Bonding and Attachment
This module covers the bonding process from early prenatal through post-birth. The issues of connection and separation are primary themes.
This course also addresses issues around receiving nutrition and emotional nurturing.
Skills introduced in this module include:
- How early imprinting affects future relationship formation and individual motivation patterns.
- Prenatal implantation dynamics and the development of the placenta and umbilical cord.
- Energetic umbilical dynamics and related movement imprinting.
- Birth dynamics, the cutting of the umbilical cord, newborn self-attachment behaviors, and the nature of the baby’s first contact with her mother and father after birth.
- The baby’s ability to attach to his/her mother emotionally, at the breast and the establishment of healthy nursing patterns.
- Specific therapeutic protocols for resourcing, resolving and re-patterning bonding and attachment trauma and a means for establishing nursing with babies who are unable to nurse or having difficulty with nursing.