The psychology of birth imprinting: A circle for helping professionals
Passing on 40 years of lived experience and knowledge to the next generation of helping professionals
Attunement Over Agenda: Mastering the Relational Field
There is a magic that happens when people feel truly safe in a space. A settling. An opening. A willingness to be seen.
Most of us were never taught how to create that — not in our training, not in our certifications, not in leadership programs. We learned content, structure, and technique. What we didn't learn was how to read a room energetically, how to attune to what's unspoken, or how the imprints from our own earliest moments in life shape the way we hold space for others.
Because here's what most helping professionals were never told: your birth experience left a mark. The way you came into the world — whether it felt safe or frightening, welcome or complicated created a template. And that template quietly shows up in how you hold space, how you respond under pressure, and where you get stuck with the people you are trying to help.
Elder Myrna Martin has spent 40 years working at the intersection of birth psychology, somatic healing, and relational presence. She is no longer running a full practice — but the wisdom she carries is irreplaceable. This is why Thrive exists: so that knowledge this deep doesn't disappear. So that the next generation of helping professionals can learn directly from the Elders who lived it.
Each month, Myrna guides practitioners, facilitators, therapists, teachers, and group leaders beneath technique and into the relational field itself — the invisible, somatic, deeply intelligent space between people that determines whether real healing can happen.
What you'll experience
- Learn to attune to the energetic and somatic field of a group
- Understand why people can't feel safe—and what's actually required to create safety
- Explore how birth psychology and early attachment shape how we all respond to environments (100% of the time)
- Practice reading beneath behavior: what's really happening in the nervous system
- Examine your own early imprints and how they show up in the way you hold space
- Develop the capacity to be with people in ways that allow transformation, not just teach content
How to prepare
What you'll need
Frequency
Monthly
Who has access
Helping professionals. First class free
