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“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...
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- Oct 11, 2018
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How lucky are we?!
How lucky are we?! Dr Karen Treisman, Mathew Portell (Principal of Fall-Hamilton Elementary in Nashville), KPJR Films’ Resilience...
- Oct 10, 2018
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Mathew Portell on transitioning to trauma-informed practices
Earlier this year Edutopia published, “An Inside Look at Trauma-Informed Practices” about Fall-Hamilton Elementary School...
- Oct 9, 2018
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Dr Karen Treisman on the importance of relationships
In her 2017 TEDx talk, Dr Treisman talks about the importance of forging good, healthy relationships and society-wide systems when it...
- Oct 7, 2018
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Towards Trauma-informed Practice in Northamptonshire
We are very excited to officially announce NVRnorthampton’s 2-day immersive Conference: Towards Trauma-Informed Practice on the 23rd &...
- Jul 12, 2018
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Making things worse
“Kids with a trauma history do not need more punishment, and quite frankly they don’t need more stickers.” - Dr Ross W Greene NVR...
- Jul 4, 2018
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Biologically essential
Relationships with supportive, caring adults as early in life as possible, can prevent or reverse the damaging effects of toxic stress....
- Jun 27, 2018
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A vulnerable choice
“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...
- Jun 26, 2018
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Healing will require a community approach
For children who have been severely psychologically damaged in contexts where the community did not (or could not) protect them, healing...
- Jun 22, 2018
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Discipline means to teach
“But where classroom discipline is concerned...a punitive climate isn’t in anyone’s interest..., it strains the fabric of the...
- Jun 21, 2018
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Relationships are the agents of change
“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...
- Jun 19, 2018
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Messages
“Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated.” - Michele Borba “Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful,...
- Jun 18, 2018
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Do you see me?
“Everyday in a hundred small ways, children ask, ‘Do you see me?’, ‘Do you hear me?’, ‘Do I matter?’ Their behaviour often reflects our...
- Jun 16, 2018
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Rewards and consequences
“...most challenging kids already want to behave the right way. They don’t need us to continue giving them stickers, depriving them of...
- Jun 16, 2018
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Hear what they're needing
The objective... “is not to change people & their behaviour in order to get our way; it is to establish relationships based on honesty &...
- Jun 12, 2018
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Repair relationships
Just spotted this great quote from from Dave Melnick via the Ana Grace Project at the NM Symposium 2018 #DaveMelnick #Relationships...
- Jun 10, 2018
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Hurt people
“Anger is just loud hurt, sadness and unmet needs.” - Suzi Lula #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV#DevelopmentalTrauma #Adoption#FosterCare...
- Jun 9, 2018
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Be there
“The key to fostering a connection in the face of a ‘no’ is always hearing ‘yes’ to something else.” - Marshall B Rosenberg...
- Jun 8, 2018
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Heroes
“Every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.” - Josh Shipp #ChallengingBehaviour #DevelopmentalTrauma #ACEs...
- Jun 8, 2018
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Discipline is helping
“Punishment & reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the...
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