SoulPages® Art Journaling and IFS: Working with the Stages of Grief

Dates:
📆 Saturday August 29, 2026

Time: 9:00am–4:00pm Pacific Time
Location: Online

Available CEs: 6
Facilitator: Theresa Soltzberg, MA, LMFT, SoulPages® Facilitator
Cost: $219.00

Registration Deadline: Wednesday prior to training.

Participants will apply SoulPages® art journaling methods as well as IFS parts work methodology learned from Parts 1 and 2 workshops and apply both to the stages of grief which include denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance as first introduced by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler.

Participants will learn to approach engagements using IFS and SoulPages® art journaling, utilize resources to learn more, and continue learning about both processes and this combined approach.

In this workshop, participants will complete a basic art journaling spread from start to finish, using guided visualization to connect with an internal part and recognize it as separate from self. Participants will get to experience the elements of IFS parts work and the layering processes and techniques to then be able to pass along to clients.

The Internal Family Systems Approach involves connecting with the participant’s own system and a thought, feeling or sensation that they connect with as a part. Participants will un-blend from, and distinguish these parts as separate from Self and self qualities, such as compassion, curiosity and connection to increase their ability to relate to and integrate these internal parts in a positive and holistic way.

The application of grief work and the five stages naturally integrate parts work with parts showing up in the stages of grief such as anger, bargaining and depression. These parts protect us through crises, such as loss. Expressive arts is a powerful means for healing and self expression as well engaging right brain in complex trauma work.

Participants will be able to express their experience through exploration using a variety of materials including collage, paints, writing, line, ephemera, layering, movement, sound and other intermodal techniques. Each step will be guided with room for self-expression. No previous art experience is necessary.

The SoulPages® approach does not require art experience and is accessible to anyone, including those with no art experience. It involves collage, simple mark making and painting techniques, and includes writing and movement. We will be incorporating simple IFS work which can be built upon.

No prior experience is necessary.

Learning objectives

1. Participants will review complex trauma and the neuroscience of how IFS (top down) and EXA (bottom up) heal.
2. Participants will review the IFS System, its components, and how the system works including protectors, exiles, and the Self.
3. Participants will learn about and understand the layers and materials of the SoulPages® approach.
4. Participants will learn about the stages of grief and supporting clients experiencing loss through expressive arts healing.
5. Participants will complete a SoulPages® art journaling spread focused on the stages of grief and incorporating IFS parts work.
6. Participants will learn and understand how SoulPages® and IFS work can support clients experiencing grief.

Required Materials

• Art Journal with watercolor paper (you can also use a sheet of loose watercolor paper or thick mixed media paper.)
  • If you’re using paint that takes water, watercolor paper is the best. If you’re using a journal vs loose paper try to avoid ones with a spiral so you can continue creating across two pages when it’s open.
• Watercolor paint for your background (acrylic paint, watercolor pencils, colored pencils, crayons markers or any other colored medium works also!)
• Collage images from books, old magazines or printed from online.
• Markers, posca pens (acrylic markers), pens
• Glue (glue stick, craft glue Elmers all are fine)
• Brushes
• Scissors
• Paper towels

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Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Cancellation & Refund Policy

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Earning Continuing Education Credits

To receive a CE Certificate for completion of this workshop, you must officially register, attend the workshop in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop. The evaluation form is emailed to you by the following Friday of the workshop. After completing & submitting the evaluation form, a CE Certificate will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days.

Who is eligible to receive CEs?

• Nationally: Approved NBCC Provider for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Social Workers (you are responsible for confirming that your organization/state will accept NBCC credits.)
• New York Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs)
• California LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs
• Washington State School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”
• If you are outside of Washington State, we advise that you check with your state licensing board to confirm that they accept NBCC Approved CEs. 

Northwest Creative and Expressive Arts Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0123.

Theresa Soltzberg is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs and maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Continuing Education Provider #146650: Workshop meets the qualifications for 7 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7104. Programs that do no qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.