Connection-Centered Parenting
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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
Key Terms
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- LP HEALING Framework
- LP Connection Framework
- LP Creative Framework
- LP Psychological Framework
- Pathfinder Educational Model
- Human Psyche
- Consciousness
- Connection
- Connection Capacity
- Physical Unit
- Connection-Centered Psychology
- Disconnection
- Connection-Centered Parenting
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Related LP Terms
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Non-LP Related Terms
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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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