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# Using Internal Family Systems in nonprofit work — or, DEI from the inside out
- URL: https://www.chudgar.com/ifs-for-nonprofits/
- Published: 2023-11-16T22:04:39.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-03T16:05:27.000Z
- Description: The Internal Family Systems model can bring deeper understanding, more compassionate communication, and greater harmony to bigger human systems — like nonprofits and the communities they serve. This workshop uses IFS to explore diversity, equity, and inclusion “from the inside out.”
- Author: Ash Chudgar
- Tags: Consulting, Partswork, Coaching, Healing, Nonprofits, Workshops

### This week I got to talk with a bunch of extremely excellent people about two of the things I love most: [nonprofit communications](https://www.chudgar.com/tag/nonprofits/) and the Internal Family Systems model. 

I’d been anticipating this conversation for months — but it was only a couple weeks ago that I learned my friends at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits were promoting [my IFS workshop](https://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/events/event-detail/2023/11/14/default-calendar/a-model-for-healing-internal-family-systems-and-your-nonprofit?ref=chudgar.com) as part of their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion series. At first I was perplexed, because I don’t think of myself myself as somebody with any expertise in those areas. For me, the lived experience of being *personally* “diverse” — neurodivergent, biracial, queer, and so forth — has led me away from the DEI framework rather than closer to it.

The more I considered the idea, though, the more I realized the healing insights the IFS model has to offer — the internal communication skills I use with my clients and within myself — can help nonprofit folks think about diversity, equity, and inclusion in liberating new ways. 

## “So thought-provoking” 

Here’s what some folks had to say afterward: 

> Ash was awesome, and I could listen to him talk all day. I loved his genuine enthusiasm; curiosity and excitement about how we interacted with the content; and warm, welcoming personality!

> Thank you to the presenter for their vulnerability in this session as well — it was very engaging and made the experience feel intimate and meaningful.

> The session was so thought-provoking — I appreciate having some space to think about “problems in a system” in a very different way. And defining the practice of inclusion in a different way. I am grateful for that. 

Here are the slides — see what you think!