Advanced Training

IoPT trauma advanced training 2027-2029 at Frogner in Oslo in Norwegian. Some collections online.

Can also be taken online in English, same program, see the box to the right for your choice, physical in Oslo or online in English. Dates in Oslo at the bottom of this page and dates for online can be found in the website menu under digital here.

We warmly welcome you to an exciting and rewarding training program. Modern trauma treatment has shifted its focus from "what is wrong with you" to the effects of what happened to you from conception through life, including complex PTSD. The focus is on finding a way out of your trauma history and back to yourself. IoPT theory is groundbreaking, and the intention method with self-confrontation—meeting yourself from the inside out—is clarifying and healing.

Trauma work is something that concerns us all.

The goal of the IoPT Advanced training is to provide thorough insight into and understanding of IoPT trauma theory using the Intention Method. You will have the opportunity to learn how trauma affects the development and growth of both body and 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.
• Early trauma, complex trauma, and other stressful life events.
• The consequences of traumatic stress, prevention, and recovery.
• Trauma-informed care.

The teaching is organized as weekend sessions Friday - Monday physically and Monday - Thursday online in the evening, and can be combined with a full-time job.

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

The study is 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 together with Marta Thorsheim in several modules in the advanced trainings, in addition experienced IoPT teachers teach. The number of teachers in each module will also be adapted to the class size.

• IoPT supervisors and teachers from the Institute
• Read testimonials from former students

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 according to the participants' intentions. Each participant is given the opportunity for their own therapy through being a resonance person and their own self-encounters, when they have the intention to do so. Own self-encounters can be expected in most modules. Marta Thorsheim is responsible for our Advanced Training for Trauma Therapist IoPT. From module seven onwards, everyone has 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.
• What is trauma? From stress to trauma.
• IoPT terminology definitions.
• 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. The phenomenon of resonance in therapeutic and other IoPT practices.
• Also working on a digital platform. Some of the modules are online, giving everyone the opportunity to learn IoPT on an online platform.
• 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.

Advanced Training IoPT 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:
Suitable for those who have education and practice in IoPT trauma therapy through Basic Training Basic Training at iopt.no, or psychotherapy, health, social and welfare subjects or prior learning.

Location for Advanced training: In Oslo, with some modules online: 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 5,980. You receive an invoice per module and pay per module. If your employer is paying for the training for you, we can send invoices as your employer prefers, either annually or per module.

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

Presentation of project assignments, distribution of participation certificates/diplomas, and a closing party.

Times for each module:

Physical collections:

Day 1: 11:00–18:00
Days 2 and 3: 10:00–18:00
Day 4: 10:00–17:00

Online collections:

Evening 1-4: 3:00 PM-10:00 PM

Price: You will receive an invoice per module of NOK 5,980, which also covers articles sent by email/distributed during sessions, guidance regarding writing assignments, and more.

Location: Schafteløkken 1, Frogner, Oslo.

Bus/tram to Frogner plass.

By car; street parking in the area (end of free parking)

Some modules are online via Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent to all participants the day before.

Changes may occur.