Advanced Training

This training is for those who are familiar with IoPT and want to learn more about our method. If you wish to take the advanced training in Norwegian, you can read more about it here.

We warmly welcome you to an exciting and rewarding education. The focus of modern trauma treatment has shifted from "what's wrong with you" to the consequences of what happened to you. And the focus is on getting the opportunity to find the way out of the trauma biography and back to oneself. The IoPT theory is groundbreaking and the intentional method of self-encounterss, meeting oneself from the inside out, is clarifying and healing.

The goal of the IoPT advanced training is to provide a thorough insight into and understanding of IoPT trauma theory with the Intention Method. You will have the opportunity to learn how trauma affects the development and growth of both the body and the mind.

• Prevention, treatment, and finding a way out of traumatic stress, such as relational stress within and outside the family, sexual abuse, violence, and seemingly minor events that cause stress over time and lead to trauma.
• Integrated trauma, developmental, and attachment theory.
• Collective trauma. Intergenerational trauma. Developmental trauma, complex trauma, and other traumatic stress.
• The consequences of traumatic stress, prevention, and recovery.
• Trauma-informed care.

Time

The classes are organized as weekend sessions from Friday to Monday, making them easy to combine with a full-time job.

• Education and personal development in a fixed group.
• 12 modules of 4 days each.
• Rolling admission

Online training in English. Each module lasts 4 days, and the training consists of a total of 12 modules of 4 days each. Price per 4-day module: NOK 5,600. You will receive an invoice per module and pay per module. If your employer is paying for your training, we can send invoices according to your employer's preference, either annually or per module.

Dates 2027 – 2028: 7th online advanced training in English.

For questions or registration, send us an email: ewelyn@iopt.no or fill out the form on the right.

The study can be sought approved by the Norwegian Psychological Association and other professional unions as continuing education activity. Ewelyn Hysing-Olsen is professionally responsible for the Institute and teaches in modules in each advanced training, in addition experienced IoPT teachers teach.

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Theory and method

The study program is based on Prof. Franz Ruppert's theoretical and practical framework within IoPT - Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Theory with the Intention Method. The reading list will be sent out well in advance of the start. The teaching is in Norwegian.

Based on established trauma theories and his own research, as well as through many therapeutic processes with women and men in many countries, both individually and in groups, Prof. Franz Ruppert has developed the theoretical framework of Identity-Oriented Psychotrauma Theory. This framework is based on several theoretical cornerstones and one practical method: Trauma theory, the human psyche, identity, love, sexuality, victim-perpetrator dynamics and the Intention Method. Both subject and method are under constant development, and the Institute works closely with Dr. Ruppert to keep abreast of the latest developments in IoPT.

More about theory and method

The main topics for the education

The modules consist of teaching, reflection, and discussion of theory, as well as practical work based on the participants' intentions. Each participant has the opportunity for a Self-Encounter in every module, should they wish to. Ewelyn Hysing-Olsen is professionally responsible for our Advanced Training courses to become an IoPT Trauma Therapist. From module seven onwards, everyone is given the opportunity to practice the Intention Method under supervision.

• The psyche and what psychological trauma means. Definition of the core concept, the function of the psyche, the psyche as a four-generation phenomenon, the connection with the immune and hormonal systems, the brain, muscles, and organs.
• The Intention Method – and IoPT – in trauma therapy, guidance, and conversation.
• Methods, techniques, and approaches for individual treatment in groups with resonance partners, in one-on-one client-therapist settings, and through conversation. Also working on digital platforms. Some modules are online, giving everyone the opportunity to learn IoPT online.
• Early trauma. Identity, identification, and secondary identities, as well as identity trauma. Identity development, the development of the Ego, the Self, and the will. We examine trauma during pregnancy as well as trauma during and after birth. We discuss and evaluate similarities and differences based on insights and knowledge from pre-, peri-, and postnatal psychology. We explore how IoPT can act as a preventive measure during pregnancy, and how there is now an increased awareness of identity building and the mother-child attachment. The film INUTERO with Norwegian subtitles will be shown and discussed.

• Love, bonding, and trauma of love. What is love? How can we receive and give love? What is bonding? Trauma of love as part of complex trauma. Understanding and preventing "helpers' fatigue".
• Sexuality and the trauma of sexuality. What is healthy sexuality? What is unhealthy sexuality? Child and youth sexual abuse and incest, its consequences, prevention, and recovery.
• Intimate relationships and other connections. Who am I? Who am I in relation to others? Among family, friends, and colleagues? Who am I in a romantic relationship? What strengthens and what hinders healthy relationships? How can we work with relationship issues?
• Victim – perpetrator and victim-perpetrator entanglements. Definition of perpetrator and victim, being a victim and victim mentalities, being a perpetrator and perpetrator mentalities, detours/wrong tracks and ways out of perpetrator-victim splits. Also within kindergartens and schools.
• Trauma stemming from our own actions. How we end up directing harm at ourselves and others, how we traumatize ourselves in the process, and the way forward.
• Who am I in a traumatizing society? How to stay connected to a healthy Self and your own willpower in a traumatizing society.
• Symptoms or trauma: Health, illness and psychological trauma. What makes us sick and what keeps us healthy? Trauma as the underlying cause of various bodily and physical symptoms.
• Presentation of the project assignments. Completing a project assignment with clients or based on your own workplace is mandatory to earn the title of registered trauma therapist. Otherwise, it is optional.
• Books by Franz Ruppert and Gabor Maté can be ordered here, free shipping: IoPT books.

IoPT trauma advanced training is for everyone, whether you want to go for your own part or you also want to use the competence in the meeting with others, in the job you have or want to start your own practice as an IoPT Trauma Therapist. You have education and practice in IoPT trauma therapy through basic education at iopt.no, or psychotherapy, health, social and welfare subjects or prior learning.