Multiple Trauma Vortex

(Prerequisite: OICC, B2C, P2) One of the fundamental understandings in Organic Intelligence® (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,, 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 early human 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?” Multiple Trauma Vortex participants learn about key developmental patternings, with specific focus on the Pre– and Perinatal period, early childhood, and adolescence. The introduction to these typical patternings include fractal “stacks” of related life events (like birth, attachment, traumatic events, and the development of agency), and highlights that these are fixations, or automatically repeating physiological (and of course relational) states. Unique to OI, coaches and therapists learn to recognize the organically arising “stacks”-- the most salient states emerging in session for work in the moment. OI calls these interconnected salient neighborhoods the “Complex du Jour”. Within the Complex du Jour, OI Coaches learn to facilitate cycles of (primarily positive) organismic intensity—the prototypically organizing dynamic of 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 OI clinical protocol utilizing the organic Free Association Conversations which OI Coaches learn from the beginning.