect for the power of sacred, consciousness-expanding substances as part of the broader healing landscape.
Ashley
J. Ashley T. Booth, LCSW, MS, is an IFS therapist, researcher, trainer, and author specializing in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.
My passion is fostering people’s connection to a deeper sense of themselves, and through that, to something bigger and more awe-inspiring. I have received invaluable gifts along my journey. I am a lifelong lover of learning, exploring, and experimenting, and I bring that into the spaces where I teach, consult, and counsel.
Heather
Heather Smith, LPC, MA is the founder of The Moxie School® and a Certified (L3) IFS therapist, teacher, and facilitator of expanded states.
I have a deep passion for transformational healing and have been guided by a lifelong curiosity about what truly supports meaningful, lasting change. Throughout my work, I have sought out and integrated modalities that invite depth, integrity, and genuine inner transformation over surface-level symptom relief.
Samantha
Samantha Haylett, PhD, is an integrative psychotherapist (IFS L3) and expanded states facilitator, with Master’s-level teaching experience.
Rooted deep in the ethic of compassion, I view transformation as a sacred soul journey. I draw upon spiritual and transpersonal traditions, including Advaita philosophy and am particularly inspired by the alchemical potential of healing through symbol, myth and the transformative creativity in IFS and expanded states.
Real Experiences.
Real Transformation.
Continuing Education Credits (CE's)
20 CE’s Available
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
- CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes.
Questions?
To receive your Certificate of Attendance, contact Heather Smith, LPC at [email protected].
For more info on CEs, contact Spiritual Competency Academy at [email protected]
Frequently Asked Questions
If your answer is not found here, please contact us for a Discovery Call. We look forward to connecting with you!
Is The Art of Transformation right for me?
The Art of Transformation is designed for practitioners who already have a solid foundation in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and are ready to deepen their ability to guide the full healing process.
If you are comfortable identifying parts, supporting unblending, and beginning to establish Self-to-part relationships—and you’re ready to work with greater nuance, pacing, and complexity—this course is likely a good fit.
If you are brand new to IFS, we recommend starting with The Art of You, which provides the foundational skills this course builds upon.
What prior training or experience is required?
Participants should have completed The Art of You or have equivalent foundational IFS training. This includes familiarity with:
- Parts, Self, and the basic structure of the IFS model
- Manager and firefighter roles
- Unblending and establishing Self-to-part relationships
- Beginning protector work
This course is not an introduction to IFS, but a deepening of it.
How is this different from The Art of You?
The Art of You focuses on learning IFS from the inside, building personal awareness, foundational skills, and an embodied relationship with the model.
The Art of Transformation builds on that foundation by focusing on:
- Guiding the full Six F’s process
- Working with protector systems and polarizations
- Entering exile work with clarity and consent
- Supporting unburdening, integration, and system reorganization
- Strengthening Self-leadership while guiding others
This course emphasizes clinical and facilitation fluency, not just understanding the model.
Is this course primarily experiential or didactic?
Both, but with a strong emphasis on experiential learning.
Each module includes:
Clear teaching and conceptual framing
Live demonstrations of full IFS sessions
Experiential peer practice
Group reflection and integration
Learning happens through doing, witnessing, and reflecting, not just listening.
Will I be practicing guiding others during the course?
Yes. Participants will have opportunities to practice guiding IFS sessions in a supportive learning environment, as well as opportunities to receive guided work themselves.
Practice is structured to support:
Skill development
Ethical pacing
Self-leadership as a facilitator
You will not be asked to guide beyond your readiness.
What if I feel unsure or not “ready enough” to take this course?
It’s common to feel both drawn and unsure when approaching deeper work. Mild nervousness or humility is welcome here.
What’s important is that you:
Have a foundational understanding of IFS
Are open to learning through experience
Are willing to notice and work with your own parts as they arise
If you’re uncertain, we’re happy to help you discern whether this is the right next step.
Is this course appropriate if I plan to work with expanded states in the future?
Yes. While this course is focused on IFS itself, it provides essential skills for anyone interested in applying parts work in expanded or non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Strong capacity to guide full IFS healing sequences is a prerequisite for that work, and this course helps build exactly that foundation.
What comes after The Art of Transformation?
Practice groups meet separately from the Monday live classes.
Groups are closed and remain consistent throughout the course. Each group meets for 1.5 hours. Participants select their top three availability preferences during registration, and groups are scheduled to support continuity and relational safety.
Thank You for Exploring The Art of Transformation
Thank you for taking the time to explore The Art of Transformation.
Choosing to deepen into Internal Family Systems is not a casual decision. It reflects a commitment to doing healing work with care, humility, and respect for the complexity of the human system. This is a model that asks something of us, not just intellectually, but personally and relationally and your interest in continuing this path matters.
Whether you are standing at the edge of this course now, or simply listening for when the timing feels right, I want you to know this: we are here to support your journey when you are ready.
The Art of Transformation exists to help practitioners develop the steadiness, clarity, and trust required to guide real, lasting transformation without rushing, forcing, or bypassing the system. It’s an invitation to deepen your relationship with the model, with your clients, and with your own inner world.
Thank you for pursuing a way of working that honors the wisdom of the system and the intelligence of the healing process. Wherever you are in your learning, you are welcome here.
With appreciation,
Heather
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