NVR – Non-Violent Resistance
NVR supports parents and carers in working with escalating patterns and unwanted behaviours in children and young people. It is a structural approach that aims to be empowering for families and is delivered collaboratively using tools, techniques and coaching.
Even with love, hard work, and the best intentions, families can sometimes slip into difficult patterns of behaviour without knowing how to break the pattern. Parents and carers may feel as though they are losing control, becoming disconnected, or even shut out from their child’s world. Over time, this can lead carers to feelings of frustration, helplessness, and isolation.
With NVR input, parents are guided through a set of core tools to help support them in their management of destructive, aggressive, controlling or risk-taking behaviours in their child. NVR aims to offer parents and carers a greater confidence in their own self-control, enabling difficult issues to be addressed systematically and supportively over time.
NVR helps to address behaviours such as:
- Aggression and anger
- Alcohol and drug use
- Eating disorders
- Disruptive and defiant behaviours
- Sibling arguments
- Anxiety behaviours
NVR helps to:
- Identifying triggers in parents
- Helping parents to feel empowered and supported
- Feel unified in a shared approach
- Re-building closeness in the parent child relationship
Highly Anxious Children
The SPACE Programme (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) is an aspect of NVR and is designed to help parents reduce their own accommodating behaviour in the context of a child’s anxiety. This approach supports parents to cope with the child’s distress or resistance, while maintaining a supportive stance towards them. It explicitly focuses on changing parent responses to the child’s anxious states, gradually withdrawing the accommodating behaviours on which the child has come to rely. (Eli R. Lebowitz & Haim Omer)
NVR is delivered with families as part of family therapy, or as a 3 month course alongside other parents. Please ask for further details about courses.
