CONNECTION to CONFIDENCE: NVR Level 2

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NVR Level 2 - Advanced Applied NVR Practitioner Training

This advanced Level 2 training is designed for practitioners who have completed Level 1 NVR training and are ready to deepen their confidence in applying NVR across complex family, care, education, and clinical settings.

The focus of this training is applied NVR practice, moving beyond the foundations into the skills needed to coach parents and carers, facilitate NVR-informed parent groups, and adapt the model for families and systems where distress, risk, violence, trauma, neurodiversity, and entrenched patterns of escalation are present.

Participants will strengthen their ability to use NVR with multi-stressed families, including families impacted by trauma, abuse, anxiety, self-isolation, neurodiversity, learning difficulties, eating disorders, and adult-entrenched dependency. The training will also explore the application of NVR in residential care, inpatient settings, and other systems supporting young people presenting with aggression, violence, refusal, withdrawal, or high-risk behaviours.

A strong emphasis will be placed on practical skill development, including parent coaching, group facilitation, managing resistance and shame in groups, maintaining practitioner presence, strengthening support networks, and helping parents and carers move from escalation, helplessness, or fear into calm, connected, persistent action.

Participants who complete Level 2 will be developing the knowledge and applied skills to provide NVR coaching to parents and carers in more complex presentations, support NVR-informed group work, and continue toward further accreditation pathways, including the option to proceed to Level 3.

Key areas covered include:

• Advanced application of NVR principles in complex family systems
• Coaching parents and carers where violence, aggression, fear, or helplessness are present
• Running NVR-informed parent and carer groups, including group process and facilitation skills
• Adapting NVR for trauma, neurodiversity, anxiety, withdrawal, and entrenched dependency
• Applying NVR in residential care, inpatient, school, and multi-agency settings
• Supporting practitioners to maintain calm presence, connection, and persistence under pressure
• Strengthening supporter networks and systemic responses around families and young people

Suitable for practitioners who have completed Level 1 NVR training and are working with parents, carers, families, schools, residential care teams, inpatient services, or systems supporting young people with high-level distress, aggression, violence, avoidance, or complex behavioural presentations.

Presenter: Tamar Sloan is a registered psychologist and one of Australia’s most highly qualified Relational Presence (Non-Violent Resistance) practitioners, bringing extensive experience in both education and community settings. She’s both a private practitioner and supports families in government services. By combining evidence-based principles with real-world application, she focuses on empowering families, educators, and fellow professionals to confidently address challenging behaviours. Tamar’s compassionate, interactive, and engaging style ensures participants gain practical skills that foster meaningful, lasting change for families in their care.

Audience: for mental health, education and other professionals that apply behavioural/developmental/neuro-science and systemic thinking to their practice.

Mental Health Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Child Protection and Disability Workers, Guidance Officers, Speech and Language Therapists, Residential Care Workers and Foster Support Workers, Youth Justice, and all other mental health professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.  

Education Professionals: Professionals who work with children or youth including, but not limited to K–12 Principles, Teachers, School Counsellors, School Paraprofessionals and all other professionals who support behavioural challenges and complex learning needs.