“You can influence & you can make a positive change in a child’s life - and in an adult’s life - all the way through because of the...

How lucky are we?! Dr Karen Treisman, Mathew Portell (Principal of Fall-Hamilton Elementary in Nashville), KPJR Films’ Resilience...

Earlier this year Edutopia published, “An Inside Look at Trauma-Informed Practices” about Fall-Hamilton Elementary School...

In her 2017 TEDx talk, Dr Treisman talks about the importance of forging good, healthy relationships and society-wide systems when it...

We are very excited to officially announce NVRnorthampton’s 2-day immersive Conference: Towards Trauma-Informed Practice on the 23rd &...

‪“Kids with a trauma history do not need more punishment, and quite frankly they don’t need more stickers.” - Dr Ross W Greene ‬ ‪ NVR...

Relationships with supportive, caring adults as early in life as possible, can prevent or reverse the damaging effects of toxic stress....

“Empathy is a choice and it’s a vulnerable choice because in order to connect with you, I have to connect with something within myself...

For children who have been severely psychologically damaged in contexts where the community did not (or could not) protect them, healing...

“But where classroom discipline is concerned...a punitive climate isn’t in anyone’s interest..., it strains the fabric of the...

“You can influence & you can make a positive change in a child’s life - & in an adult’s life - all the way through because of the...

“Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated.” - Michele Borba “Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful,...

“Everyday in a hundred small ways, ‬children ask, ‘Do you see me?’, ‘Do you hear me?’, ‘Do I matter?’ ‬Their behaviour often reflects our...

“...most challenging kids already want to behave the right way. They don’t need us to continue giving them stickers, depriving them of...

The objective... “is not to change people & their behaviour in order to get our way; it is to establish relationships based on honesty &...

Just spotted this great quote from from Dave Melnick via the Ana Grace Project at the NM Symposium 2018 #DaveMelnick #Relationships...

“Anger is just loud hurt, sadness and unmet needs.” - Suzi Lula ‪#ChallengingBehaviour #CPV#DevelopmentalTrauma #Adoption#FosterCare...

“The key to fostering a connection in the face of a ‘no’ is always hearing ‘yes’ to something else.” - Marshall B Rosenberg...

“Every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.” - Josh Shipp #ChallengingBehaviour #DevelopmentalTrauma #ACEs...

“Punishment & reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the...