Who is the conference for?
This conference is for parents and for professionals - many of whom are also parents. ​Click on the below categories to learn how it can benefit you:
Discover NVR
The NonViolent Resistance Therapy and Practice (NVR) approach supports parents and other caregivers as they struggle to cope with children’s chronic defiance, aggression, anxiety, self-harm, addictions, neurodiversity, and mental health challenges.  ​Whether you are a parent, a mental health professional, or both, join our conference to discover how NVR`s everyday practices can make a real-life difference for yourself, your family, your child, or your clients. Speakers include leaders in the field such as Dr. Haim Omer, Dr. Eli Lebowitz, Dr. Peter Jakob, Dr. Uri Weinblatt, and Dan Dulberger. As an evidence-based, caregiver-centered approach, NVR allows parents to break through barriers of shame, guilt, despair and social isolation to re-discover their agency and start mattering again to their children. The more empowered Parents become, the better they can help their troubled children. ​NVR puts caregivers at the center of its attention, in an age where parents and families face ever growing burdens of responsibility, with ever-diminishing social authority.
Program Overview
The conference offers two main knowledge streams: An innovation stream and a parenting experience stream.
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Innovation stream
The innovation stream Is meant for parents, for professionals and for professionals who are parents. It offers keynote presentations, plenary sessions and workshop by internationally recognized innovators in the field of NVR therapy and practice, on the following NVR-related topics:
Clinical track
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SPACE and Anxiety
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NVR and child aggression
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NVR, attachment and trauma
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NVR and Eating Disorders
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NVR and Addictions Work
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FASD, Neurodiversity and NVR
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NVR and suicidal behaviors
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NVR and Contactivity work with children who avoid
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NVR and non-emerging adulthood, entrenched dependence and failure to launch
Settings and methods track
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Neuro-de-escalation
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NVR work facing institutions and agencies
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NVR in Group Homes and Residential Centers
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Implementing NVR into your clinical practice
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NVR in group work
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Use of guided imagination in NVR
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Community outreach for socially withdrawn young people and their families
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NVR Child and Parent work together
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NVR in in-patient settings
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NVR in the education system
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Implementing NVR in a community program
Presenters:
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Christoff Goetl, Dan Dulberger, Michaela Fried, Eli Lebowitz, Haim Omer, Jill Lubienski, Kerry Shoesmith, Lital Mellinger, Martin Lemme, Mary-Jo Land, Maude Champagne, Michaela Fried, Nevo Pick, Ohad Nahum, Or Hareven, Peter Jakob, Shila Desai, Tanya Eichler, Uri Berger, Uri Weinblatt, Willem Beckers
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Parenting experience stream
Intended mainly for parents, this stream offers parents a choice of six non-parallel workshops or nine hours of moderated learning, inspiration, and support, in relation to the topics presented at the innovation stream. Parents attending these sessions will have an opportunity to share their conference experiences, speak with leading NVR practitioners, learn about NVR as an approach to changing the parental state of mind, use NVR tools preventively, and using social support to achieve parenting goals.
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Moderators
Dr. Peter Jakob, Mary-Jo Land, Dan Dulberger.
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