Coaching practices for Ifs Blending Unblending
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Right now I’m not just feeling the anxiety, I am the anxiety
- I tried mixing things up and it just felt like chaos
- I do all my mixing in one giant sitting and then don’t touch it again
- In my head the things I’m sure of and the things I’m just guessing at all run together as one blur, so I end up treating my assumptions like hard limits
- The mixed practice feels slow and clumsy and I walk away convinced it isn’t working, so I’m tempted to go back to the easy way that at least feels productive
Practices that may help
- Unblend from a part to access Self
Ask an activated part to step back enough so you can be with it from Self rather than as it.
IFS Self Energy, Made Practical - Interleave related skills, not random subjects
Mix things you might confuse with each other — not unrelated subjects thrown together.
Interleaving: Mix It Up to Learn It Better - Interleaving: Mix It Up to Learn It Better
Interleaving means deliberately mixing different topics or problem types in one study session instead of doing them in separate, single-topic blocks. It usually feels harder and slower in the moment, but controlled studies repeatedly find it improves long-term retention and the ability to pick the right approach for a new problem. - Combine interleaving with spacing
Spread interleaved sessions across days so mixing and forgetting both do their work.
Interleaving: Mix It Up to Learn It Better - Separate facts from assumptions explicitly
Sort what you actually know from what you’re assuming, in two visible columns.
First-Principles Thinking, Made Usable - IFS Unburdening, Made Practical
Unburdening is the healing step in Internal Family Systems (Richard Schwartz) in which a wounded part releases the extreme beliefs and emotions it has been carrying — usually after it has been fully witnessed and understood by the Self. The process is widely used in IFS clinical practice, and preliminary evidence is encouraging, but controlled trials are still limited. For significant trauma, unburdening is best done with a trained IFS clinician. - Trust the harder-feeling session
Expect interleaving to feel worse in the moment — and judge it by later recall, not present ease.
Interleaving: Mix It Up to Learn It Better - Combine
Ask: what two things — purposes, materials, functions, or ideas — could be merged to create something new?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Assign broad themes to days of the week
Dedicate each weekday to a broad category of work (deep creation, meetings, admin) to reduce context-switching.
Ideal Week Design - Combine and build on others’ ideas
Treat every idea as a building block — the best ideas in a session are usually hybrids.
Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Unblending Ifs
Ask an activated part to step back enough so you can be with it from Self rather than as it.
Unblend from a part to access Self
- Interleaving And Spacing
Interleaving means deliberately mixing different topics or problem types in one study session instead of doing them in separate, single-topic blocks. It usually feels harder and slower in the moment, but controlled studies repeatedly find it improves long-term retention and the ability to pick the right approach for a new problem.
- Interleaving Feels Harder
Expect interleaving to feel worse in the moment — and judge it by later recall, not present ease.
Trust the harder-feeling session
- Interleaving Learning Benefit
Interleaving means deliberately mixing different topics or problem types in one study session instead of doing them in separate, single-topic blocks. It usually feels harder and slower in the moment, but controlled studies repeatedly find it improves long-term retention and the ability to pick the right approach for a new problem.
- Interleaving Mix It Up To Learn It Better At Work
Interleaving means deliberately mixing different topics or problem types in one study session instead of doing them in separate, single-topic blocks. It usually feels harder and slower in the moment, but controlled studies repeatedly find it improves long-term retention and the ability to pick the right approach for a new problem.
- Interleaving Mix It Up To Learn It Better Before Bed
Interleaving means deliberately mixing different topics or problem types in one study session instead of doing them in separate, single-topic blocks. It usually feels harder and slower in the moment, but controlled studies repeatedly find it improves long-term retention and the ability to pick the right approach for a new problem.
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