Ongoing NVR Supervision Group (4 monthly 1/2 day sessions) For all professionals in Health, Social Care or Education using NVR in their own practice, these ongoing supervision groups are facilitated by the UK’s most experienced practitioner of Non Violent Resistance, Peter Jakob. By presenting your own cases, and contributing to the process of colleagues, you will be able to become more confident and skilled in the application of this important approach. Using the Reflecting Team methodology, each group provides continuous feed-back on your work in a continuous process over four months: NVR Sup/A:  12th March/2nd April/14th May/2nd July 2007 NVR Sup/B:  25th June/10th September/1st October/3rd December 2007

Non Violent Resistance
Advanced (2-day) Non Violent Resistance training units

NVR 3A: NVR in multi-stressed and traumatised families
This advanced course enables you to address the specific therapeutic needs of parents who have experienced often lifelong violence or abuse, mental health or substance misuse problems, and who have been re-traumatised by their child’s aggressive behaviour. You will learn to help parents overcome symptoms of PTSD and other effects of previous trauma, by integrating trauma-focussed techniques in the intervention. Special attention is paid to effective support for socially isolated parents who are struggling with social deprivation and high levels of neighbourhood aggression. We recommend combining NVR 3A with training in Resource Based Trauma Therapy (RBTT 1-4); this enables using NVR with clients who have experienced very serious and prolonged trauma, as is often the case with families who have had a long history of Social Services involvement.

Peter Jakob: 23rd/24th April 2007

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NVR 3B: NVR for Looked After Children
Non Violent Resistance can be used effectively to support foster carers to overcome the controlling, aggressive behaviour of children in their care. Ideal for LAC psychologists or other CAMHS professionals specialising in Looked After Children, this course enables you to provide effective interventions which can prevent foster placement breakdown, support foster placements for children who have been in residential care or even secure accommodation, and where viable bring parents and foster carers together to effectively facilitate a young person’s transition back into their family.

Peter Jakob: 21st/22nd May 2007

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NVR 3C: NVR in Education
Behaviour problems have become a major source of classroom disruption, serious stress in teachers, and a frequent reason for pupil exclusion. Non Violent Resistance has been used successfully in schools to deal with aggressive and controlling behaviour in the classroom, bullying and other behavioural difficulties. It enables teachers to develop a support network within the school, and bridge the gap to the young person’s family. Especially suited for educational psychologists and behaviour support specialists, this essential course teaches you to apply the principles of NVR within the school environment in ways that fit the special requirements of the Education system. You will learn to develop specific interventions within schools to reduce aggressive behaviour in individuals or groups of pupils.

Floriana Reinikis: 25th/26th October 2007

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Collaborative Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
2-day Collaborative Parent-Child Interaction Therapy units

PCIT 1: Introduction to Collaborative Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
Combining solution oriented and behavioural ways of working, this form of parent-child interaction therapy can enable parents to rapidly develop secure attachment, whilst gaining a strong sense of personal agency by remaining in charge of the process. Suitable for Family Support staff, whose remit is to help parents develop good enough parenting, so they are enabled keep their child in their own care. Also suitable for psychologists, therapists, nurses in CAMHS and others, who want to integrate this intervention in their therapeutic assessment of parents’ ability to change within a child’s time-scale. You will learn to use video feed-back of real life interaction between parents, helping them realise their inherent ability to bond successfully, even when children have been removed in the past.

Mary Newman 28th/29th June 2007

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PCIT 2: Casework in Collaborative Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
Builds on Introduction module. Especially suited for psychologists, therapists, nurses and social workers in Family Support, who are involved in the assessment process. You will learn to use Collaborative PCIT as part of a time-limited therapeutic assessment process. This therapeutic assessment will enable you to build on parents’ strengths and resources, and combine Collaborative PCIT with your trauma-focussed work. We recommend this unit to be taken in conjunction with RBTT training.

Mary Newman 6th/7th September 2007

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Resource Based Trauma Therapy

RBTT has been developed by Peter Jakob and Mary Newman for individuals and families who are challenged by multiple stressors, and have experienced often extreme and enduring trauma, such as decades of sexual abuse, child physical abuse and domestic violence. This brief therapy approach combines elements from Solution Focussed Therapy, Solution Oriented Therapy, Narrative Therapy, CBT and Ericsonian Therapy, using effective techniques that alleviate traumatic experience on the individual and systemic levels.

The modular courses build on one another. Training in RBTT is suitable for psychologists, counsellors, therapists, nurses and other qualified professionals, whose clients’ needs require them to work in trauma-focussed ways – and who would like to feel competent in more optimistic ways of going about it.

Combined with Collaborative Parent Child Interaction Therapy, RBTT enables professionals to carry out therapeutic assessment of parents’ ability to change within their child’s time scale. In conjunction with NVR, RBTT can effectively help parents who are being re-traumatised by their child’s aggressive behaviour resist the violence while overcoming post-traumatic stress.

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Modular course in RBTT - 2-day training units
RBTT 1: PTSD and Trauma Cascade
The course demonstrates, how trauma affects not only an individual, but also has adverse effects on significant others and family relationships. You will learn to identify areas for intervention within the family system to help both the family as a whole, and the originally traumatised individual recover more rapidly.

Peter Jakob: 5^th/6^th February 2007

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RBTT 2: Trauma resolution - individual level work
‘When all you have is a hammer, pretty much everything looks like a nail’. This unit delivers an entire toolbox full of direct, trauma-focussed methods. Beyond method, you will learn to identify and utilise your client’s internal resources and strengths.

Mary Newman: 31^st May/1^st June 2007

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RBTT 3: Trauma resolution - systemic level work
Learn to utilise interpersonal relationships as a resource for recovery. You may even have some fun learning how to craft interactive interventions together with your clients – just imagine the Scary Night Monsters getting stuck in the special monster-trapping-paint that Johnny and his mum have redecorated his room with - how they squeal and wish they’d left him alone!

Peter Jakob: 8^th/9^th October 2007

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RBTT 4: Self of the therapist, team support and prevention of vicarious trauma
Trauma leads to isolation and fragmentation, both psychologically and socially. This final unit focuses on integrating teams and services, to support therapeutic staff support their clients, and the integration of the therapist’s self.
Mary Newman: 1^st/2^nd November 2007