Your Biology Already Knows How to Heal & Grow —
Now, Learn Its Language.
By Steven Hoskinson, Bach Ho
A trusted legacy of therapeutic innovation in resilience and Post-Trauma Growth, professional training, and compassion-focused leadership development.
The OI global community is making a world of difference. Sample for yourself what Organic Intelligence® positive psychology is all about. Connect with another human being who will help you discover your own healing nature.
Each person is unique. Organic Intelligence Coaches certify in the OI Trajectory to specially attune to each and every client—discovering together their unique gifts and supporting the inner wisdom of their organic healing path.
Organic Intelligence® offers a departure from the status quo of therapy and coaching. Built on decades of cutting-edge science and real-world results, OI taps into the natural intelligence already inside you, living in your biology’s own rhythmic symphony—the natural experience of resilience, growth and compassion.
Where traditional methods dig through the painful past to try to get to the root of symptoms, Organic Intelligence takes a different path. OI teaches how to sync into the the natural, self-organizing systems of your body. Born of a resource beyond traditional notions of trauma, this is Post-Trauma Growth.
We certify people as OI Coaches, but “coaching” has particular meaning here. OI Training imparts the skills and clarity that helps clients recognize their own healing nature. Learning to empower others in this way is thus liberating for the Coach as well as the client.
Organic Intelligence begins by seeing in each person, each client, their essential impulse of healing and growth. This impulse of re-integration is often found in states that seem so simple, like a glance out the window, the left thumb that strokes the right elbow, or the spontaneous image of my grandmother’s hands. These states are exactly what is needed in the moment—not just for feeling better, but for the system effect. OI Coaching supports these states so they express their system intent: growing processing capacity—the growth of human bandwidth.
For over 100 years since Freud, it has been presumed that “making the unconscious conscious” heals us, and that what is unconscious is what is unpalatable to the psyche. OI finds the opposite. What is suppressed is that which is unacceptable to therapy culture: the right amount of positive intensity at the right moment. This is also unpalatable at an instinctive level because it registers as a system change, and therefore a threat to a stable, viable organism. Thus, real change agents, like the right amounts of positive excitation, mostly remain unconscious. That is, until an OI Coach enters into their OI “Free Association Conversation” with a client without repeatedly reinforcing the negativity bias.
Despite a diversification of approaches, therapy outcomes have not improved. Why? Because virtually all the diversifications rely on the same flawed assumption: “You have to feel it to heal it.” Where “it” is a negative state, like recalling your traumas and problematic feelings. Instead, OI offers a safer method, proven in practice for over two decades: how positive intensity, properly placed, can be medicine. This is our biological advantage. Simply put, trauma creates biological disorganization—the ultimate cause of distress and dysfunction. OI has discovered how re-organization is naturally catalyzed, and trains people in this preferred method of healing at the most fundamental, biological level.
In becoming a helping professional, one soon realizes that “research is me-search.” (Milton Trager) That is, our wish for our own relief and healing, once attained, becomes a wish for others’ wellbeing. We recognize that to be in integrity in helping others, we must at the same time help ourselves.
Organic Intelligence offers foundational and advanced trainings in personal resilience and professional development. All trainings are compassion-based, science-backed and intentionally sequenced. Each course creates the experiential knowledge necessary for integrating the next level of clinical practice. This constitutes the OI professional training sequence known as the OI Trajectory, a highly ethical path of self-discovery and professional excellence.
Wherever you may begin, you will find super-abundant support. Furthermore, you can begin with confidence, knowing “What you seek is seeking you…”
Founder
Steve Hoskinson has authored and taught as a thought leader in Post-Trauma Growth for over 25 years, and has trained thousands of therapists, coaches and helping professionals around the globe.
– Steven Hoskinson
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“It’s been absolutely transformative for me.
It opened up this curiosity for me—the centeredness, the relaxed feeling. It changed me.”
Neruma
“What OI means to me and my life, I struggle to put words to it. The impact it has had on me and my relationships is beyond words.”
Tony
“OI has deeply reinforced my trust in my own physiology, in my own intuition; my trust in my own capacity to know where and how to connect with people, and my trust in people themselves.”
Andi
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