The IFB model provides a compassionate, respectful, non-pathologizing approach to understanding the organizational functioning. IFB embraces and celebrates the natural multiplicity of the model. The IFB assumption is that every part of the system has good intention and valuable resources coupled with a powerful and effective “set of tools” for empowering a wide range of…

I am on a landscaping crew working on a steep hill, clearing brush with a machete. I am a shirtless peasant. It seems like Venezuela or Puerto Rico, somewhere with jungle, but desiccated. Everyone else on the crew is blissful and childlike, beaming, wielding modern power tools with ease. I am sweating. When I look up the hill there are horses, then behind these ordinary horses there are gigantic work horses that tower over the palm trees. One is pulling a whole grove of trees down with the sled-like contraption. I am frozen admiring its strength. All of a sudden a woman on the work crew shrieks out, “Señora Rose! Señora Rose!” to some boss who is never revealed. She says, “The horse is choking on a whole ear of corn,” and I look over to see one of the smaller horses vomiting up yellow kernels. “A whole ear!” Señora Rose must have told the woman to just let it run its course because no one intervened. Then, abruptly, it dawns on me that I am a vampire hiding from an older vampire who is trying to kill me. I am caught. I am terrified.

Through instruction, video demonstration, and experiential exercises, Dr. Avram Bloch, a certified IFB specialist, shows you step-by-step how to apply the most effective, empirically validated IFB interventions to help you connect and understand your patient’s needs.