Meeting dates

All online IoPT Café meetings are scheduled from 3 to 5 pm CET (Amsterdam/Munich time)

2026:

Tuesday, June 30th, 2026

Presentation by Lilit Abrahamyan, “Shame, Guilt, and the Body: An IoPT Perspective

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026

Presentation by Silke Zeich, “IoPT and Compassionate Inquiry (CI) – a perfect match”

Tuesday, October 27th, 2026

Information will follow

Meeting dates in 2026:

Previous presentations in the online IoPT Café:

2023

  • Franz Ruppert opened the First Online IoPT Café meeting with a presentation about Psychotrauma on October 24th, 2023
  • Vivian Broughton gave a presentation “One Person at a Time”, about the role of trauma awareness into the future of humanity on November 21st, 2023
  • Ewelyn Hysing-Olsen gave a presentation called “Early trauma and how it can affects our couple relationship with our trauma response and the way out into a healthy couple relationship. It’s al there from the start.” on December 13th, 2023

2024

  • May Sunita gave a presentation about being an IoPT Midwife and she shared her experiences as an IoPT Midwife and IoPT Trauma Therapist on January 30th, 2024
  • Margriet Wentink gave a presentation about Sexual Trauma with a focus on Healthy Sexuality and Intimacy on February 26th, 2024
  • Katrina Mikiah gave a presentation about ‘Religion and Identity’ on March 26th, 2024
  • Irene Standes, gave a presentation about ‘Emotional Violence, Victim-Perpetrator dynamic from an IoPT perspective’ on April 30th, 2024.
  • Cherionna Menzam-Sills gave a presentation on the topic of ‘Pre- and Perinatal Development’ on May 30th, 2024
  • Rens Meijkamp gave a presentation about “Wheel of transformation by healing trauma” on June 25th, 2024
  • Jenny Hansen gave a presentation about “Breastfeeding as an expression of Love” on July 18th, 2024
  • Anja Jaskolski gave a presentation about “IoPT and Reiki” on September 5th, 2024
  • Franz Ruppert gave a presentation about how he came to develop IoPT and Olaf Thaler offered an IoPT mantra song on October 24th, 2024
  • Vivian Broughton, gave a presentation on the topic of ‘On Being an IoPT Practitioner: Absorbed or Attacked – The Child of the Narcissistically Traumatised Mother’ on the 27th of November 2024
  • Deirdre Kennedy gave a presentation on the biology of connection and connected this to IoPT: “Count on Connection” on December 10th, 2024

2025

  • Amy Spatz, ‘IoPT and Mindfulness’, 28th January 2025
  • Margriet Wentink, ‘Men and Mothers’, 18th February 2025
  • Nancy Greenfield, ‘Pre- and Perinatal Consciouseness and Trauma’, 18th of March 2025
  • Cherionna Menzam-Sills, ‘Prenatal Shadow’, 29th of April 2025
  • Nanneke Smit, ‘Online IoPT Café and the topic of Support, IoPT and Pre- and Perinatal development woven together.’, 27th of May 2025
  • Geir Dale, ‘Conflict dynamics and IoPT group facilitation: What may be hiding in the details of communication, and how can we make it healthy (again?)‘ 23rd of June 2025
  • Milagros CarmonaTrauma, Nature and Society‘, 24th of July 2025
  • Lill Heidi Patriksson, ‘Family Support from an IoPT perspective: How generational – and childhood trauma impacts the entire family.’, 16th of September 2025
  • Katrina Mikiah, ‘Triggers as Teachers: Navigating and Healing Together’, 30th of October 2025
  • Vivian Broughton, ‘What is ‘The Patriarchy’? Can IoPT theory help us understand this phenomenon?‘, 25th of November 2025
  • Peter Devries, “IoPT & Chakra Energy Centers: Supporting the Whole Psyche“, 11th of December 2025

2026

  • Christian Frost, “IoPT, the Helper Syndrom, and the danger of prolonged dependence.”, 27th of January 2026
  • Peter Devries, “IoPT & the understanding of Chakra energy centers” – Part 2, 24th February 2026
  • Nadine Elzas, “How we are trauma-, healthy- and survivalparts, and how that makes us one”, 24th of March 2026
  • Maria Louise Schilt-Thissen, “Bullying as part of a family culture“, 28th of April 2026

Time table:

* Please check the right time in your place.

  • 6 to 8 am Vancouver time
  • 7 to 9 am Mountain time / Denver time
  • 9 to 11 am New York time
  • 10 am to 12 am Sao Paolo/Brasil time
  • 2 to 4 pm UK / Portugal time
  • 4 to 6 pm Israel time
  • 4 to 6 pm Moscow/Russia time
  • 6.30 to 8.30 pm New Delhi time
  • 9 pm to 11 pm Singapore time
  • 12 pm to 2 am Sydney time

How to sign up for the event

You can sign up for the event by sending an email to Nanneke at info@ioptcafe.com

Feel free to ask any questions or share if you have any suggestions for a futher presentation.