Experiential professional learning
Courses
Learn the theory from the inside: through clear teaching, supported self-encounters and time for integration.
Dip your toe—or jump in.
Experience the living practice of IoPT
These open online evenings offer a practical introduction to IoPT for counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches, bodyworkers and other helping professionals.
We begin with a short introduction to an applied theme from Professor Franz Ruppert’s theory. You will then witness the Intention Method through a self-encounter and resonance process—an opportunity to experience the power of resonance and the truths that can emerge through the intention holder’s own intention.
You are welcome to take part in resonance if chosen, ask questions, or simply observe. No previous experience of IoPT is needed.
It may speak to you if you notice:
- Rescuing or over-giving
- Approval-seeking or difficulty with boundaries
- Conflict avoidance
- Feeling responsible for other people
- Losing connection with yourself while helping
Come and sample IoPT in a practical, experiential way—and see whether this approach speaks to you and your professional work.
Three open evenings
per evening · 9 places available
- Monday 5 October 20266:00–8:30pm
- Monday 2 November 20266:00–8:30pm
- Monday 7 December 20266:00–8:30pm
A self-encounter may be pre-booked or selected on the evening, subject to availability. The additional fee is €85.
Featured programme
Introduction to IoPT for Helping Professionals
For counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches, social workers, bodyworkers and experienced helping professionals who want to understand IoPT personally as well as theoretically.
Format
Live online
Group
Maximum 6
Duration
3 weekends
Live hours
24 hours
Rhythm
Every 3 weeks
Fee
€499
Go deeper into what matters now
Themed IoPT journeys
Each pathway follows the same carefully paced structure as the Introduction: three live online weekends, spaced three weeks apart, combining clear theory, supported self-encounters and time for integration. Open a theme to explore its journey.
01 · ORIGINS Wombtime Matters Conception, birth, bonding and attachment through the lens of identity.
Conception, gestation and the developing sense that I exist, am wanted and have a place.
Exploring birth, early bonding, attachment, connection with mother and the presence or absence of father.
Family context, early identifications, differentiating what belongs to me and listening to what I want now.
This course explores wombtime through the IoPT theoretical lens. It does not claim that every present difficulty began prenatally.
02 · MOVEMENT Change & Transitions Finding the courage to be myself when the familiar no longer fits.
Recognising loss, attachment and the survival strategies that hold us to what has been familiar.
Exploring fear, control, loyalty and the inner conflict between wanting change and needing safety.
Strengthening healthy will, choice and the next life-giving movement without forcing an outcome.
03 · CAPACITY Burnout: Work, Worth & Responsibility When giving, coping and carrying responsibility become ways of surviving.
Over-functioning, perfectionism and the identities built around being useful, capable or indispensable.
Family loyalties, work, worth, guilt, boundaries and the difficulty of receiving support.
Restoring contact with limits, healthy wants, meaningful work and a pace that honours the whole person.
Burnout can require medical, psychological and workplace support. This experiential course is educational and is not a substitute for assessment or treatment.
04 · RELATIONSHIP Parenting: Me, My Child & My History The child I was, the parent I am and the relationship I want to create.
Understanding how a child’s needs, feelings and behaviour can touch our own early experience.
Exploring mother, father, family roles and patterns of love, discipline, responsibility and belonging.
Healthy boundaries, repair, self-connection and relating to the child in front of us rather than the past inside us.
05 · EMBODIMENT My Body, My Experience Exploring physical symptoms and illness without reducing them to a psychological cause.
Creating an intention around symptoms or illness and noticing feelings, fears, needs and meanings that are present.
Exploring survival patterns, family experiences, identifications and the pressure to ignore, control or mistrust bodily signals.
Strengthening choice, self-advocacy, boundaries and a more connected relationship with the body alongside appropriate care.
IoPT does not diagnose, explain or cure physical illness. Participants should continue appropriate medical assessment and treatment.
The learning journey
Space to learn. Time to integrate.
WEEKEND 01
Identity
Identity, trauma, survival structures, healthy parts and the foundations of the Intention Method.
Forming an intention and recognising different inner responses through gentle experiential work.
WEEKEND 02
Biography
Early experience, trauma of identity and love, attachment and the development of survival structures.
Exploring family patterns and differentiating our own feelings, wants and life from those of others.
WEEKEND 03
Autonomy
Supported self-encounters and greater recognition of healthy movement, trauma responses and survival reactions.
Autonomy, boundaries, relationship and carrying what has become clearer into everyday life.
Why this training?
Professional knowledge does not place us outside our own history. Familiar roles—rescuing, over-giving, approval-seeking, conflict avoidance or over-responsibility—may still enter our work and relationships.
This course creates a small, carefully held space to explore what belongs to you, what may have developed in relationship and what your healthy self wants now.
How the space is held
- Choice and autonomy throughout
- Invitation rather than pressure
- No diagnosing or interpreting another person
- Clear confidentiality agreements
- Time for reflection and integration
- Respect for each person’s pace and boundaries
Is something in you curious?
Dates for the next group are confirmed with interested participants.