IBP Mission & Purpose

IBP integrates the best approaches from Eastern and Western psychological, physiological and spiritual body-mind theories and practices into a highly efficient and effective somatic implementation model.

IBP offers training, workshops and weekend intensives for mental health professionals, allied professionals, associates and the general public. IBP highly values and therefore incorporates personal growth as integral to developing the skills necessary to provide excellent therapy and other interpersonal professional services.

IBP provides training in a non-invasive somatic model that treats the whole person, integrating body, mind, emotions, and spirit, enabling psychotherapists to do deeper more meaningful work in less time with more lasting results. It also provides a unique opportunity for allied professionals and associates — people outside the mental health fields — to develop an understanding of psychological complexity and compassion similar to that of psychotherapists. IBP experiential practices enable psychotherapists, allied professionals, associates — and their clients (as well as others with whom they apply their learning) — to break through archaic, somatically maintained dysfunctional behavior patterns by reawakening and establishing fully integrated states of well-being, constancy and sense of self in the body. As a voluminous amount of evidence is beginning to show, and many who have experienced this work can attest to, this can facilitate a transformation of consciousness at the core of our being.

Beth Bardovi
Director - IBP Central Institute