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The NVRA Global Itinerary
We will have offerings from speakers & presenters around the world! More to be announced soon!
Embattled Families: Responding to Child to Parent Violence and Abuse using Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) by Dr. Tara Kelly
About the Presenter:
Dr Tara Kelly has been working with children and families in the area of Family Support for more than thirty years with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in Ireland. Tara is the current chair of NVR Ireland. She uses NVR extensively in her work with children and families. An accredited NVR practitioner and trainer, Tara has trained hundreds of practitioners in NVR. She manages a team of Senior Social Work practitioners and Social Care Leaders who also use NVR extensively. She hosts a practitioners’ network and provides workshops, seminars and talks for parents and practitioners.
About the Offering:
This presentation is based on my PhD, conducted in Ireland, which explored 23 parents' experiences of Child to Parent Violence and Abuse (CPVA) and NVR as a response. The intention is to give voice to those parents in relation to their lived experiences of CPVA and their views on the possibilities - and limitations - of NVR. How parents conceptualise CPVA will be considered. The presentation will highlight what these parents believe to be the most useful elements of NVR. I intend to share my insights in to how NVR principles fit with parents of neurodiverse children and will conclude that we should not be distracted by the symptoms but, in the words of Haim Omer, use NVR as a treatment for the interactions between parent and child. I intend to share the successes of my NVR work with these parents but also to identify where - and possibly why - NVR was not successful. The matter of bi-directional violence in these cases will be explored.