#DrDanSiegel #Development #Connection #TheAdolescentBrain #Neuroplasticity #RandomActsofKindnessFoundation

“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 remarkable malleability of the brain.” - @BDPerry (@ChildTraumaAcad) #DevelopmentalTrauma #ChildTrauma #ACEs #Connection #ConnectedChildRaising #Neuroplasticity

The 'Hand Model of the Brain' is a really easy way to explain and visualise what happens when we become disregulated... "The power of awareness can change our well-being." - Dr Dan Siegel #DrDanSiegel #HandModelOfTheBrain #FlippingYourLid #ChallengingBehaviour #Connection #Regulation

In her 2017 TEDx talk, Dr Treisman talks about the importance of forging good, healthy relationships and society-wide systems when it comes to understanding and healing trauma. ”ALL relationships ‘are the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind’... because relationships, shape who we are.” - Dr Karen Treisman We are so excited that Karen will be joining us in January for Towards Trauma- Informed Practice in Northamptonshire - for more info and tickets, click

‪“Kids with a trauma history do not need more punishment, and quite frankly they don’t need more stickers.” - Dr Ross W Greene ‬ ‪ NVR can help. ‪ #RewardandPunishment #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA #APVA #DevelopmentalTrauma #ACEs #Connection #ConnectedChildRaising #RelationalRepair #StuartShanker

“See a child differently. See a different child.” - Stuart Shanker The child is not the problem - the problem is the problem.... #ChallengingBehaviour #Connection #Connectedness #ConnectedChildRaising #Reframe #RelationalRepair #InasChahboun

‪“When we can empathetically connect with what is alive in each other, we can restore any conflict peacefully.” - Marshall B Rosenberg‬ ‪ NVR can help...‬ #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA #APVA #DevelopmentalTrauma #Connection #ConnectedChildRaising #RelationalRepair #Empathy #NonviolentResistance #NVR #MarshallBRosenberg

“Some of the most important things you can communicate to a child are that feelings are ok, mistakes are fixable and there’s nothing they could do that would push you away or make you love them less.” - Kelly Bartlett #ChallengingBehaviour #Development #Connection #ConnectedChildRaising #GordonNeufeld #Relationships

We must come up with community responses that support children, exhibiting violent and destructive behaviour, in developing their self regulation - even if one-to-one were affordable, it's no solution; it says 'we expect you to be dangerous and incapable of better'. Children will become what they are told they are... NVR can help. #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA #APVA #ViolentandDestructiveYoungPeople #Connection #Connectedness #ConnectiveParenting #NVR #NonviolentResistance

“If you manipulate, coerce and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example you will need no power at all.” - William Martin #ChallengingBehaviour #DevelopmentalTrauma #ChildhoodTrauma #Connection #Connectedness #ConnectedChildRaising #Development #Relationships #RelationalRepair #LRKnost

We must come up with community responses that support violent children in developing their self regulation - even if one-to-one were affordable, it's no solution; it says 'we expect you to be dangerous and incapable of better'. Children will become what they are told they are... NVR can help. #DevelopmentalTrauma #ChildhoodTrauma #CPV #CPVA #APVA #PamLeo #Connection #Connectedness #ConnectedChildRaising #NonviolentResistance #NVR #TraumaInformed #Relationships #RelationalRepa

Relationships with supportive, caring adults as early in life as possible, can prevent or reverse the damaging effects of toxic stress. #DevelopmentalTrauma #Development #ACEs #ToxicStress #Connection #Connectedness #ConnectedChildRaising #Relationships #RelationalRepair #BruceDPerry

‪“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” - Peggy O’Mara #Development #Connection #WordsMatter #Empathy #ConnectedChildRaising

‪“Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love” - Bruce D Perry ‬ ‪ #Development #Connection #Connectedness #ConnectedChildRaising #PamLeo #RelationalRepair #DevelopmentalTrauma #BeTheOne

“Take your time to understand. Don’t just do something, be there.” - Marshall B Rosenberg ‬ ‪ NVR can help. #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA #APVA #DevelopmentalTrauma #Development #Connection #Reframe #ConnectedChildRaising #StuartShanker

“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 that knows that feeling.” - Brené Brown #DevelopmentalTrauma #Development #Connection #Connectedness #ConnectedChildRaising #Empathy #RelationalRepair #DrDanSiegel #BreneBrown #ACEs #AdverseChildhoodExperiences #ChildhoodTrauma

For children who have been severely psychologically damaged in contexts where the community did not (or could not) protect them, healing will require a community approach.‬ ‪ NVR can help. #ChallengingBehaviour #DevelopmentalTrauma #ChildhoodTrauma #CPV #CPVA #APVA #ACEs #AdverseChildhoodExperiences #FosterCare #Connection #RelationalRepair #ConnectedChildRaising #Adoption #Relationships #NVR #NonviolentResistance

“It’s easier to build strong children than repair broken men.” - Frederick Douglass #Development #Connection #Connectedness #ConnectedChildRaising #BeTheOne #RobertIngersoll #Buildthemup

‪“It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need & respond...” - Fred Rogers ‬ #DevelopmentalTrauma #ChildhoodTrauma #RelationalRepair #Connection #Connectedness #ConnectedChildRaising #FredRogers #Relationships #BeTheOne

“Our children were harmed in relationship and they will experience healing through nurturing relationships.” - Dr Karyn Purvis‬ ‪ NVR can help... ‬ ‪ #DevelopmentalTrauma #ChildhoodTrauma #Adoption #FosterCare #Connection #Connectedness #ConnectedChildRaising #RelationalRepair #FiNewood #NVR #NonviolentResistance