📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 | 🕐 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time | 💻 Live on Zoom
Validation as an Advanced IFS Practice Masterclass
A live Masterclass for IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants | $40 per seat
Validation Masterclass for IFS Therapists | Open to IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants.
A live Masterclass on Zoom for IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants ready to move beyond the basics. Using the nine-step practice of validation as a map, we'll explore the subtle, well-meaning parts that surface when we're trying to help, and what becomes possible when we let an experience simply make sense.
Live teaching, demonstrations, case consultation, and Q&A, happening once and not recorded, so attendance is the only way in.
📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026
🕐 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
💻 Live on Zoom
💵 $40, including a discount toward Validation: Your Communication Superpower, with The Practice & Process of Validation Guide included free
Validation in IFS
Validation is the practice of communicating with someone so they feel seen, heard, accepted, valued, and loved — not intellectually, but in the body. It sounds simple, and in IFS it's anything but. The moments that most need validation — a client's profound grief, an exile's shame, anger that feels righteous — are the same moments that activate our own parts: the one that wants to fix, the one reaching for reassurance, the clinician part that already knows where this is going. When those parts are blended, we can't meet the client from Self, however skilled our technique.
This Masterclass teaches validation as an advanced IFS practice — a concrete, nine-step process for noticing and unblending from your own parts in the moment, so you can offer the kind of understanding that lets a client's system feel safe enough for Self to emerge. You already have the foundational skills. This is about applying them where they're hardest to hold.
Validation Masterclass for IFS Therapists | Open to IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants.
A live Masterclass on Zoom for IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants ready to move beyond the basics. Using the nine-step practice of validation as a map, we'll explore the subtle, well-meaning parts that surface when we're trying to help, and what becomes possible when we let an experience simply make sense.
Live teaching, demonstrations, case consultation, and Q&A, happening once and not recorded, so attendance is the only way in.
📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026
🕐 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
💻 Live on Zoom
💵 $40, including a discount toward Validation: Your Communication Superpower, with The Practice & Process of Validation Guide included free
The Framework We'll Work From
We'll learn the framework and apply it live: to real clinical moments for therapists, and to the charged dynamics of the training room for Program Assistants, who are often holding participants, colleagues, and trainers alongside their own parts, all at once.
At the center of the Masterclass is Dr. Barre’s nine-step practice of validation, the framework at the heart of her work, taught here specifically for IFS practitioners and Program Assistants. If you work in IFS, you'll recognize its arc: the first movement is unblending from your own protectors and concerned parts, and the second is meeting another person from Self. Validation, done well, is Self-led presence made practical — and the nine-step practice is how you get there in real time, in the moments that are hardest to stay in.
Masterclass details
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Saturday, September 26, 2026
🕐 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
💻 Live on Zoom
💵 $40
Attendees receive a discount toward Validation: Your Communication Superpower, Robin's self-paced course, which comes with The Practice & Process of Validation: A Comprehensive Guide included free.
Open to IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants.
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This is a live, experiential Masterclass on Zoom, including:
Teaching
Live demonstrations
Case consultation
Q&A
Space to explore the nuanced application of validation in clinical and training settings
This Masterclass happens once, live, on the date below, and it is not recorded, so attendance is the only way in.
Validation Masterclass for IFS Therapists | Open to IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants.
A live Masterclass on Zoom for IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants ready to move beyond the basics. Using the nine-step practice of validation as a map, we'll explore the subtle, well-meaning parts that surface when we're trying to help, and what becomes possible when we let an experience simply make sense.
Live teaching, demonstrations, case consultation, and Q&A, happening once and not recorded, so attendance is the only way in.
📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026
🕐 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
💻 Live on Zoom
💵 $40, including a discount toward Validation: Your Communication Superpower, with The Practice & Process of Validation Guide included free
What We'll Explore Together
A clear, repeatable practice for staying in Self when a client's grief, shame, or anger activates your own parts
How validation can open systems organized around shame, where Self hasn't been welcome
The skill of catching the subtle, Self-seeming therapist parts — the fixer, the reassurer, the one who already knows — before they steer a session
Live demonstration and case consultation applying the framework to real clinical and training moments
Practice validating your own parts so you have more room to meet your client's
FAQs
Validation Masterclass for IFS Therapists | Open to IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants.
A live Masterclass on Zoom for IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants ready to move beyond the basics. Using the nine-step practice of validation as a map, we'll explore the subtle, well-meaning parts that surface when we're trying to help, and what becomes possible when we let an experience simply make sense.
Live teaching, demonstrations, case consultation, and Q&A, happening once and not recorded, so attendance is the only way in.
📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026
🕐 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
💻 Live on Zoom
💵 $40, including a discount toward Validation: Your Communication Superpower, with The Practice & Process of Validation Guide included free
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IFS Institute Level 1 trained therapists, practitioners, and Program Assistants who already have a foundation in the model and want to bring their skills into more nuanced, emotionally complex territory.
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No. This Masterclass happens live on Zoom only once, and attendance is the only way to be part of it.
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You'll receive a confirmation email right after registering with your Zoom link and an add-to-calendar link, plus reminder emails the day before and an hour before the Masterclass starts.
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Your $40 registration gets you into the live Masterclass, and it also gets you a discount toward Validation: Your Communication Superpower, Robin's self-paced course, which includes The Practice & Process of Validation: A Comprehensive Guide at no extra cost.
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No. Level 1 IFS training is the only prerequisite, since this Masterclass skips re-teaching parts work and goes straight into the practice of validation.
Meet your instructor
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Meet your instructor ✳
About Dr. Robin Barre
Dr. Robin Barre has spent more than 30 years working closely with adolescents and their families. Her work spans classrooms, clinical settings, and private practice—giving her a deep, practical understanding of how teenage development affects not just teens, but entire family systems.
She is a Level 3 trained and certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist and an approved consultant with the IFS Institute. Dr. Barre is trained in high-conflict family dynamics, estrangement, and parental alienation. She worked in the public school system as a school-based mental health counselor, working with families and community services. Her academic background includes advanced training in counseling and depth psychology, culminating in a Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute.