Parts Work Richard: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Parts Work Richard, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
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Try it here: name the parts you notice most
Name the inner parts you notice most, and what each one is trying to do for you, before you try to change any of them.
Which inner parts do you notice most?
Practices that may help
- Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method reframes planning around three questions: What do I want (Result), Why do I want it (Purpose), and What’s the most efficient path (Massive Action Plan). The "why before how" sequence is consistent with motivational research on purpose and implementation intentions. RPM is a practitioner framework rather than a formally studied protocol. - Cultivate awareness as your primary creative tool
Pay unusually close attention to what you notice, what you feel, and what catches you — these are the raw material.
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical
Parts mapping is an Internal Family Systems (Richard Schwartz) practice of systematically identifying and visually or narratively charting the distinct inner parts — critics, worriers, peacekeepers, wounded exiles — and their relationships to each other. It is a diagnostic and orientation tool: it shows you the terrain of your inner system before you try to work with any single part. Evidence sits within the broader IFS and parts-work literature, which is growing but not yet on par with CBT or DBT. - Do the unsexy work no one else sees
Consistent private effort on unglamorous fundamentals separates actual performance from performance of performance.
The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice - Oscillate between effort and recovery
Pulse hard work with real recovery instead of grinding in a flat line.
The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical - Internal Family Systems (IFS), Made Practical
IFS, developed by Richard Schwartz, treats the mind as made of distinct "parts" — protectors and wounded exiles — orbiting a calm core "Self." The work is to lead from Self, understand each part’s protective intent, and help carried burdens release. The model is widely used and increasingly studied, but its controlled-evidence base is still emerging compared with CBT or DBT. - Audit work hours against your stated priorities
Compare how you actually spend your time this week against what you say matters most.
The Regret of the Dying - Carve out self-directed time
Reserve protected time to pursue work you choose, the way innovative teams do.
Drive: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose - Name frustrations without shame
Frustrations are not weaknesses — they’re a mismatch signal that the team can act on.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Track the relationships between parts
Notice how parts trigger, protect, and sometimes war with each other — the system’s dynamics are as important as its members.
IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My days blur past on autopilot and when I finally sit down to make something the well is dry
- I notice I only really put in the effort when someone’s watching or there’s credit in it, and the boring fundamentals slide
- I push flat-out all day with no real breaks, treating rest like something I have to earn after the work is done
- I keep telling myself family comes first, but when I actually look at where my hours went this week it’s almost all work
- The work I actually choose for myself
Related concerns
- Parts Work Richard Schwartz
Schwartz and Loehr’s "spiritual" energy is simply the motivational fuel of purpose — work feels effortful without it and effortless with it.
Connect daily tasks to purpose to sustain spiritual energy
- Parts Work Podcast
A bundle loses its pull when the want becomes associated with work rather than pleasure — rotate before that happens.
Rotate bundles before they stop working
- Parts Work
Parts mapping is an Internal Family Systems (Richard Schwartz) practice of systematically identifying and visually or narratively charting the distinct inner parts — critics, worriers, peacekeepers, wounded exiles — and their relationships to each other. It is a diagnostic and orientation tool: it shows you the terrain of your inner system before you try to work with any single part. Evidence sits within the broader IFS and parts-work literature, which is growing but not yet on par with CBT or DBT.
- Parts Work Family Systems
IFS, developed by Richard Schwartz, treats the mind as made of distinct "parts" — protectors and wounded exiles — orbiting a calm core "Self." The work is to lead from Self, understand each part’s protective intent, and help carried burdens release. The model is widely used and increasingly studied, but its controlled-evidence base is still emerging compared with CBT or DBT.
- Parts Work How To
Parts mapping is an Internal Family Systems (Richard Schwartz) practice of systematically identifying and visually or narratively charting the distinct inner parts — critics, worriers, peacekeepers, wounded exiles — and their relationships to each other. It is a diagnostic and orientation tool: it shows you the terrain of your inner system before you try to work with any single part. Evidence sits within the broader IFS and parts-work literature, which is growing but not yet on par with CBT or DBT.
- Parts Work Schwartz
IFS, developed by Richard Schwartz, treats the mind as made of distinct "parts" — protectors and wounded exiles — orbiting a calm core "Self." The work is to lead from Self, understand each part’s protective intent, and help carried burdens release. The model is widely used and increasingly studied, but its controlled-evidence base is still emerging compared with CBT or DBT.
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