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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 12, 20181 min read


Wake-up Call
Traumatised and attachment-injured children are prone to respond to authority with anger & defiance. Nonviolent Resistance can help......
Mar 28, 20181 min read


Behind Intimidating Messages
All behaviour is a form of communication and... “behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.”...
Mar 17, 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 22, 20181 min read


Conflict resolution
#ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CompassionateAction #NonviolentResistance #NVR #ChildtoParentViolence #CPVA #APVA #ViolentChild...
Feb 21, 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 17, 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 8, 20181 min read


Children who need the most love...
#ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA #Trauma #RussellBarkley #ChildtoParentViolence #APVA #ExtremeBehaviour #ViolentChild...
Feb 4, 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...
Feb 1, 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 30, 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 8, 20181 min read


The Adoption Support Fund
Adoption UK has just announced that the updated online version of the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) guide has now been published. “The ASF...
Nov 5, 20171 min read


RCPV NVR Handbook for Practitioners
We've just updated our NVR Books board on Pinterest with this RCPV NVR Handbook for Practitioners (follow the link to download a copy)....
Oct 7, 20171 min read


BBC Radio 4 - Today
Follow the link to listen to an except from BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, (14/09/2017):- 'We are in physical danger from our son'. Sadly...
Oct 7, 20171 min read


Adoption: Families in Crisis
“...what happens when the challenges the adoptive family faces become overwhelming? And is there enough support available to the families...
Sep 26, 20171 min read


“Helping parents to be the parents they want to be...”
We recently shared this Holes in the Wall blog post, please follow this link to read more... ...and you can follow our Articles of...
Sep 4, 20171 min read


Leaflet
If you know anybody living or working with violent, destructive and/ or controlling young people, please share this with them. We have an...
Sep 1, 20171 min read


What I’m doing and why...
When I contacted Vicki about publicising the course that I’ve organised on their website, The Adoption Social, she suggested that I...
Mar 16, 20165 min read
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