This Saturday, March 8, join a global celebration of DID Awareness Day

This Saturday, March 8, The Plural Association is hosting their annual virtual celebration of Dissociative Identity Disorder Awareness Day, starting at 3pm ET / 8pm UTC. It starts at 3pm ET / 8pm UTC, and tickets are pay-what-you-can from $10 up.

You don’t need a DID or OSDD diagnosis to participate, or even to work with clients who do: any and all clinicians, coaches, and plural systems are enthusiastically welcome.

After a keynote presentation by a plural peer support specialist focusing on human rights, housing, and outreach, we’ll exchange clinical knowledge and personal experience in breakout rooms.

I attended last year’s event, which was a truly joyful celebration of inner multiplicity in all its forms, and of immense practical benefit to me, my parts, and my work as a partswork practitioner. I wrote about last year’s event — give this a read if you’re not sure it’s right for you.

The next global Parts Work Unconference is Saturday, April 5 — get your free ticket

Alex and Pau from the IFS Collective are throwing another virtual party for partswork enthusiasts worldwide, and you are invited. It starts at 10am Eastern / 2pm UTC. Though donations are appreciated, tickets to the Unconference are completely free.

This is the ninth Unconference that Pau and Alex have organized for our global community, which should tell you something about how thoroughly excellent it is. My system and I are hoping you will join us there.

How to come to the Unconference

• Here’s an FAQ about the Parts Work Unconference from Pau and Alex.
• Anyone can propose an Unconference session during the event itself, but you’re welcome to submit your session ideas in advance. You can also attend without proposing a session, and most folks do.

Every Unconference is absolutely free to attend, but donations are gratefully accepted — please do chip in if you can!

Call for contributions

This email newsletter began out of an informal global working group, which has now done its work and come to a close. But we can still use it to share our expertise, build community, and expand the horizons of partswork far beyond the limitations of the IFS Institute. We have almost 100 subscribers from all over the world, and new folks sign up after every newsletter. So:

If you have ideas to share about IFS or any other form of partswork, consider publishing them in The Partsworker. I’m especially interested in work that explores these ideas:

• Partswork modalities other than IFS
• First-person narratives about your own system
• Tips and advice for practitioners
• Intersections between partswork and other theoretical frameworks
• Experiments in partswork beyond the therapy room
• Community-based partswork in action
• Partswork-based reflections on culture, politics, and society anywhere in the world

Pitch me an idea or send me a story draft any time.

That’s all for this fourth edition of The Partsworker, colleagues. Please forward this email anyone who might be interested, or post this link to your social networks to share. Like the first buds of spring, we too survive the cold and dark. 🌷