Use activities around inner parts, attention and perspective to help students understand their responses, choices and attempts to change.
Meet the “inner parts”, revisit where attention goes and examine a desired change alongside the needs being protected.
For advisory, reflection and social-emotional learning. These activities do not provide psychological diagnoses.
Courses can connect more than one area. These descriptions come from the existing course collection.
IFS translated into a cast of inner characters a teenager can use. No test, no diagnosis, no lecture about screen time. It does something more basic: it rewrites “I am anxious” into “a part of me is anxious” — and that one rewrite moves you from the stage back into the audience.
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Built on Kegan's subject-object shift and immunity to change, but deliberately without stage rankings, self-tests or verdicts on a person. It helps a student see one thing only: whether the change she says she wants and the thing she is actually protecting are the same.
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Students review how they reached a judgment, checking premises, missing reasoning steps and perspectives they have not considered.
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