Non-Violence Resistance

What is NVR?

The NVR course aims to offer a series of tools and techniques to support parents and carers of children / young people who display challenging attitudes and behaviours. Parents are guided through a set of core principles based on the idea of carefully planned actions to help support the management of challenging behaviour. As parents gain greater confidence and self-control, this enables difficult issues to be addressed in an effective manner through a process of increasing parental presence. As parental presence grows, so does the rebuilding of the loving parent-child relationship.

Core principles:

Central ideas to NVR include:

• ‘Strike when the iron is cold’ (addressing difficult issues at neutral times using the principle of planned actions, as well as delayed actions, where possible);
• ‘Connection before Correction’ (learning how to use a set of effective connecting tools, followed by a set of correcting / resisting tools);
• ‘Two steps forward, one step back’ (working with a process of change which often takes place in an uneven pattern, with slow steady progress). We call this the ‘trickle’ approach as opposed to a ‘magic wand’ approach.