Conscious Embodiment Trainings

07/10/2025

Introduction to Integrative Baby Therapy
Three Part Live Course with Matthew Appleton
Thursdays, 9/16/30 October 2025 at 19h UK time

Integrative Baby Therapy (IBT) is an emerging healing modality that has been taught to many practitioners, including obstetricians, midwives, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, osteopaths, craniosacral therapists and others, throughout Europe.

IBT, is a systemic, relational and embodied approach to working with babies and their families. Babies, children and parents are seen as active participants, whose inherent intelligence can reveal ever deeper levels of potential change and healing. Traumatic imprints from prenatal life and birth are given space to unfold and with the support of empathic presence and enquiry, to resolve. As well as relieving present moment distress for both babies and parents, this creates a more stable foundation for future growth and development.

This course is designed to convey the principles underlying Integrative Baby Therapy and how they are applied in the clinical context.

Find out more: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/introduction-integrative-baby-therapy

03/10/2025

02/10/2025

Working with babies in a therapeutic context can be one of the most satisfying experiences for a practitioner. Providing the space for the baby to ‘tell their story’ and then helping them integrate whatever unresolved pre-birth and birth issues are lingering, gives them a whole different start in life then when these things remain unacknowledged.

One of the best known experts in the field of baby therapy, Matthew Appleton, will give us an introduction to the core principles of Integrative Baby Therapy in his upcoming three part course.

Join us for a free introduction to the course on Thursday, 2 October at 19h UK time.

Register here: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/introduction-integrative-baby-therapy

28/09/2025

Baby Clinic at Polvarella, Italy. Many thanks to the team - Rosella, Matteo, Carol and Alberto, to the participants and to the families who came to experience Integrative Baby Therapy (IBT). It was a pleasure and a privilege to be able to share the work in this atmosphere of enthusiasm and openness.

22/09/2025

Just finished the workshop ‘The Sacred Other’ in Italy. This was the first time we ran this workshop on prenatal twin loss. Thank you to the amazing team and all the participants who brought this subject to life. It was a profound and deeply inspiring experience. Grazie.

10/09/2025

This is a good overview of the work of Wilhelm Reich. Reich is one of the seminal influences on our trainings. It can be difficult to get a clear perspective on him, as there is a lot of misinformation and confusion in the public realm. This interview is a good starting point for a more informed discussion.

What happens when we revisit Wilhelm Reich’s journey from Freud’s student to radical theorist of desire, politics, and repression? In this episode, we sit do...

26/07/2025

We are honored to announce the 2025 inductees into the Hall of Honor, recognizing the exceptional contributions of individuals whose work has transformed our understanding of life before birth and its impact postnatally.

23/07/2025

Still a few places left on these workshops in Italy. A lovely group of people in a beautiful location. In English with Italian translation.

10/07/2025

ULTIMI POSTI PER IL SEMINARIO
The Sacred Other
La Perdita del Gemello Prenatale
Con Matthew Appleton
18 -21 Settembre 2025 a Caderzone (Trento)
Per info: info@inorigine.it

10/07/2025

Matthew Appleton nella nuova formazione in Prenatale e Nascita di In Origine.

Matthew Appleton, docente di fama internazionale sul lavoro con i neonati e bambini sarà in Italia con In Origine nella prossima formazione PeN. “E’ una occasione straordinaria”, spiega Rosella Denicolò, direttrice didattica del training. “E’ davvero incredibile la ricchezza di esperienza che Matthew Appleton porta nel suo lavoro con i neonati e bambini, la delicatezza e la precisione con cui dialoga con i bebè e i loro genitori”. L’IBT, approccio creato da Appleton, riconosce i bambini come esseri senzienti sin dal concepimento e li aiuta a elaborare esperienze traumatiche della nascita che non erano ancora state integrate. Questi vissuti precoci sono alla base di molti disagi che i neonati presentano come le coliche, disturbi del sonno, pianto inconsolabile, irrequietezza. L’IBT ha due strumenti fondamentali che permettono di riconoscere la storia prenatale e di nascita di un neonato: il Baby Body Language e il Pianto di Memoria. “Il neonato racconta la sua storia attraverso movimenti e attraverso il pianto”, continua Rosella Denicolò. “Anche la forma del cranio o compressioni in specifiche parti del volto possono essere indicatori di difficoltà attraversate in uno dei 4 stadi della nascita. Alla base della formazione in Prenatale e Nascita c’è inoltre un enorme patrimonio di esperienze cliniche che mostrano le conseguenze di alcune esperienze precoci sullo stile di attaccamento e sul nostro mondo relazionale nella vita adulta. Gli interventi chimici o strumentali al parto, per esempio, come il cesareo, il forcipe, la ventosa hanno conseguenze che non sono solo fisiologiche, ma anche psicologiche”. Il percorso della formazione Pen è esperienziale. I seminari condotti da Rosella Denicolò dedicati al paradigma pre e perinatale nel lavoro con adolescenti e adulti, si alternano con quelli di Matthew Appleton dedicati al lavoro con i bebè e la famiglia.
Il Training Biennale Pen inizierà a febbraio 2026 a Poggio Torriana – Rimini. Per info: Franca 334 1569112, info@inorigine.it ,https://www.inorigine.it/formazione/,

09/06/2025

This short piece by Thomas Harms is very accurate. It resonates well with our work as Integrative Baby Therapists.

EARLY ROOTS OF DEMOCRACY

Crying is a newborn child's first expression of opinion. It protests against living conditions that do not suit it. It raises its voice to point out deficits, pain or loss of relationships.

It also cries to point out a lack of human support. Baby crying is an imperative. It calls on us - adults, parents and educators - to act. Be with me! Calm me down! Hold me! Warm me! Talk to me! Nurture me! Baby cries contain messages that need to be received and responded to. In order to pacify a baby's crying, a prompt response is needed in the social sphere. Only when the responsible people adequately receive the child's expressions of displeasure and respond appropriately will the child feel heard and noticed in its distress.

If this cognitive and emotional coordination is successful, the child experiences successful intersubjectivity. His voice is heard and taken seriously by his social environment. In all of this, the baby learns that it can make a difference with its efforts. In our Emotional First Aid - work we help young parents to hear, tolerate and respond sensitively to these “baby songs”. In this way, we create a basis for our children to be able to accept and respond to other people's voices later on.

Only those who have been reliably heard by their fellow human beings, who have had the experience of being able to deal with their feelings and feelings of others from the very beginning, will be able to respond.

Only those who have been reliably heard by their fellow human beings, who experience from the outset that their feelings and needs are taken seriously, develop trust in a supportive and protective world. If we take away babies' right to cry, it means that we take away their right to freedom of expression. Instead of experiencing a supportive closeness, the child has to drink, suck or swallow its feelings. Instead of entering into a lively dialog with its environment, it is forced to change itself and make itself fit in. The baby's protest gets stuck in its throat. The result is that we fall silent and become still.

In Emotional First Aid, babies and toddlers experience that their voice is given a weight that has meaning even when we disagree.

Thomas Harms
www.zeppbremen.de
Photo: jessica-hearn-gD-wfCMzTK4-unsplash.jpg

09/06/2025

Celebrating the end of the first IBT training in Hungary. Thanks to everyone who participated in this journey and made it such a deep and rich experience.