Year 1 | Session 1: Introduction to IBP

3 Days | 21 Hours of Instruction

A theoretical and experiential overview of IBP methodology as a somatic-based therapeutic modality in the context of traditional and emerging approaches in the mental health fields. Key IBP concepts and tools are introduced for in-depth study and practice later in the program. Students are encouraged to develop a cohesive group, and to awaken somatic sense of self through presence, boundaries and object relations.

Year 1 | Session 3: Body & History II – Somatic History & Holding Patterns

4 Days | 28 hours of instruction

Year 1 | Session 5: (For Students in the Mental Health Professional Track Only) Psychological Arenas – Beginning Sessions

3 Days | 21 hours of instruction

Session has a dual focus: (1) integrate and assimilate the learning from the four previous Year 1 sessions and (2) develop within the student an understanding of the basic fundamentals of a complete IBP body-mind psychotherapeutic intervention through supervised sessions in which students in turn act as therapist, client, and observer.

Year 2 | Session 2: Working with the Body II – Releasing Holding Patterns

3 Days | 21 hours of instruction

This is the second of three weekend sessions in the IBP Training Program focused on the body. It continues exploration of the psychological holding patterns in the body and anatomical functions of body segments introduced in Body I, and how to recognize the memory with associated beliefs, emotions and behaviors held in various segments. Students gain a deeper understanding of anatomy and inhibited function.

Year 2 | Session 4: Advanced Body & Resolving Developmental Injuries

4 Days | 28 Hours of Instruction

The third of three Body sessions in the IBP Training Program, this session offers an in-depth focus on the pelvic segment. Students gain a deeper knowledge of pelvic anatomy, the nervous system and pelvic segmentation as it relates to holding and release patterns registered in the body due to psychological events.

Year 3 | Session 1: Body-Mind Skills Integration

Students demonstrate an integrated understanding of IBP mental health concepts and skills. Critical in attaining therapeutic intervention ability, therapist-client attunement (i.e., the transference relationship) — the cornerstone of IBP therapy — requires students to demonstrate accurate use of IBP mental health skills in understanding their personal lives and achieving a heightened, strengthened, authentic sense of self.

Year 3 | Session 3: Existential & Transpersonal I & II

4 Days | 28 Hours of Instruction

This session embarks upon the issues of existence, states of consciousness and transformation of consciousness. Throughout the weekend, students are guided to experience and delve into a deeper place of self-inquiry, to confront existential issues of impermanence, authenticity, aloneness, attachments and the cycles of life. Issues of aging are also addressed.  Existential, spiritual, transpersonal awakening cannot be taught. It can only be explored and opportunities for awakening provided.

Year 3 | Session 5: (For Students in the Mental Health and Allied Professional Tracks Only, Associate Students By Invitation Only) Case Studies, Demonstration Session Presentations, and Certification Sessions

5 Days | 35 Hours of Instruction

This class begins the culmination of the IBP three-year Professional Training Program. In an atmosphere for advanced learning, each student must show their competence with IBP concepts and skills by presenting a case study.  Students will be asked to do a demonstration session with one of the other students, and then a final certification session.  Allied Professionals present examples of how they use IBP theory and practices with clients in their fields (e.g., how a divorce attorney might use this knowledge with his clients; a business coach might use IBP methods to understand and resolve workplace conflicts; a massage therapist in “reading” her client’s body; or an actor in creating the role of a character).