
Bringing Your Inner World to Life: A Six-Week Group Experience
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 · 7:00 PM PDT · Himmapan Community Cafe · Portland, OR
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Most of us carry a few familiar voices inside. One that keeps things running. One that second-guesses. One that goes quiet when it's hurt, and one that gets loud. You probably know them well, even if you've never given them names. What's less familiar is what they're actually protecting, and what happens when they're listened to instead of managed. This series is an invitation to find out, together. Much of our inner work tends to happen alone: a journal, a podcast, a pile of half-read books. We get better at describing our patterns without necessarily feeling change or improved agency. This is a chance to try something else: gently bringing that inner world forward, and seeing what shifts when it's not just you and the page. The series is especially well suited to anyone who tends to live in their head (thinking, analyzing, working things out mentally) and who's curious what it might feel like to build a bit more attunement with what's happening underneath the thinking. **How it works** Each week comes with a short reading, drawn from Internal Family Systems, that gradually builds out a map of the inner world and a deeper understanding of IFS and its process. Then we meet for two hours: an authentic relating game to help us arrive and be present with each other, a conversation about the reading and where it showed up in your week, and a practice that brings the idea off the page and into felt experience. Over the six weeks, there's room to meet some of your more difficult parts on purpose, understand what your coping habits have been trying to do for you, and see a stuck conflict met with some compassion rather than more pressure. The premise we're working with is simple: every part of you is trying to help, even the ones that cause the most trouble, and something tends to soften when they're finally understood for their intentions. We'll explore that in your lived experience. Nothing more is asked of you than showing up and a little willingness. What you…