Does every child have the capacity to get significantly better at managing their emotions?

Is your child behaving aggressively?
Is your child pushing all your red buttons?
Are you feeling afraid and disempowered?
Are you getting sucked into spirals of escalation?

At ‘learn NVR’, we deliver proven techniques to stay calm and respond to your child’s provocations in ways that benefit you and your child.

Our secret? Non-Violent Resistance

We do this by using Non-Violent Resistance (NVR), founded by Professor Haim Omer. NVR is internationally recognised as a highly successful approach, designed to help parents and caregivers reduce challenging behaviours 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

Our parenting course will enable you to

Develop a loving relationship with your child
Regain your authority and effectively set limits
De-escalate situations and avoid power struggles
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.
De-escalation: NVR helps parents to interrupt the cycle of conflict and aggression.
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 the caregivers are not alone, and that they (the child) also belong.
Reconciliation and repair: NVR seeks to maintain and repair the parent child relationship. Restoring trust and connection is essential in bringing about change.

Our Experts

Prof Haim Omer

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. Listen to 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. Listen to 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 behaviour that often comes with it. Listen to this 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 behaviour 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 behaviour. 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 utilise 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.

Universally 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.

Testimonials

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

NVR helped us regain our confidence and footing. We felt we were drowning before starting NVR. We now have effective tools to deal with the issues at hand. NVR empowers the parents, who are ultimately in the best position to help and love the child. We found this refreshing compared to the many child therapy options out there - none of which worked in our case. Highly recommend!

David and Sally Hollingworth – London

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 – Manchester

The ‘Learn NVR’ course has given me the tools, skills and confidence to handle what is a very difficult situation. I have gained a new perspective on parenting in which I have been able to focus on repair rather than my hopelessness and my child’s aggression. I have made breakthroughs in my relationship with my child and learned how to nurture the small steps of progress which in turn has resulted in my child being better able to control his aggression.

Andy Sanders – London

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

Transform your approach to parenting

Our course aims to help you shift from feeling overwhelmed, guilty, and helpless to gaining understanding, compassion, and confidence.

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Join today in our NVR parenting course and start your journey towards effective and empathetic parenting.