Can your child get better at managing their emotions?
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Is your child behaving aggressively?
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Is your child pushing all your red buttons?
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Are you helpless?
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Are you getting sucked into spirals of escalation?​
NVR is a set of tested techniques to stay calm and respond to your child’s behavior in ways that benefit you and your child
Our Secret? Non-Violent Resist
We do this by using Non-Violent Resistance (NVR), founded by Professor Haim Omer. NVR is internationally recognized as a highly successful approach, designed to help parents and caregivers reduce challenging behaviors in children. NVR is rooted in the principles of non-violence, originally inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., and adapted by Haim Omer for parenting situations.
“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children”
Mahatma Gandhi
The parenting course will help you to
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Strengthen your loving relationship with your child
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Regain your authority and effectively set limits
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De-escalate situations and avoid power struggles
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Create a supportive network around yourself and your child
Core Principles of NVR
Non-Violence as a philosophy
NVR encourages parents to resist harmful behaviours in non-harmful ways.
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De-escalation
NVR helps parents to interrupt the cycle of conflict and aggression.
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Strengthening parental presence
NVR helps parents bolster their presence and demonstrate authority through calm, clear boundaries rather than fear or control.
Support network
NVR uses a supportive network, including extended family, friends, and community members to reinforce the child’s feeling that their parents are not alone, and that they (the child) also belong.
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Reconciliation and repair
NVR seeks to maintain and repair the parent child relationship. Restoring trust and connection is essential in bringing about change.
Learn from
Prof. Haim Omer
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Haim Omer is the founder of NVR. Some years before he developed the approach, he learned through his own experiences the power of parental presence. In his work with families in the 1990s he found that when he told parents about this presence and what it means, they became more present right there and then in the room. Watch this trailer of Haim explaining this experience.
Dr. Peter Jakob
With a background in social work, Dr Peter Jakob has worked as Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist in both CAMHS and Adult Mental Health for over 40 years, specialising in children and families involved with child protection, trauma or other difficulties such as neurodivergence. Peter introduced Nonviolent Resistance therapy and practice (NVR) to the UK. Watch this trailer of Peter speaking about the need that led him to bring NVR to the UK.
Dr. Joanna North
Joanna North has been working with children in foster care and adoptive families for over 20 years. A decade ago, she opened a children’s home. She found that violence was turning many people away from the caring profession. She has since brought NVR into her practice to help adoptive and foster parents take on their parenting role and develop the relationship that the child needs whilst surviving the very challenging behavior that often comes with it. Watch the trailer of Joanna talking about how she uses NVR with the families she works with.
Direct expert guidance​
Learn directly from Haim Omer and benefit from his vast experience as the international founder of NVR. Our methods are grounded in extensive research and countless studies have shown that NVR brings about positive results in reducing aggressive and destructive behavior in children.
Clear and practical guidance​
You will gain simple, practical, easy to apply NVR techniques, with detailed, step-by-step instructions that make handling difficult situations easier. Within just a few weeks you will be able to begin to apply these techniques to improve your parental position. Our techniques are designed for parents who are flesh and blood, not for superhumans. You will learn through interactive real-life examples that illustrate how NVR can be applied to a variety of challenging situations.
Support and validation
We understand how emotionally draining it can be to navigate challenging behavior. Our nonjudgmental courses are designed to validate your experiences while providing you with the tools you need to reset your situation.
Online and on your schedule
Our courses are entirely online, allowing you to learn at your own pace and on your own schedule. Purchase the course and work through the materials independently, with 6-months access to the course content.
Recommended support
While our course is designed to be completed independently, we highly recommend that you utilize the service of an NVR coach alongside the course. They can provide personalised insights and help you apply the strategies effectively in your unique situation.
Proven techniques
Our techniques have proven to be successful across a range of different countries and cultures. Our approach is practiced in the UK, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Israel, Denmark, The Netherlands, France, and Gaza amongst other countries.
This course works. It makes sense. It is a very logical, practical course which has been shown to be effective. It is a course that both parents can work through together. We are finding it so effective that we are not just using it for the child we started it for; we are using it as a general parenting approach for all of our children.
-Gary and Amy Howarth
The ‘Learn NVR’ course has given me the tools to have calm and honest conversations with my 15-year-old autistic teenager. I have learned skills to manage tense situations without unwanted escalations and without him feeling attacked. The course has a lot of focus on repairing and rebuilding the connection with your child. My child feels loved and I feel like I are parenting positively.
- Deborah Green – Exeter
The response I get from parents who have engaged in NVR is striking. They report meaningful change in their family life and significantly reduced distress, both in themselves and their children. I strongly recommend NVR as an intervention for those struggling with highly intense emotions or physical and verbal conflict in a family unit.
- Dr Anthony Crabb – Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Clinical Director at Held Health, Exeter
