NeuroAffective Touch Flipbook PresentationsTM
by Dr. Aline LaPierre
Children’s Nonverbal Communication:
The Six Relational Movements
Yield, push, reach, grasp, pull, release—the sequenced development of relational movements lay the nonverbal foundation for a child’s maturing neuro-emotional responses. Each relational movement expresses a need, which when met by the attuned responses of parents and caregivers, contributes to forming a child’s physical, emotional, cognitive, and energetic embodiment and capacity for connection.
From this perspective, relational movements are the overarching, invisible links that shape the body-mind of the infant, remain as the foundation of an adolescent’s implicit beliefs, and when unexamined form the adaptive character of the adult. If we value them, these fundamental movements offer an integrative healing doorway that connects all of us to our origins.
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