OI HEART Coach Program

Advanced Frameworks in Post-Trauma Growth

In the OI HEART Coach program, OI introduces for the first time a meaningful engagement with the notion of trauma (e.g., Multiple Trauma Vortex and Intergenerational Trauma Healing). This program elaborates on the fundamental frameworks of positive reinforcement and seeing how the biology builds a nest of support. OI HEART Coach participants gain experience working with increasingly intense topics that clients bring in. Thus, these courses invoke the term “trauma”, but the course content elaborates the specific OI understanding of trauma.

The successful completion of the OI HEART Coach program leads to further competence at the OI Specialist (OIS) level, where courses and specializations, including in trauma, mindfulness, and group work will be available.

• 1. Biology To Cosmos

  (Prerequisite: OICC)
  Begins Oct 23, 2022

  In OICC, OI Coaches learn to reflect the signals of support sent by the biology through the Image, Sensation, Orientation, Meaning, Affect (ISOMA) channels. These signals are constant, yet unconscious, due to the contrary influence and dominance of the negativity bias.

  In Biology to Cosmos (B2C), systems of support become clearer. In B2C, OI Coaches train to recognize, differentiate, and attunedly reflect the organizing messages centered on a person’s intersectionality. These interrelated contexts are frames of reference, like holding environments (Winnicott & Bion), where humans share beliefs, rituals and where they can typically identify. These frames of reference include one’s biological level of organization as it relates to the family system level, the affinity or clan level, species, nature, and cosmos levels. See B2C graphic below.

  We’ll see how symptoms are reinforced, fixated by the “explanation” (i.e., reiterated ISOMA pattern) arising at a given level. For instance, one person may ascribe to the explanation that they have depression and it is a biochemical imbalance—the biological level of explanation. For another, they may describe their condition as a spiritual passage, the dark night of the soul—a cosmological level of explanation. Each level, from the biological to the cosmological (metaphysical) will be examined, discussed, and practiced.

  Participants in Biology to Cosmos will learn how to use the ISOMA associates and key resources that most frequently arise from each system level, and learn how these organizing states form the lattice of growth toward increased capacity, connectivity, and complexity within the client. This lattice is a specific, identifiable form, or pattern of interactions. One of the necessary, overarching skills to be incorporated in this OI HEART Coach program is the coach’s ability to recognize the germination of that form.

  
  
• 2. Phase 2
  (Prerequisite: OICC; B2C)
  Coming Spring, 2023With the support found in the ISOMA framework and Biology to Cosmos (B2C), next comes training in Phase 2 (P2). In Phase 2 we look at the unique transformative role of this Phase, including the transition from Phase 1 to Phase 3. Participants study the early, middle, and late designations of Phase 2, as well as its fractal nature of the 3 phase dynamic within it. Recognizing the key indicators of early, middle, and late Phase 2 provides the attunement necessary for supporting a client’s growth of integrative impulse in this phase.

  

  A host of techniques will be discussed that—when offered in an attuned context—provide the precise support for which the client’s system is asking. Participants will learn a broad sampling of actionable tools which will build their therapeutic toolkit. More importantly, participants learn the vital framework for recognizing which is the right tool for the right moment. This involves recognizing a client’s trajectory that includes their own use of tools that are strategies, choices, and actions related to positively influencing the inner and outer environments.

• 3. Multiple Trauma Vortex

  (Prerequisite: OICC; B2C, P2)

  One of the fundamental understandings in OI is fractal. Coined in 1975 by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, this lens began to help humans understand the fundamental nature of matter. Nature organizes in recognizable non-linear forms, like the shape of clouds or rivulets formed by water on the beach. These repetitive forms, or self-similarities, occur also within human biology, the human psyche or mind, our associative network. In OI we call these networks the neural neighborhoods, or just neighborhoods, and begin looking for their “shape” by their unique constellations of ISOMA.

  In Multiple Trauma Vortex (MTV), the third course in the OI HEART Coach program, we look specifically at the dimensions of experience that forge the links in these associative networks. In order to understand these networks, we must begin to address the question, “What guides the formation of these networks?” or “How do these networks organize?” Firstly, OI Coaches learn to track organismic intensity—one of the primary organizing characteristics in our associative network. Other important links for tracking include motor patterns of self-protection and state-specific links to time and place (and developmental condition or age)—elements seamlessly built into the clinical protocol OI Coaches learn from the beginning.

• 4. Image to Archetype

  (Prerequisite: OICC; B2C, P2, MTV)

  Healing through imagery has a long and storied history for humans, and holds a central place as an Organic Intelligence framework. The utility of image work for re-stitching the fabric of the biology and the psyche needs to be well understood to provide help, and to see results that are possible for our clients. Using image to evoke, accelerate, or inhibit states is a key skill; it is especially important, as the Image Channel is a uniquely agile avenue of support when significant Freeze is on board. For a system in Phase 1, stabilization is more likely with the coach’s use of imagery or imagery-evoking language or movement. Image is also vital for priming a system in relation to self-protective movements embedded in states of Fight and Flight. Likewise, we use image for lighting up the neighborhoods of the complex du jour. The deepest integrative states—and the most transformative—are often indicated by imagery of universal symbols, mandalas, geometric designs, or particular colors.

  In Image to Archetype (I2A), we explore the physiological mechanisms of imagery, consider the important role of mirror neurons, and facilitate the coach’s use of imagery with clients. Coaches will also practice the allowance and introduction of their own use of imagery in session. We will continue the discernment process, sorting what of the coach’s experience derives from, and is useful for, the relational field and what is more purely a personally relevant image. This clarity will help OI Coaches learn how to employ the Image Channel in cultivating initial conditions to shepherd a system toward the next organic threshold, and to facilitate the deepest integrations toward archetypal embodiment and dissolution of fixed self-identifications. This is the Phase 1 to 2 to 3 trajectory. OI Coaches will learn the science, see demos, and practice using image as a support for organic system integration, from biology to cosmos.

• 5. First 30 Seconds & Holographic Blue

  (Prerequisite: OICC; B2C, P2, MTV, I2A)

  Organic Intelligence knowledge and practice develops in tandem with the coach’s felt sense of fractal forms in session. Building on all the previous OI HEART Coach frameworks, First 30 Seconds & Holographic Blue (FHB) amplifies the coach’s vision for recognizing fractal forms in the client. The complex du jour, as the organizing ethos of the client in session, is communicating all the time. The coach’s ability to recognize the complex du jour and respond in that call-and-response of the session’s initial moments sets both the coach’s and the client’s system in sync for the direction of deepest healing. This healing is often held within a resolving complex called the Holographic Blue, a network of linked associations that is like a psychic image, or map, of the complex du jour’s integration. In this way, fixations, or the fixed patterns of ISOMA interactions, move from fixity to spontaneity and in-the-moment responding.

• 6. Love & Lineage | Intergenerational Trauma Healing

  It is becoming clearer that trauma is not just what happened to an individual. It is also what has happened to our species—and how our species has passed that system of discontinuity along to the rest of the planet. Our biology expects home, our natural environment: hunting and gathering, tribal and clan society, the daily connection with nature, spiritual heritage, and an unbroken ancestral lineage. While OICC trains for work at the individual, biological level of our existence, Love & Lineage (L&L) broadens the themes related to healing the societal, transgenerational, and epigenetic struggles of existential isolation and suffering derived from the divorce of our ancestral past. To do this, we must find our family—in the largest sense of family.

  This course will be a combination of personal experiential work and professional skill-building. Jung identified archetypal forms as having genetic linkage. This course will focus on the deep integration that becomes possible by finding one’s place in the continuity of personal ancestral lineage. Acknowledging the disruption of cross-generational continuity, Love & Lineage focuses on healing those archetypal forms through transgenerational resources.