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You've probably heard Self described as the cornerstone of IFS, and you may have noticed that no two people seem to explain it in quite the same way. Beneath the varied language sit deeper assumptions about what a person fundamentally is and sometimes about the nature of reality itself. Some people name those assumptions openly; others hold them without ever noticing. Is Self something you have, something you feel, or something you are? This short course takes that question seriously, not to settle it once and for all, but because wrestling with it, and feeling its tensions inside of you, matters more than memorizing a single definition. In under forty minutes of video, I'll walk you through three ways of understanding Self: as a discrete entity, as felt energy, and as a field larger even than human life. Along the way, I unpack the Eight C’s of Self-energy. They get trotted out whenever someone asks about Self, and too often nothing more gets said. I’ll show you why they matter, and how much more can be said than mentioning the 8Cs. I'll offer three downloadable exercises help you find your way with Self and give you pointers to next steps you might take as you deepen into IFS. The course is designed for therapists, coaches, and healing arts practitioners who want to understand Self in themselves and deepen their work with clients. The clearer Self becomes for you, the more naturally you'll find language that helps your clients understand it too.