So It Will Change The Way You Parent, But What Is It? Human Design Defined

Human design is the experience of living life with awareness of the ways you take in what’s called conditioning from the collective in the form of narratives and stories stored within the body.  It is a tool with which your awareness of what is yours and what is not yours can be discerned. 

Many call human design an experiment.  I like to think of it as a practice – a practice that starts with the mind that can learn to be aware of what’s coming up from the body and then a practice of identifying, learning from and releasing from your body that which does not feel authentic or true to your personal experience of reality.  We learn how to let go of what is not ours within the body through human design.  We learn to categorize what is happening within our internal experience by learning the 9 different energy centers that human design offers to us.  Through each center, we either emit or take in different qualities of energy.  Using what’s called your inner authority and strategy you are called to filter this information in a specific way.  

Each day in the human design practice/experiment is an opportunity to know yourself better and to know not only the impact others have on you but how you impact others as well.  Human design is a philosophical and theoretical offering that seeks to show us how we relate to one another, how we can better know ourselves and how we can better know what is not ourselves.  

Human design can equip us to take up space in a way that is authentic to ourselves in a very true and powerful way.  It looks beyond gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and neurodivergence to help us get a truly differentiated look at who we are.  There is no tendency to pathologize within human design.  It seeks to offer deeper origins of the relationship between the mind and body in ways that empower and elucidate.  

So when it comes to parenting, armed with the knowledge that is your child’s design, you will have ample tools and perspectives with which to parent them and help create a life for them that is aligned with their authentic selves.  Knowing your child’s differentiation and the way they relate to others early on in their life will help to lay the foundations of what is called conditioning.  Being conditioned can happen from taking in homogenized norms and standards from family, peers, and our culture at large.  Helping your child to use their unique strategy and authority to filter out what does not resonate with their design, in their bodies, will give them an empowering tool to help take in only the conditioning that is aligned for them.

Some wise words from my teacher Kelsey Rose Tortorice, “Lastly and most importantly, trust your body’s ability to resonate, filter, regulate, place, and integrate (or not) all of this information in its own way, its own time, its own authority.”