International Advanced Training in Identity oriented Psychotraumatheory and – therapy, (IoPT), and the Intention Method.
Marta Thorsheim and her Institute for Traumawork is happy to welcome you to the 3rd Advanced International Training Program in Identity oriented Psychotraumatheory and – therapy (IdentityTherapy) with Professor Dr Franz Ruppert. This training is for Psychotraumatherapists, Psychologists, Psychoatrists. Social Workers, Medical Doctors and other health care professionals.
Objective:
The objective of the programme is that the participants shall reach a deeper understanding of Professor Ruppert`s groundbreaking theories and concepts on Identity development and how trauma does affect it. This refers to the development of our I and our will and all other psychic structures including the growth of our body. It will also be trained how to work with the split personality structures induced by trauma. The key method is called Self Encounter by the sentence or picture of intention, the Intention method.
Theoretical framework:
The program builds on professor Rupperts theoretical framework of an Indentity oriented Psychotraumtheory – IoPT.
During the past 20 years Professor Ruppert has devoted much of his work to get to a better understanding of psychological and mental disorders, as well as physical illnesses.
IoPT – Identity oriented Psychotraumatheory:
Based on established theories as well as his own research and through many therapeutic sessions with clients, both in individual and group situations, he has developed a theoretical framework which he calls Identity oriented Psychotraumatheory IoPT. This framework emanates from two theoretical building blocks and one practical method:
The concept and theory of Bonding
Traumatheory
The method of Self encounter by the sentence or picture of intention
What is the central reference point for our change process?
In the past we thought it must be the family or «the system». Today we know that only we can be our own point of reference for a substantial change. Therefore, our I must be the central focus for therapy. But what is I? How does it develop? What is blocking I development? And how does trauma affect it? What is the difference between a healthy identity and identification processes do harm to us?
Free will – fiction or reality:
The focus on our own will has been widely neglected in recent years as well.The focus has often been too rapidly directly on the trauma. But for lasting and sustainable change to happen, a deliberate decision is needed. Therefore, in working with the sentence or picture of intention thewill plays an important role. And the question arises: How does our will develop? What promotes and what prevents its evolution? How do traumatic experiences influence the formation of a free human will?
Identity and free will:
How does a healthy I and a free will interact with each other, and what happens when the survival I states together with the will to survive determine our behaviour? These basic patterns have to be examined in more detail using practical examples.
Who am I in relationships:
With whom do I want a relationship with? What is the work I really like to do? The questions regarding our identity and our own will are of central importance for our everyday life. How can we live in intimate relationships and in greater social unities, in constructive forms of love and stay healthy? What can make the development of a healthy Identity so difficult or even impossible? What impact do traumatic life experiences have on this? How do the trauma of love, early trauma and perpetrator-victim dynamics form and split our identity? And what options are available to overcome the splits in our psyche?
During the training modules we will learn what the benefits are, to have a closer look deep into the structure of our human psyche. Together we will gain new insights on how a lost healthy I can be re-established, and how we can come into emotional contact with our healthy free will to improve our own life and the life of those we are professionally dealing with.
Methodology:
The method by which we implement the insights and objectives of the identity-oriented Psychotraumatherapy, is called Self Encounter with the sentence or picture of intention. Which means the following: A person who wants to work therapeutically on him- or herself first considers his/hers intention: What do I want to achieve through this work? What is my goal? What would I like to look at more closely? What is the next steps in my therapy.
When the intention is clear, the client is asked to write it on a whiteboard or a flip-chart. He may reflect once again, while writing and if necessary, modify.
The intention is now for him and for all others visible and works as the basis for the now following self-encounter process. The person who is going to work on herself selects the first word out of the sentence of intention, which is of particular importance to her, and asks a person from the group to tune into resonance with this word. The process continues, and every word reflects an essential part of the psyche. Often uncounscious and repressed experiences from the biography can show up. This allows us, to counsciously get in touch with it. So a sustainable change process can take place in our psyche and body.
Contents:
In the modules of this program we will teach, reflect and discuss the theory and do practical work with the intentions of the participants of the training.