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Connection-Centered Parenting

Connection-Centered Parenting (CCP) is the practical application of the LP Psychological Framework and Lightning Path Human Development Framework within parenting and caregiving contexts. It is designed to prevent damage, heal disconnection, and support full-spectrum child development (Human Flourishing) by providing Needs-Satisfying Environments and fostering healthy Connection between children, caregivers, the environment, the natural world, and the Fabric of Consciousness.
Rooted in the LP understanding that children thrive in connection, CCP emphasizes the creation of safe, attuned, truthful, and ideologically-free environments where healing, satisfaction of the Seven Essential Needs, and integration can occur.

Concept Map

Notes

While the LP Psychological Framework provides the theoretical structure (e.g., Ego Modes, Connection Framework, Needs Satisfaction, Disconnection, and L-I-N Dynamics), Connection-Centered Parenting is its direct implementation within the domain of child-rearing and family systems.

Practitioners of Connection-Centered Parenting:

Provide Needs-Satisfying Environments for physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs
Attune to the child’s Spiritual Ego and Bodily Ego to support connection and Integration
Recognize and eliminate Ideology (I) and Lying (L) embedded in inherited parenting models
Replace punishment, coercion, and discipline with Relational Safety, Containment, and modeling of authentic presence
Facilitate development from Deficit Mode to Growth Mode through consistent attunement
Support their own healing as caregivers in order to avoid reenacting disconnection and trauma
Work to repair Toxic Socialization damage caused by colonial, capitalist, and authoritarian child-rearing norms

Fields of Application

Parenting and caregiving
Attachment and early childhood development
Healing from intergenerational trauma
Parent education and Connection Coaching
Community and cultural revitalization efforts
Institutional reform (schools, clinics, child welfare systems)

Research & Sources

Sosteric, Mike. “The Damage We’re Doing to Our Children and Ourselves.” June 24, 2018. https://repo.lightningpath.org/articles/journalistic-pieces/the-conversation/the-damage-we-are-doing-to-ourselves.html
HEALING Framework
Lightning Path Workbooks (esp. Book Two: HEALING Framework, and Book Three: Connection Framework)
Rocket Scientists' Guide to Authentic Spirituality

Future Desiderata

Development of caregiver Connection Assessment Tools and Need-Satisfaction indices
Longitudinal case studies comparing CCP with mainstream models
Integration of CCP into Healing-Centered Pedagogy and community healing modalities
Creation of multimedia parent education curriculum grounded in the LP system

Citation and Legal

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-== Purpose and Focus ==
+== Notes ==
-While the '''LP Psychological Framework''' provides the '''theoretical structure''' (e.g., Ego Modes, Connection Framework, Needs Satisfaction, Disconnection, and L-I-N dynamics), '''Connection-Centered Parenting''' is its direct implementation within the domain of child-rearing and family systems.
+While the '''LP Psychological Framework''' provides the '''theoretical structure''' (e.g., Ego Modes, Connection Framework, Needs Satisfaction, Disconnection, and [[L-I-N Dynamics]]), '''Connection-Centered Parenting''' is its direct implementation within the domain of child-rearing and family systems.
 Practitioners of Connection-Centered Parenting:

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