What is The Nurtured Heart Approach?
The Nurtured Heart Approach, created by family therapist Howard Glasser, is a powerful method designed to offer all youth, especially those challenging and intense, an opportunity to develop a new behavioural model through a series of successes.
This approach is based on the understanding that intense youth (with attention deficits, LD, mood, conduct & oppositional defiant disorders) are unconsciously seeking the emotional energy of parents and other significant adults in their lives.
Based upon the youth’s experiences, they are able to trigger & sustain bigger reactions and emotions from significant adults when they misbehave. Children and teens want to get your “emotional energy”. Parents and teachers, your relationship is the prize! Unfortunately negative behaviour gets a whole lot of your "negative energy" (i.e. facial expressions, arguing, yelling, lectures, punishment, detentions, sending students out of the classroom etc) For years parents & teachers have been applying conventional methods that fail and often worsen situations with difficult youth.
The exciting news is The Nurtured Heart Approach is a revolutionary way to facilitate success, self-esteem and greater happiness in every area of life for "ALL" youth and it works as soon as you use it. Children begin to flourish, embracing their magnificent qualities and increasing their inner wealth. Parents and teachers acquire strategies to acknowledge positive behaviours while maintaining specific structure, with a clear set of rules and guidelines.
The core of the technique is love, respect and compassion. Nurtured Heart Approach, with its highly effective success rate at home and at school, provides a 180-degree environmental and personal shift for you, your whole family, and other caregivers.
Family Interventions
Nurtured Heart Parent Workshops
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Our 6 weekly sessions, are designed to promote knowledge & application of the NH approach.
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Empowering "new" parenting techniques to energize successes.
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Downloads of "new scripts"- a nourishing vocabulary of "positivity"
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Balance of limit setting and clear, simple consequences when rules are broken.
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Transforms child's/teens negative portfolio into a positive one.
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Create successes which transforms the lives, minds and hearts of youth.
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Increase youth's inner strength, self esteem, ability to make good choices & maintain friendships
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Enhance & pazazz your parent-child connection..
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Not only will you experience successes in their children's lives, but also in you own.
Heartfelt Words In Play Groups (Youth & Parent)
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Our 8 week group format provides a safe, playful, fun, engaging, milieu.
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Youth & parents incorporate new skills through nurturing Words In Play.
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Promotes youth's inner wealth, character & value building (empathy, respect, responsible, self control, integrity)
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During Words In Play, amidst the giggles & hugs, we celebrate successes, acquire pro social skills, form new friendships, increase trust in self & others and enhance parent-child & peer connections.
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Parent easily transfer new skills to home life, expanding and creating new successes.
Nurtured Heart Approach School Wide Interventions
There is no lack of students who have dismal relationships with themselves, others and life in general. Many wonderful, good intentioned teachers state they feel ill prepared for the emotional, behavioural and regulatory difficulties they frequently encounter with intense, sensitive and needy students within their classrooms. Teachers are truly powerful influences and their relationship is the prize. All students want attention and many seek teacher's energy through negative attention.
When Nurtured Heart Approach is implemented in the classroom, negative attention seeking behaviour shifts to positive. Teachers possess the strategies and skills that strategically create actual experiences of success for "all" students within the context of their activities and relationships. The Nurtured Heart Approach is a "positivity" vocabulary recognizing first hand experiences of success and /or hijacking them into success, therefore increasing a student's inner wealth.
Nurtured Heart Teacher Workshops
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Our workshops provide teachers & school staff with NH knowledge and techniques
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Educators and school staff begin to utilize skills in their respective schools & classrooms.
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Increases student's inner wealth, decreases bullying, anger and aggressive behaviour.
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We provide teacher assistance to implement the approach in their individual classrooms.
Classroom Group Heartfelt Words In Play
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No better environment for a nutured hearts intervention.
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This format provides a safe, playful, fun, engaging milieu within the "classroom family" that promotes rich relationships.
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Students and their teachers incorporate new skills, character building , embrace positive qualities & values.
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Increases student's self-control and empathy, decreases in anger, bullying and aggressive behaviour.
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During Words In Play, we create successes, acquire pro social & friendship skills, increase trust in self & others and self-esteem.
Why Use The NHA In Schools?
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Schools are a viable hope for a better society. Five days a week, 10 months a year, students are captive audiences, learning academics and embracing impressions of who they are and will likely become.
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It is a process that is about creating relationships that energize and support success and positive choices.
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When NH is implemented school-wide, classroom by classroom, the entire school advances to inspiring levels of respect, emotional safety and development of character which promotes greater academic achievement.
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Using rich relationships balanced by clear limits, it increases in time actually spent teaching, grades and morale.
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Teachers and school staff will feel more effective at helping students overcome problems.
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It works almost as soon as you utilize it.
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If there is a disruption, it stays contained.
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Students will truly sense that they are living in a sea of "positivity" while at school
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Students oftern begin doing better in other classes where NH isn't being used.
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It transforms students so they are better prepared to befriend, work, cope, endure, reason, love and hope.
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Teacher retention improves
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It helps parents become involved and see their child in positive new ways.
Benefits of The Nurtured Heart Approach
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Empowering parenting & school approach for every child & those with ADHD, LD, oppositional defiance, conduct disorder, anxiety, Bi Polar, FAS and attachment issues.
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Mindful parenting /teaching skills help to reduce family / classroom tension and conflict.
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Positive emotional nutrition vocabulary from parents /teachers to children
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Greater child self-control.
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Positive shift in a child’s behaviour and focus.
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