Warm welcome in the online IoPT Café. This initiative is started to offer a place where we can meet each other and where we can learn something more about IoPT or IoPT-related topics. It is a place where we can share thoughts, where we can be curious and learn something more about healing from trauma and eventually learn something more about ourselves. It is also a place where you can bring your friends with you who are also interested in IoPT and in healing from trauma.

It is my deepest wish to offer a place where you can engage just as much or as little as feels right for you and where you have an opportunity to connect and get inspired.

In the next online IoPT Café meeting Vivian Broughton will give a presentation on the topic of ‘Being an IoPT Practitioner: Absorbed or Attacked – The Child of the Narcissitically Traumatised Mother’.

This meeting is scheduled on Wednesday, November 27th, 2024, from 3 pm CET/Amsterdam time to 5 pm CEST. The zoom room opens at 2.45 pm CET. Warm welcome to join this meeting if you want to.

Presentation by Vivian Broughton

To sign up for the event, please send an email to Nanneke at info@ioptcafe.com Once you have signed up you will be kept updated about the future online IoPT Café meetings. You will find more meeting dates here.

Feel free to invite your friends and to let others know about these events.

Warm welcome.

In this online IoPT Café meeting we have celebrated the first anniversary of the online IoPT Café!

Franz Ruppert, the founder of IoPT gave a presentation. In his presentation Franz shared how IoPT has deceloped over the past decades, he shared how he came to understand more and more about the impact of trauma on our human psyche and how we can heal from the traumatic experiences. The presentation is recorded. If you want to watch Franz’s presentation feel free to send an email to info@ioptcafe.com to ask for the link to the recording.

Olaf Thaler has sung a heartwarming IoPT mantra in English, German, Portuguese and Russian language. This is also on the recording with Franz’ presentation.

Presentation by Franz Ruppert

Presentation by Anja Jaskolski with the topic: ‘IopT and Reiki’

Anja Jaskolski practices IoPT along with Jikiden Reiki Therapy to provide a cause-oriented and natural approach to healing. She finds joy and purpose in working with parents in particular to bring harmony to families and prevent the unconscious passing down of trauma to their children. She is a Berlin transplant now living in a rural forested valley in Western Canada, surrounded by mountains and wildlife.

In her presentation ‘IoPT and Reiki’ Anja invites us to her observations around the energy aspect of IoPT and shares her experience of how Reiki is a potent support for trauma healing.

Presentation by Jenny Hansen about “Breastfeeding as an expression of Love”

Jenny Hansen is an IoPT practitioner and -trainer. During her own training and a search for a ‘right’ method of parenting, she discovered that healthy parent-child relationships cannot be created through any parenting concept, but are a natural consequence  of knowing who we truly are and the establishment of a healthy, loving connection with ourselves.

 She will give a presentation on the topic of ‘Breastfeeding as an expression of Love’.

In this presentation Jenny shared her thoughts and findings as an IoPT practitioner surrounding the topic of breastfeeding in relation to the trauma trias as defined by IoPT theory. The presentation was an opportunity to discuss how the trauma biography can play out in mother-child bonding, and by shaping our identity, in virtually all subsequent relationships in life.

What’s love got to do with it? By placing the focus on this early relationship in self-encounters, we can learn a great deal about who we are and our innate capacity to love and be loved. And with a growing readiness for self-compassion we may possibly begin to discover what it is we have been looking for all along…

Presentation by Rens Meijkamp about ‘Wheel of Transformation, by healing trauma’.

Rens Meijkamp (1967) originally holds a PhD in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology. After a career as a consultant and as a manager at large municipal organizations, he has developed through life experience, study and training courses in ‘people work’.

Rens: “Based on my theoretical insights and personal work with hundreds of clients, I have developed a PROCESS MODEL for healing trauma. I want to introduce that process model because it can provide insight and guidance into the process of healing and integration of trauma. I call the process model the “WHEEL-OF-TRANSFORMATION”.”

Presentation by Cherionna Menzam-Sills

Cherionna is a prenatal and birth therapist, movement therapist and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist. Drawing on 45 years experience, her background includes an M.A. in Somatic Psychology (Dance/Movement Therapy) and a Ph.D. in Pre- and Perinatal Psychology. Originally from Canada, Cherionna lives in Devon, UK, with Franklyn. As well as teaching and facilitating small womb surround process workshops online, she has a private practice currently focused on supervision and mentoring, often online. Cherionna is committed in her work & life to embodied presence.

Cherionna gave a presentation on the topic of Pre- and Perinatal Development. It is Cherionna’s passion to share and bring more awareness about Prenatal and Birth Experience and thier Lifelong Influences on our lifes. With her presentations, the training modalities she offers and with her books, she invites and encourages us all to embody who we truly are. Understanding more about pre- and perinatal development can support you in becoming more conscious about your own experiences.

Presentation by Irene Stendnes

Irene Standnes is an advocate for a Trauma-informed Society. Irene is an IoPT teacher at the Institute for Traumawork in Norway, she has also a private practice as Supervisor and Traumatherapist IoPT, in addition to a former member of the Professional-Ethical Board of the Association for Traumatherapists IoPT.

She is also a lawyer with former positions as Chief Municipal Executive, Official and Political Adviser. She offered a presentation at the IoPT Conference in Olso in 2023 with the topic: Domestic Violence – why and how do trauma-victims turn into trauma-perpetrators?

Presentation by Katrina Mikiah

Katrina Mikiah is an IoPT Practitioner based in Missoula, Montana. She studied last year at the Institute for Trauma Work in Norway and embarked on an IoPT focused study of the traumatizing effects of religion. She started her own study exploring this topic and wrote an article. Katrina has been “specifically interested in exploring what happens when children are born into religious systems with a negative view of human nature, strict dogma, and a black and white understanding of right and wrong with harsh and unceasing consequences for “wrong” behavior. It is logical that those who are part of religious communities, unless they are there under force, likely feel that religion has a positive influence on their lives. In her article she explores how religion can also have a negative impact on the formation of a healthy identity and, in that sense, be traumatizing.”

Presentation by Margriet Wentink

Margriet Wentink started in 1996 ‘Interakt’ in Tiel and she introduced Franz Ruppert around 2005 into the Netherlands. Interakt is a guidance and training centre devoted to personal development, recovering from trauma, and education. In the 25 years of experience, Interakt has specialised in a trauma treatment method based on Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy (IoPT), which has been developed by Dr. Franz Ruppert over the past 30 years. Margriet translated Franz’s books into the Dutch language and she wrote a chapter in Franz’ book “Fruhes Trauma”. Margriet gave a presentation about the topic of Sexual Trauma with a focus on Healthy Sexuality and Intimicy.

Presentation by May Sunita

IoPT Midwife May Sunita has experienced that women are particularly vulnerable when facing their own pregnancy and childbirth. She works preventively to strengthen the mother-child bond in pregnant women, those giving birth, and those who have given birth. May Sunita: “I am passionately dedicated to empowering and supporting mothers on a deeper level. My focus is on strengthening the mother-child attachment, which is crucial from conception and during the time in the mother’s womb. That’s where it all begins. We have all been in a mother’s womb.”