Nonviolent Resistance (NVR) is a powerful yet gentle, ethically sound philosophy and skill set designed to stop violent, aggressive, controlling and destructive behaviours in children and young people. The NVR approach can disrupt patterns of response from harming others to self-injury, spanning coercive domestic abuse (child-to-parent violence and abuse: CPVA), suicidality, and various anxiety-related behaviours, such as eating disorders, parental alienation, and low school attendance.

 

Nonviolent resistance enables adults to rebuild connections with their young charges whilst establishing a credible and strong position of supported authority. It remains effective even when the young person refuses to cooperate.

 

NVR can be adapted to any age group, even adult child-to-parent dynamics (from adult entitled dependence to estrangement/cut-off).

 

This course is designed for professionals supporting clients in a parental or ‘loco parentis’ role (for example, parenting couples, lone parents, kinship carers, special guardians, adopters, foster carers or residential home staff).

 

You might be, for example, a - 

• Psychologist 

• Counsellor 

• Family Therapist

• Social Worker

• Children’s Home Support Worker.

• Youth Justice Worker

• Social Prescriber

• Probation Officer 

• Teacher

• Child Guardian/Cafcass worker

• Family Lawyer or Liaison Officer

• Housing Officer

• Mental Health Worker

• Advocate

• Case Worker/Advisor

• LSA/TA

• SENCO

• Family Support Worker

 

When you, and the childraisers you support, conclude that traditional reward-and-punishment, or behaviour modification approaches (from ‘naughty step’ all the way to court-ordered punitive measures) may never be effective with their child, NVR can offer a practical and effective alternative; placing proven systemic intervention strategies into the hands of the community around the child, for lasting change.

 

NVR training will equip you to offer response-ability where there had seemed to be only helplessness and hopelessness.

 

Our Foundation Level training (Level 1) is accredited by NVR UK and designed for professionals who want to bring this transformative approach into their practice.  Delivered bi-weekly (6:30pm - 9:00pm BST) over 16 weeks (Sept to Dec). 

 

On successful completion of this course, you will be an NVR Informed Practitioner (certified by NVR UK) able to:-

• Utilise the strategies you’ll have learnt in your everyday client work practice

• Assist an accredited NVR group facilitator in running NVR Parent Groups under NVR Supervision

• Gain entry to NVR Advanced Level 2 training

• Gain access to a range of short, specialised, supplementary NVR trainings being offered by various providers.

 

Our Foundation Level Training continues to be very popular with professionals from across the UK and beyond. If you'd like to join our next cohort, please follow the link below to secure your place on our September 2025 training.