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Foundations Experiential Groups (FEG)
Advanced Groups
August 2026 to January 2027
Thank you for your interest in joining a Foundations Experiential Group (FEG) or one of our advanced Formation for Formators (FFF) groups.
Our FEGs are designed for Catholic therapists, spiritual directors, coaches, or others who are professionally responsible for the formation of others. FEGs will meet for 10 sessions that will generally be held every other week with practice triads meeting during the off-weeks. (You can see how practice triads work by watching Episode 151 of the Interior Integration for Catholics podcast, where Dr. Peter is in the accompanier role, working with two individuals who are in the accompanied and the observer roles.)
We are also offering advanced groups, described below, designed for those who have already completed an FEG through Souls and Hearts, Stepping Stones, or IFS Institute Level 1 training. Advanced groups do not have practice triads.
Love One Another Advanced Group
What does it mean to be truly known and loved in a community where we can bring all of our parts and learn to speak for them, rather than through them? Through increased awareness and in the moment interactions, members will learn to be aware of their activated parts and speak for those parts. Led by David Edwards, members will experience caring for and understanding others. You will experience who you are in all of your parts including the ones often hidden by shame or blocking protectors. You will develop a deeper experience of intimacy and learn how to make a loving, dynamic relationship work. By experiencing deeper awareness and acceptance, members will be able to deal with difficult feelings including anger, shame, and conflict. The community will develop a strong sense of support, honesty, and compassion in the group. There is no outside reading.
Relating Wholeheartedly with God in Prayer Advanced Group
In this advanced group, we seek a deeper union with God that includes all of our parts. Fr. Thomas Acklin and Fr. Boniface Hicks in their excellent 2020 book Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father’s Love develop the theme that prayer is relational. When you pray, you bring yourself toward God, with not only your spiritual hang-ups and difficulties, but with all the insecure attachments and all the difficulties each of your parts has with safety, trust, vulnerability, shame, fear, anger, and so many other obstacles and hindrances.
Dr. Peter brings the amazing insights of this book into another dimension by expanding into the realm of parts and systems thinking. Why? To help us receive the Father's love not just as a unity, but in each of our parts in our multiplicity. How? Through overcoming our parts’ difficulties in their human formation. This advanced group will be limited to 12 participants.
Fee Details
Each group will meet for 10 sessions at a cost of $70 per session or $700 total, plus a subscription of $40 per month to join the FFF community is required.
After you complete the registration form below, you will receive an email with a payment link to make a non-refundable $200 deposit. This deposit is required to guarantee a spot in either an FEG or Advanced Group and will be credited against your group fee in the spring.
Please note that all FEG and advanced group fees are non-refundable. We must be able to compensate our IFS-trained leaders, and we cannot add new participants once we begin a group.
Also note that the FFF is a formators' community offering resources, connection, and professional consultation and is independent of the groups themselves. If you no longer wish to participate in the community after your FEG or advanced group concludes, you must cancel the FFF subscription separately.
Any questions should be directed to Pam Malinoski at office@soulsandhearts.com.