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May 12, 20181 min read
Online Booking
We’re now taking online bookings for our 1-day Introduction to NVR Workshop for anyone who lives or works with violent & destructive...
May 7, 20181 min read
Behaviour
All behaviour is a form of communication and “At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.” - Marshall B Rosenberg...
May 6, 20181 min read
1 day Introduction to NVR Workshop
1-day Introduction to Nonviolent Resistance Workshop (4th Aug 2018) for anyone who lives/ works with violent & destructive young people...
Apr 29, 20181 min read
No Bad Kids
“Thinking of your child as 'behaving badly' disposes you to think of punishment. Thinking of your child as 'struggling to handle...
Apr 19, 20181 min read
Reframe the Behaviour
“See a child differently, see a different child.” - Stuart Shanker “Treating behaviour like misbehaviour means we punish. Treating...
Apr 18, 20181 min read
Everyone has a Story
#ChallengingBehaviour #ExtremeBehaviour #Schools #AnnetteBreaux
Apr 15, 20181 min read
Safety Blanket
The principles of Nonviolent Resistance are simple, so all involved parties (extended family and friends, teachers, police officers,...
Apr 8, 20181 min read
Self Regulation Support for Violent Children
We must come up with community responses that support violent children in developing their self regulation - even if one-to-one were...
Feb 22, 20181 min read
The problem is the problem
Reward & punishment based approaches do not work for all children/ teenagers. Nonviolent Resistance is an ethically-sound alternative...
Feb 21, 20181 min read
Conflict resolution
#ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CompassionateAction #NonviolentResistance #NVR #ChildtoParentViolence #CPVA #APVA #ViolentChild...
Feb 17, 20181 min read
Adoption and Fostering Podcast
Carrie Grant speaks to Al Coates and Scott Carson-Rennie in the latest episode of the Adoption and Fostering Podcast. She is open and...
Feb 8, 20181 min read
The child is not the problem
In dealing with a child’s extreme and challenging behaviour, “Nonviolent Resistance begins with the acknowledgement that the child is...
Feb 4, 20181 min read
Children who need the most love...
#ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA #Trauma #RussellBarkley #ChildtoParentViolence #APVA #ExtremeBehaviour #ViolentChild...
Feb 1, 20181 min read
Share your calm
#ParentalSupport #CompassionateAction #NonviolentResistance #NVR #LRKnost #CPV #CPVA #ChallengingBehaviour #ChildtoParentViolence...
Feb 1, 20181 min read
Reward and punishment
Reward-and-punishment-based approaches simply do not work for all children or teenagers. Nonviolent Resistance is an ethically-sound...
Jan 30, 20181 min read
Tantrums and power struggles
Traumatised & attachment-injured children are prone to respond to authority with anger & defiance. Reward & punishment will not work with...
Jan 29, 20181 min read
An unmet need
#TraumaInformed #CompassionateAction #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #MarshallBRosenberg #Quotes #ExtremeBehaviour #ViolentChild...
Jan 8, 20181 min read
2018 Child to Parent Violence & Aggression Survey
“For many adopted families CPVA is an issue but we are relatively small in number, beyond our circle other communities experience the...
Jan 1, 20181 min read
"The Lost Children of Trauma"
This powerful animation video, from The Open Nest, was created 3 years ago... It was produced by adopters and adoptees to raise...
Nov 22, 20171 min read
An additional £1 million announced today for the Adoption Support Fund
“Looked-after children’s needs do not disappear overnight with a successful adoption placement...” The Adoption Support Fund helps...
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