Exploring Countertransference Through the Fire Drill Technique — with Joanne Twombly

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Joanne Twombly discussing the Fire Drill technique in IFS and the publication of IFS Collected Wisdom.

In today’s episode,   we speak with Joanne Twombly about a powerful IFS technique commonly known as " The Fire Drill, based on Joanne's chapter called T he Fire Drill: Sorting Through Countertransference with IFS ." And we also announce the recent publication of   IFS Collected Wisdom : Conversations with Experienced Voices in Internal Family Systems. We are deeply grateful to all those who contributed to this project, and endorsed this volume, including Richard Schwartz , Susan   McConnell , Cece   Sykes ,   Joanne  Twombly ,   Einat   Bronstein , Bob   Falconer , and many others.  We hope the book will be a companion on your IFS journey. Here is a link to the IFS Collected Wisdom contents .  

People in this episode

Hosts: Aníbal Henriques, Tisha Shull, Alexia Rothman

Guest: Joanne Twombly

Topics covered

• countertransference
• IFS technique
• The Fire Drill
• mental health
• internal family systems
• publication announcement

Keywords

• countertransference
• IFS
• Fire Drill technique
• mental health
• Joanne Twombly
• publication
• internal family systems

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: IFS Collected Wisdom, The Fire Drill

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