HEALING DOESN’T MEAN THE HARM NEVER HAPPENED.

IT MEANS THAT IT NO LONGER CONTROLS YOUR LIFE.

Identity Oriented Psychotrauma Theory

IoPT

Developed by Prof Dr. Franz Rupert.

Have you ever wondered who you are, or what you really want in life? These are good questions!

IoPT is an experiential process where you explore these questions to bring about change and freedom. This work enables you to gain access to the repressed emotions and hidden parts in your unconscious mind, so you know yourself and what you really want in life.

Everyone may benefit from this work including the people who feel emotionally healthy. If you are human, you are guaranteed to be complex and, therefore, to gain some clarity from doing an IoPT process.

Why do we have hidden parts in our psyche, you wonder? We unconsciously suppress emotions that are overwhelming. Trauma causes our psyche to fragment in order to survive an unbearable experience. The process of splitting is the ultimate self defence to survive an impossible situation where we are utterly powerless.

Often trauma is passed on from mother to child in what the fields of neuroscience and epi-genetics identify as trans-generational trauma. It is common for trauma to be passed on from one generation to the next simply because "As the mother’s psyche is split, so her heart is split also." (Vivian Broughton).

In order to keep the pain of the trauma isolated and to function in daily life, we create surviving parts with coping strategies. Survival strategies may include processing emotions from the head, being constantly angry or depressed, being controlling, having addictions and many other adaptations.

These coping mechanisms are not sustainable over time. We simply lack the energy to keep them going. With our strategies eroding, the strain of the trauma negatively affects our life.

IoPT work allows you to reconnect with the spilt-off parts, so you may integrate them back into your healthy self and become whole again.

THE INTENTION METHOD OF IOPT

We begin by you forming an intention of what you would like as a goal. Examples are:

• I want to know myself

• I want to love

• I want to stop being anxious

• I want to have a good job

• Etc. Etc.

Your intention guides the process and ensures a safe exploration.

We use words from your intention to serve as portals to parts in your psyche. The meaning of the words is not necessarily literal, but can be. We work with one word at the time in a process called resonance.

Resonance means that you make contact with your inner part and express its experience. Anyone can do it becuause the ability to resonate is part of our biology. You may resonate for yourself, or you may ask me to do it as well. In group work (see below), three individuals are chosen and each resonates with one word from your intention.

Through the resonance process, unconscious parts of your biography show up thus allowing you to bring suppressed experiences to your awareness. When you also make emotional contact with the those parts, healing takes place.

‘Opening the closed doors, behind which our traumatised parts are locked up, makes us whole again.”
Prof Dr. Franz Ruppert

Credits:

Franz Ruppert PhD

Vivian Broughton

Interested in IoPT group work?

FACILITATED BY MARIA GREEN UK

Click on the link below:

AMERICAS / UK / EUR IOPT GROUP WORK

Click on the Americas / UK / EUR Groups link (PAY £25 in Payment in body of text)

BOOKS OF INTEREST:

• I WANT TO LIVE, LOVE & BE LOVED / Prof. Franz Rupert

• THE MYTH OF NORMAL: TRAUMA, ILLNES & HEALING IN A TOXIC CULTURE / Gabor Mate MD with Daniel Mate.

• TRUAMA AND IDENTITY :identity oriented psychotrauma therapy theory and practice / Vivian Broughton

• EARLY TRAUMA: Pregnancy, Birth and First Years of Life / Prof. Franz Rupert

I invite you…