biography
BAASE means Bioenergetics for Academic Achievement & Self-Esteem.
I developed the BAASE curriculum based on my personal experience with Bioenergetics.
I started Bioenergetics therapy as an adult looking for ways to deal with my anxiety in many daily situations, and discovered that this anxiety was the result of suppressed emotions from my childhood. Bioenergetics techniques helped me to process long lost memories and buried feelings from the past that were causing me difficulties in the present, and to combat them. It was then that I began thinking about developing a Bioenergetics program to be taught to children in school, to help them learn, early in life, ways to validate their feelings and express them safely and constructively. I believe these abilities are essential to a strong emotional foundation and to finding the ability to concentrate every child needs to succeed, academically and socially.
My desire to implement Bioenergetics for young students led me first to pursue a Master’s degree in Human Services. Finding myself in an academic environment, several years after finishing college and while working, I had to face unexpected anxiety about test taking and presentations I didn’t expect. It was an obstacle I was able to overcome thanks to Bioenergetics. I realized that blocking me were, again, past unexpressed emotions, in particular negative feedback I had received about my abilities in school during my childhood and adolescence. I applied Bioenergetics' grounding exercises to fight back doubts about my ability to deal with the graduate school workload. Bioenergetics' “owning anger” and “self-validation” exercises allowed me to face pessimistic feelings and counter them with realistic praises of my abilities. I was able to concentrate and do my work more peacefully, efficiently and effectively. By the time I achieved my degree, I was more motivated than ever about implementing Bioenergetics and working with young people.
We all want to cultivate new ideas, positive attitudes and thinking. But, these good seeds can’t grow in a ground that’s stony with emotional stress, anger, fear, sadness and doubt. Through BAASE we can release the stressful feelings and let our minds be a receptive and fertile ground, where positive thoughts can grow and flourish.
I created the BAASE curriculum to offer children the opportunity to learn how to acknowledge, validate and express their emotions in a safe school environment. If they can learn these methods at a critical developmental stage, not only will they likely be calmer and better able to concentrate in school, but also bring the benefits of good emotional health into other areas of their life’s journey.
Kristin A. Chubbuck M.S.
Founder and CEO