Self-Led Practitioner Intensive
A 14-hour live intensive in the deep end of IFS — for a group you bring together yourself.
You gather 3–6 people who are serious about this work. I bring the training to your group: 14 hours of advanced IFS education, live demonstration, and hands-on practice — split across two to four days, shaped around exactly who's in the room.
Request a Fit CallThe deep end, taught live
Most IFS education stops where the material gets hard. The introductory layer — parts language, protectors, unblending — is everywhere now. What's much harder to find is a live container that goes further: exiles, the trauma-adjacent territory, polarizations that don't resolve cleanly, what to do when a system says no.
The Self-Led Practitioner Intensive is 14 hours of live, experiential education in exactly that territory — as I understand it, practice it, and have taught it since completing the IFS Institute's Level 1 training in 2014. Not a webinar, not a recording. Teaching, open Q&A, live demonstration, and practice with feedback, customized to your group before we ever meet.
Every participant receives Becoming Self-Led — the full written manual I built for this intensive — and completes a pre-training questionnaire so our days together are built around your group's actual experience level and edges, not a generic script.
You bring the people. I host.
The Intensive runs on a simple model: you assemble your own cohort of 3–6 — colleagues from your practice, your consultation group, fellow coaches, friends who are as dedicated to this work as you are. I take care of everything else.
There's a reason for this beyond logistics. Deep practice requires trust, and trust is already present in a group that chose each other. When the person practicing across from you is someone you'll still be talking to next month, the work goes further — and what you build together in those hours keeps compounding after I'm gone.
One person requests the fit call. If we're a fit, your group picks the schedule — 14 hours split across two, three, or four days, whatever fits your lives — everyone completes the questionnaire, and I design our time around what comes back.
What the 14 hours hold
- Exiles, carefully — how burdens form, how protectors organize around them, and how to approach the most protected parts of a system without going faster than the slowest part.
- The trauma-adjacent edge — what this work can honestly hold, where its boundary sits, and how a non-clinical practitioner works ethically near that line, including when and how to refer.
- Protectors and polarizations at depth — beyond identifying parts, into the standoffs that actually run people's lives.
- Live demonstration — real work, in the room, not role-play theory. You watch the model move, then practice it with each other, with feedback.
- Your questions, at length — open Q&A woven through both days. Bring your hardest cases and your stuck places.
An honest boundary, stated up front: this is education, not therapy, and not clinical training. I'm a coach and educator, not a licensed therapist. The Intensive will deepen your practice of the model; it does not qualify anyone to treat mental illness.
Who this is for
- Therapists and counselors who want IFS depth now rather than after a lottery and a years-long wait.
- Coaches past the basics — if you've completed the Self-Led Coaching Academy or equivalent, this is the next step down.
- Group practices and clinics that want their whole team trained together, in the same room, on the same material. (The first Intensive cohort was exactly this — a group practice that trained together.)
- Any group of dedicated practitioners — I don't gate by license. I gate by fit call, because seriousness matters more to me than letters.
And who it isn't for: if you're new to IFS, start earlier on the path — the Self-Led IFS Program for your own work, or the Self-Led Coaching Academy to learn to use IFS with clients. The Intensive assumes the foundations and spends its hours past them.
Who's leading this
I'm Conor McMillen — an IFS-trained life coach. I completed the IFS Institute's Level 1 training in 2014, and I've practiced IFS daily since: over a decade as a coach and teacher, a YouTube channel that's introduced IFS to millions of viewers, and the creator of the Complete Self-Led IFS Program and the Self-Led Coaching Academy. The Intensive is where I teach the deepest material I know, live.
"IFS transformed my life, and I want to witness it enrich yours — and the lives of those you serve — in the most profoundly positive way. When we guide others toward Self-leadership, we create a beautiful ripple of impact in their world and beyond."
— Conor
Format and investment
- 14 instructional hours, live online — split across two, three, or four days, whatever fits your group's schedule (two full Saturdays is a common shape; so are four half-days). Your group sets the dates.
- Cohort size: 3–6, assembled by you.
- Included: the Becoming Self-Led manual for every participant, pre-training questionnaires, and a curriculum customized to your group.
- Certification: complete the Intensive and you're certified as a Certified Self-Led Practitioner — our own credential, with an official letter and a badge for your site.
- Investment: $3,800 per cohort — not per person. Your group splits it however you like; at five people, that's $760 each for 14 hours of live, customized education. Full payment confirms your dates.
Common questions
Is this IFS Institute training or certification?
Do we receive a certificate or credential?
What if I don't have a group?
How experienced does my group need to be?
Is what we share in the room confidential?
Why is there a fit call at all?
The Self-Led Practitioner Intensive is an educational program of Internal Family Systems, LLC. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by the IFS Institute. "IFS" and "Internal Family Systems" refer to the therapeutic model developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. Conor McMillen is a coach and educator, not a licensed therapist; this program is education, not therapy or clinical training. The Certified Self-Led Practitioner credential is granted by Internal Family Systems, LLC and is not equivalent to any IFS Institute designation.
