What is Ideal Parent Figure Protocol?

So, good news, insecure internal maps of attachment and insecure patterns of behavior can be modified and changed for the better.

Memory is limited to our actual experience with the caregivers we grew up with, but imagination creates new possibilities.

With IPF we do a meditation where you’ll begin to imagine an ideal parent figure for yourself. This exploration is about your ideal parent, someone perfectly suited to your nature in every way.

We are not attempting to repair or replace the actual parenting experiences that you had. We’re trying to make these “completely pristine independent entries into the perceptual database,” as one of my mentors George Haas says.

What happens as you do this work is that after a while you’ll begin to respond differently to the world. You’ll begin to make new choices based on the new “love map” or Internal Working Model.

And this, dear ones, is when we do a little happy dance (and we don’t care who sees us!)

See Ep. 14 of the Vlog YOU HAD ME AT BONJOUR where I guide Amy Dresner in a session of IPF

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Is there evidence that this works?

Ok Nancy Drew, here's the clinical research….

Read an Independant Study

Here is an independent clinical study on IPF done by Federico Parra and his colleagues in Paris

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Find Daniel P. Brown's book

In this 2017 book my mentor Daniel P. Brown offers his process for Attachment repair and the IPF protocol

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See an Example

Daniel P. Brown demonstrates the Ideal Parent Figure Protocol, the foundation for IPF in this short video

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What past clients are saying...

Julie (New Jersey, USA)

"I was able to understand about secure attachment and behavior and learn how to recognize when feelings are arising that are coming from the insecure background and utilizing new tools to inform future behavior. Although it was hard to face how my childhood affected my life, it was fairly easy to understand the process (of IPF). I was very pleased and I enjoyed the journey."

Joanna (Spain)

"I’ve really appreciated Ideal Parent Figure protocol sessions with Dufflyn. I find her interventions very warm, skilled with the protocol and also very supportive. Working with her I have had multiple resolutions and noticeable increase in imaginative capacity and real-time mentalization, as well as emergence of completely novel positive state experiences and perspectives."

Hannah (Los Angeles, USA)

"There's clear evidence of psycho spiritual integration in action leading to me having new identity and new capacity, emerging from old unconscious patterns of allowing myself to be tricked into inequitable relating that creates vulnerability in me and evasion in others, that can lead me to lose a sense of choice and personal power. Wow. Clarity is Queen!!"

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