IFS and Embodying IFS with Black Clients with Fatimah Finney

Episode: 145

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On today’s episode I chat with Fatimah Finney who wrote a chapter in the Altogether Us book entitled, “Embodying IFS with Black Clients.”

Listening to this epsiode this week could not be more timely as the last thing we talk about is Collective Healing. Fatimah says, “My liberation is your liberation.. what is happening across the globe impacts us.”

Fatimah is a licensed mental health counselor, skilled DEI consultant and workshop facilitator. She enjoys existing as a Black Muslim Woman and apparently loves buying books she doesn’t get to read. Her toddlers are her tormentors and daily doses of Self energy! 
 
We talk about:
– Speak about race, it is already in the room
– Recognizing dominance and power positions in txp
– Importance of working with therapist’s parts (always!) but NOT in session with your black client
– Connection and Compassion can exist when there is not ‘sameness’, when there is a limit to my ‘getting it’
– Giving clients the floor to tell their own story
– Importance of intentional community
– Black Joy
– Intercultural competence: how can we engage in differences in a connecting way
– “Being with the beauty and the wonder of the person who is in front of me.”
– Knowing where your line of knowledge ends and begins
– Leadership development- What is the point of your power? How do you get and recieve feedback?
– Collective healing
 
It is a really beautiful episode. 
 
To find out more about Fatimah go to Meet Fatimah — Fatimah Finney (healingdifferently.com)

I’m grateful for Jack Reardon who created new music. Jack is a graduate of Derek Scott’s IFS Stepping Stones Program. You can follow Jack on Instagram at bonzemusic.

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