Revised Module 6: Innate Needs
Module 6: Psycho-Emotional Developmental Stages of Humans: Innate Emotional Needs
Guiding Principle of Innate Needs: The innate need for security, belonging, love and nurturing, feeling wanted, feeling valued, and being seen as the Self we are is present from the beginning of life. Meeting these needs and providing the right environment supports optimal development. This module builds upon Module 5 by analyzing the universal needs all humans have and maps where these needs come on line in the developing embryo, fetus, child, youth, and young adult. This presentation of the psycho-emotional developmental stages of humans reveals how we can create more coherent, regulated relationships in life. When a person can identify needs and understand how to meet them, then compassionate communication styles can unfold along with safe, secure attachment styles.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the Adverse Childhood Experiences study and its implications regarding the impact of early traumatic experiences on the adult body
- Describe how early experiences correlate with adult physiology with research on the impact of the HPA axis, stress versus trauma, maternal depression, disorganized attachment, ADD, ADHD, addiction and interpersonal violence
- Describe the main discoveries in the study of genetics, epigenetics, and attachment that led to therapies which augment repair approaches or recovery from trauma strategies
- Explain the ways in which cultural ‘norms’ undermine health and wellbeing through various forms of identification and denial
- List compassionate birth practices that preserve the psycho-emotional needs of babies as defined by Robin Grille’s 5 Rites of Passage
- Discuss the short-term and long-term psychological consequences of common birth interventions used today, such as pitocin, C-section, and obstetrical interventions
Your Instructor
Christianna Deichmann, RCST®, PPNE, LMT is a somatic psychotherapist focusing on pre and perinatal psychology, conscious parenting through emotional awareness, and the spiritual science of nurture. She practices massage, Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy, and pre and perinatal psycho-somatic techniques to help adults, children, and babies release and integrate the pivotal and life altering experiences we have during conception, in-utero, birth, postpartum and early childhood. She is also a trained doula and works with birthing people prior to, during and after birth.
She has been working with the body for over 20 years and deeply believes
in the connection between the physical, spiritual, emotional and mental layers of the body to nature. Healing is about connection: connection to our deepest Self, to one another, and to the powerful health and ability to heal that is inherent in us all. Her greatest goal is to
help women reconnect to themselves, to where they feel the most wise, whole and supported, and can go on to create nurturing relationships.