Revised Module 7: Communication through Cultural Impacts
Communication through Cultural ImpactsBabies are continually communicating and seeking connection. Relating and responding to baby in ways that honor their multifaceted capacities for communication supports optimal development and wholeness. The way we communicate is influenced greatly by culture, which in turn has an undeniable impact on how efficient and effective communication is. Babies have their own way of expressing their inner world through non-volitional, non-random gestures. This non-verbal, somatic language has not been recognized in the majority of cultures across the globe. This module explores numerous birth cultures, as well as cultural impacts on the psyche of babies, and in turn how the psyche of a baby impacts society at large.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe birth models that support the subtle/etheric body
- Identify ways in which human biology is linked to nature
- Trace the historical demise of the midwifery model of care in Western societies and the origins of the medicalization of birth
- Identify ways sleep training harms babies
- Discuss the somatic, pre-verbal language of babies and how non-volitional, non-random gestures have been mapped by pioneers in the pre and perinatal sciences to specific periods in prenatal development and during birth
- Compare and contrast cultural influences on birth practices from the East to the West, including indigenous peoples
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.