Parts Work Video: 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 Video, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
About 2 minutes
Try it here: list the parts active in one moment
Pick one moment that felt tense and list the separate parts of you that were active in it.
Which parts were active in that moment?
Practices that may help
- 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. - 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 - Personal Kanban, Made Practical
Personal Kanban (Jim Benson & Tonianne DeMaria Barry) adapts the industrial lean-production Kanban board for individual and small-team use. Its two rules are: visualize your work and limit work in progress (WIP). The Kanban method in manufacturing has strong evidence; the personal adaptation is a practitioner system with mechanistic grounding in cognitive load and attention research but limited formal trials in personal productivity contexts. - Draw or sketch the inner system visually
Put parts and their relationships on paper — who is close to whom, who holds whom at arm’s length.
IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical - 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. - Chunk information before asking working memory to use it
Master the parts before combining them so assembly fits within working memory.
Working Memory: How Your Brain Holds Thoughts in Play - Compare two examples side-by-side to extract the underlying principle
Place two worked examples next to each other and find exactly what is the same, structurally, beneath the surface differences.
The Worked Examples Effect: Learn Faster by Studying Solutions First - Test — let users break it
Put the prototype in front of real users and treat their confusion as data.
Design Thinking, Step by Step - Fade gradually from full examples toward independent problem-solving
Transition from full examples to partial completions to independent problems as competence grows, rather than switching abruptly.
The Worked Examples Effect: Learn Faster by Studying Solutions First
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep working on my inner critic and nothing shifts, and I’m realizing it’s because the second the critic eases off, the part that procrastinates takes over
- I can sense my parts one at a time but I can never hold the whole thing in my head at once
- I push flat-out all day with no real breaks, treating rest like something I have to earn after the work is done
- Whenever I try to do the whole complex thing at once, every part of it is fighting for room in my head and it all falls apart
- I sense two of these examples are really doing the same thing underneath, but I can’t quite put my finger on what
Related concerns
- Parts Work An Illustrated Guide
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 Demonstration
Place two worked examples next to each other and find exactly what is the same, structurally, beneath the surface differences.
Compare two examples side-by-side to extract the underlying principle
- Parts Work Diagram
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 Gestalt
If a problem object looks like one thing, try perceiving it as separate parts with separate functions.
Break apart perceptual chunks that may be blocking you
- 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 Illustrated Guide
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.
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