PHILOSOPHY > THE EMERGING QUESTION
Emerging Families was founded in 2006 with the inspiration to begin our celebration of a child's sentience even before he or she is conceived. There are fields of science and psychology that have been looking at the effects events during pre- conception through the first birthday have on our nervous systems, immune systems and emotional coping stategies; even as adults.
Emerging Families and many other practitioners and scientists around the world are uniting to understand how babies communicate with us even when they do not have all the words. We are looking at subtle nuances in brain development, movements both in and out of the womb, and many other signs babies, (and adults) give us indicating events from inside the womb and birth are remembered!
It's an exciting time in history where we are learning more than we've ever known about what babies experience, respond to and remember, even from inside the womb.
We are challenged as individuals and as cultures if we consider the implications when we know this. How can we provide the most emotionally and physically nutritious environment for children to be conceived and reared in? And how can we remain compassionate with ourselves if we unknowingly have missed opportunities as parents and community members to do this?
Emerging Families holds great optimism. It is our experience that it is never too late to begin the repair process of even the most unwanted and difficult experiences from these early times and childhood.
Even if so-called 'trauma' never occurred, we are always Emerging and this work is a fascinating journey to take regardless.
We already know that if families can receive the proper support through rest, time together, naturally grown food and the emotional support of their community, they are already making their journey easier and more enjoyable.
To add to this, Emerging Families adds the Family Field healing model which offers the ability to differentiate unmet needs we may have had as prenates (babies in the womb), and as young babies. Experiences from these times have affected us in ways that are so subtle and ingrained that we sometimes do not have words for them. We often unknowingly pass these needs on to relationships, jobs, our students and to our children and in the style with which we birth. Very few therapies access this layer of awareness because it is often preverbal. For this reason, therapy and education are not just for people having babies, but for everyone!
We hope by resolving the impact difficult experiences have had on us from our earliest times so to effectively free ourselves from reactivity in our nervous systems, immune systems, and emotions, so our lives become more fluid and authentic.
Over the next several years, we will be gathering and uniting therapists, organizations, governments, and the public under our common celebration of sentience; not just for humans, but for all of life. The campaign of celebration takes its inspiration from the word Emergence, the self-organizing principle found throughout nature.
We hope to celebrate with you! To read more, please click here:
Emergence- an excerpt from The Secret Life of Babies (second edition soon to be listed, please check back)....
