Oprah on The Hoffman Process, How to Forgive Your Parents – And Yourself

The Oprah Podcast

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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For over 50 years, The Hoffman Process has helped over 100,000 people transform their lives, helping participants identify negative behaviors, moods, and ways of thinking that developed unconsciously and were conditioned in childhood. Charles “Raz” Ingrasci, co-founder, executive, consultant, and facilitator within the “Human Potential Movement” joins The Oprah Podcast to speak about the popular Hoffman Institute and how their personal growth retreat helps those searching for transformation, spiritual growth, and leadership skills. Actor Orlando Bloom joins the conversation to share his experience with the Hoffman Institute and how it transformed his own life and his parenting style. Raz offers insight into the Hoffman Process by explaining the two core principles; the first being the quadrinity, which is based on four dimensions of self that occur interactively at once, physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. The second principle Raz explains is how our survival mechanism is dependent on the parent-child bond, and how that impulse for unconditional love follows us from childhood into adulthood. https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org Follow Oprah Winfrey on Social: https://www.instagram.com/oprahpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/oprah/ https://www.facebook.com/oprahwinfrey/ Listen to the full podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0tEVrfNp92a7lbjDe6GMLI https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oprah-podcast/id1782960381 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So a warm welcome to you, and thanks for joining us on the Oprah podcast,
0:04.8	where I'm always so delighted to be able to share conversations with you
0:09.6	about the human experience, about the bigger questions that we all have in life
0:16.2	when we get still enough to ponder them, and things I believe that matter most to all of us.
0:22.8	And on this episode, we're asking the question, is it possible to confront your worst demons,
0:33.0	unwind all the negative patterns you have learned from your parents, have compassion for your parents,
0:43.2	and forgive them, then heal and begin to discover who you really are without all the baggage from your
0:53.6	childhood.
0:57.0	Now, that sounds like a very tall order,
1:00.3	but the reason why I wanted to do this podcast today is because I've been running into many people
1:03.7	who say they have done just that,
1:06.7	really accepted that tall order and been able to move on with their lives and release the past.
1:16.0	Maybe you have or maybe you haven't heard of the Hoffman process.
1:21.1	Well, I have heard it described as 10 years of therapy in one week, like a psychological detox, some people call it.
1:30.1	And other people have said it's a therapy retreat only for the wealthy or the famous.
1:36.2	Others may think it's a hippie-dippy kind of way to spend a week on your personal growth.
1:41.3	But lately, the thing I keep hearing about the Hoffman process,
1:45.2	and I try to pay attention to the signs
1:47.5	when it keeps coming up.
1:48.8	So I thought it was worthwhile to learn more about it
1:52.6	and to share it with you,
1:54.2	because it seems to be a thing that lots of people are talking about,
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