Online NVR Parent Groups & Seminars

About

PartnershipProjects are able to offer a bespoke range of Online Parent Groups and Online Parent Seminars that can meet the needs of different organisations and which can be adapted in response to a range of practical and clinical factors.

We can take the lead in facilitating groups while working alongside existing practitioners to create a co-produced environment that meets the needs of the families you support. Your organisation’s needs and objectives are our priority. We will provide a written proposal with full costs and agreed delivery structure. We will also measure the impact of our work using the Parental Presence Outcome Star.

Sessions are designed to support parents / caregivers who have little or no knowledge of Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) and who are experiencing low-level* challenging behaviour from a child or young person in their care.

The groups will cover the core principles of NVR and New Authority including:

• To think about escalation patterns and the logic of control; exploring ways to de-escalate including non-verbal communication and prioritising behaviours.
• To raise parental presence; the idea of not giving in and not giving up, creating a sense of belonging and safety for the young person and the family.
• To resist harm and to carry out peaceful protest in response to significant incidents of harmful and destructive behaviour
• To build a caring community around each individual family; developing a support network of other adults who show care and support the parents / caregivers as they embed the approach.
• To reconcile and repair relationships with young people; developing reconciliation/ relational gestures and ways of making amends.

Parents / Carers will be encouraged to become aware of their own strengths and values. They will be asked to think about the way in which they respond to their child and how they might change their responses in order to create a calmer more compassionate relationship.

Contact us for a FREE consultation, or for more information. 

NOTE:

THE PARENT GROUP SESSIONS ARE AVAILABLE FOR GROUPS OF UP TO 8 FAMILIES. WE ENCOURAGE BOTH PARENTS (if applicable) TO ATTEND FULLY.

Parent Groups can be commissioned by a range of different services including Local Authorities, Adoption Agencies, Schools etc.

low-level* = The family are living together, there are support systems to access, the harmful behaviour isn’t at a level whereby the Police are involved, and the YP is at high levels of risk. 

Review:

We attended the NVR coaching (2024/25), it was an unknown of what to expect, we shared the training online with 6 other families. To start with we wondered what it could do for us, having a physical and verbal abuse child. PartnershipsProjects delivered the training, over a 10 week course, 2 hours per week, the project team were informal, friendly, honest and non judgemental throughout the course.

What did we learn? That we were not alone, it’s not just about the child but the whole family, we as parents were finally considered to be just as important! We did role play, which isn’t something we looked forward to but actually it was really helpful, it helped self reflection, and was was good to practice techniques in a very safe place. Sarah in particularly was very constructive and gave feedback on our style of how we communicated to our children, including body language.

I would recommend this training for a number of reasons:
1) we met others going through a horrible experience and could see it wasn’t just us!
2) we saw the empowerment it gave to other members of our group to say no to a child
3) we set up a WhatsApp group (amongst parents only) where we could talk to one another when having a bad or good day to support each other, a little humour goes a long ways when dealing with our daily lives
4) it showed us techniques about what’s important and when to have a fight or not ( baskets)
5) most importantly, I saw a change in us, and others on the course, it focuses on self care, changing in priorities of what is really important, knowing know when to challenge yourself in what really matters for a happier home!

I must say, it was really important both partners participate as you discuss this off line and it would be hard to do this with only one, and our group showed the benefit of where there was both partners against just the one, as we felt this was a more supportive approach and led to better outcomes.

Review:

Many thanks again for the course. I have felt much more relaxed in my parenting and feel like I am slowly able to find again that sense of being the mum I would like to be. That is precious to me!