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NonViolent Resistance
Therapy and Practice (NVR)

September 25-27, 2025 | ONLINE ONLY

1st North American Online Conference on

With tracks for Parents and Professionals

"Standing against harm, caringly, together"

Early bird registration opens on January 4, 2025.

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Who is this conference for?

Do you offer workshops or therapy for parents, or only train professionals?"

CNTP currently offers continuing education training in NVR for professionals. We hope to offer psychoeducation and therapy referrals for parents and other caregivers down the road. Certain members of CNTP’s offer NVR therapy privately, within their respective jurisdictions.
Where can I find an NVR therapist in Canada or the USA?

CNTP’s primary goal is to begin training licensed practitioners in both countries, to address the growing demand for NVR interventions. Currently there are not that many. Contact us to see how we can help.
What is the relationship between CNTP and Partnership Projects Ltd. UK ?

The Center for NVR Therapy and Practice and Partnership Projects Ltd. UK are separate entities, based in Canada and in the UK respectively. Both deliver NVR trainings and certifications in their respective territories and are independent of each other.
Do you offer individual supervision?

CNTP does not offer supervision,but does offer NVR mentoring and case consultations to professionals around the world. Contact us for more details
Do you offer in-agency courses?

Yes, CNTP offers training both to independent practitioners and agencies wishing to train their staff. Contact us for more information on our agency-based options.
Are courses accredited for Continuing Education accreditation?

We are taking steps to gain Continuing Education accreditation of our courses, by major professional associations in the USA and in Canada. As of now, our curriculum is not specifically accredited for continuing education by any organization.
Is CNTP accredited by another body, e.g. the UK based NVR Association?

CNTP was founded by internationally recognised leaders in the field of NVR therapy. Rather than become accredited by an existing organisation, we are positioned to create accreditation standards for other organisations. Thus, we are not accredited by the UK based NVR Association or NVR UK, however one of us (Peter Jakob) is co-founder of both organisations. As NVR spreads in North America, we will eventually support the creation of North Amrican public accrediting body.
Do you offer scholarships?

CNTP offers a scholarship discounts to applicants who may not be able to afford the full training fee. In cases where there is more than one applicant, CNTP will either choose which applicant to award the discount to, or split the discount between applicants. Decision making Decisions will be made based: a. On our perception that the applicant’s situation will not enable them to pay the full fee; b. On our perception that a given applicant is in greater or equal need of discount than other applicants. We reserve the right to award or refrain from awarding scholarship discounts per a given cohort. Normally we would award one scholarship to people in need per more than five and less than 11 registrants in particular cohort, and another one per the next ten. We may chose to split scholarships. Final decisions will be made two weeks before the start of a course. Applying for the Scholarship discount First, register for the course. Then write an email message to dand@nvrt.ca stating your background, your interest in NVR, and the circumstances on which your request for a scholarship is based. Decisions are in made in good faith. We will not be asking to see financial or other documents in support of your request.

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:

NV-What?

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

Program Overview

The conference offers two main knowledge streams: An innovation stream and a parenting experience stream.

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

SPACE and Anxiety
NVR and child aggression
NVR, attachment and trauma
NVR and Eating Disorders
NVR and Addictions Work
FASD, Neurodiversity and NVR
NVR and suicidal behaviors
NVR and Contactivity work with children who avoid
NVR and non-emerging adulthood, entrenched dependence and failure to launch

Settings and methods track

Neuro-de-escalation
NVR work facing institutions and agencies
NVR in Group Homes and Residential Centers
Implementing NVR into your clinical practice
NVR in group work
Use of guided imagination in NVR
Community outreach for socially withdrawn young people and their families
NVR Child and Parent work together
NVR in in-patient settings
NVR in the education system
Implementing NVR in a community program

Presenters:

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

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.

Moderators

Dr. Peter Jakob, Mary-Jo Land, Dan Dulberger.

Keynote speakers

Speakers

Dan Dulberger

Dan is founder and director of the Center for NVR Therapy and Practice. A systemic therapist, a counselling therapist and a counsellor in NVR interventions, Dan is internationally acknowledged as an instructor and innovator in the Non-Violent Resistance therapy approach, as well as in NVR interventions with families of non-emerging adult children with entrenched dependence. His professional activities include clinical work with families in crises, consulting to mental health organizations, training, supervision, authoring, teaching and speaking, in Canada, in Europe and in Israel. Dan teaches and supervises at the University of Calgary’s Post-Masters Certificate and Diploma in Couple and Family Therapy and is formerly a staff member of the Calgary Family Therapy Center. In 2010 Dan founded the Israeli Clinic for Parental Empowerment, together with Haim Omer. Dan holds an M.A. degree in Psychology from the Tel-Aviv University, is a graduate of SHINUI (the Israeli Institute for Systemic Studies, Family and Personal Change), and was personally trained by Haim Omer in the NVR approach. Dan is certified by the Israeli (CCFT), Canadian (CAMFT) and American (AAMFT) Associations for Marital and Family Therapy, and by the Association of Counseling Therapists of Alberta (ACTA). He is also accredited as a Practitioner and Supervisor by the UK Association of NVR Practice (UK)

Dr. Haim Omer

Haim Omer is the founder of NVR (non-violent resistance), as an approach to parents, schools and communities. He is emeritus professor at the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of eleven books (translated into 12 languages) and over eighty academic articles. He has developed the model of Non-Violent Resistance and The New Authority in its application to families, schools and communities. Haim is married and has five children: Anat, Yonatan, the author Mike Omer, the painter Noam Omer and Yael. He dedicated one of his books to "my five children, who taught me all I know about parental helplessness".

Dr. Eli Lebowitz

Professor Lebowitz studies and treats childhood and adolescent anxiety at the Yale School of Medicine, Child Study Center, where he directs the Program for Anxiety Disorders. His research focuses on the development, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special emphasis on family dynamics and the role of parents in these disorders. Dr. Lebowitz is the lead investigator on multiple funded research projects, and is the author of research papers and of books and chapters on childhood and adolescent anxiety. Dr. Lebowitz’ work has been recognized by private and public organizations including the Brain and Behavior Foundation, the National Institue of Mental Health and the National Center for Advancing Translational Science. He is also the father of three great boys.

Dr. Peter Jakob

With a background in social work, Peter has worked as Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist in both CAMHS and Adult Mental Health for over 37 years, specialising in children and families involved with child protection. He has in-depth knowledge of treating trauma as the after-effect of childhood maltreatment, as well as extensive experience in providing therapy for parents’ mental health problems. Peter has introduced Nonviolent Resistance to the UK. He has adapted the approach for heavily traumatised, multi-stressed families, and his work with looked-after children has inspired him to develop a child focus in NVR. Peter is a prolific national and international presenter. Aiming to develop collaborative working relationships in which dialogue can flourish and service users’ experience and perspectives are centred in conversation, Peter considers social awareness as a cornerstone of engaged therapeutic practice.

Dr. Uri Weinblatt

Dr. Uri Weinblatt is a clinical psychologist and the developer of Contactivity, an NVR-informed therapy for helping young people overcome avoidance. He collaborated with Haim Omer in writing the original NVR manual for parents and conducted the first outcome study to measure the effectiveness of NVR. Dr. Weinblatt maintains an active practice and is an international expert in treating behavioral problems in children, as well as avoidant disorders including school refusal, social anxiety, and addictions. He is the author of three books and is frequently invited to conduct trainings in Contactivity and his specialized approach for regulating shame. He has also recently participated in the docu-reality TV series in Israel, “Parent Therapy.”

Dr. Michaela Fried

Michaela's medical areas of expertise are childpsychiatry and paediatrics. She is a certified psychotherapist and trauma therapist and has completed NVR- basic and advanced training courses in Tel Aviv. As contractual partner of the Institut f?r Neue Autorit?t (INA) in Austria, Michaela is assimilating NVR methodologies as supervisor and coach in schools, foster homes, families and in inpatient child psychiatric facilities. Before her official retirement, Michaela was medical director of HPZ Rust, a therapeutic center for indoor treatment of children aged 6 to 16 years and deputy medical director of an outpatient department at PSD Eisenstadt/Burgenland. She has been involved in social projects in Europe and abroad, including voluntary humanitarian work with terminally ill people (UK), war refugees (former Yugolslavia, Macedonia, South Sudan, Gaza and Greece ) in mission with several NGOs. Michaela is Country Program Co-ordinator of Bridges for Hope and Peace (B4HP).

Kerry Shoesmith

Bio NVR conference September 2025Kerry Shoesmith is a seasoned leader in therapeutic care with over 20 years of experience in youth and community work. She began her career in residential childcare in 2000 and has since held roles in both voluntary and statutory services. Prior to her operational role as Director, where she oversaw multiple homes and a therapeutic school, she successfully managed homes, with one achieving six consecutive Outstanding ratings from Ofsted.In 2010, Kerry earned an MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mental Health, enabling her to provide direct therapeutic interventions and clinical supervision. She has played a key role in shaping therapeutic care planning, focusing on recovery from trauma.In 2013, Kerry integrated Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) into her practice, guided by Dr. Peter Jakob. Her therapeutic approach combines NVR, CBT, and other modalities. Kerry currently provides NVR and clinical supervision to teams and homes working with children and families, offers individual therapy to looked-after children, and delivers systemic support to families around the child. Additionally, she is the only ReAttach trainer in the UK, continuing to innovate in therapeutic care.

Mary-Jo Land

Mary-Jo is a Registered Psychotherapist specializing in supporting and enhancing attachment in children, bonding in parents and resolution of early losses, trauma and neglect in children. In her work with parents, adoptive parents, foster parents and their children, she uses Dyadic Developmental Therapy, Child and Family Play Therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Mary-Jo provides training and consultation in developmental trauma and refugee trauma. Currently, Mary-Jo is a member of the board of directors of Adopt4Life and is a member of the National Consortium on Aggression Towards Family and Caregivers in Childhood and Adolescence (AFCCA). When We Are Very Young, is a video podcast series on attachment, trauma and parenting. She wrote Caring Together, a guide for parents, foster parents and adoptive parents to assist all parents in reducing losses by maintaining connections for children in care. As co-author of Journey of Peace, Mary-Jo worked in Afghanistan to assist in the implementation of this peace building through mental health curriculum. Mary-Jo lives in Grey County, Ontario and has a virtual private practice.

Dr. Uri Berger

Dr. Berger is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in emerging adulthood and 'failure to launch' syndrome. Practicing in Connecticut, New York, and Israel, Dr. Berger specializes in Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) therapy and Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) therapy, providing support to parents of young adults struggling with independence. With a passion for both therapy and research, Dr. Berger is dedicated to empowering individuals and families to navigate the challenges of emerging adulthood.

Dr. Irit Schorr Sapir

Dr. Irit Schorr-Sapir is a clinical psychologist. She is the director and co-founder (with prof. Haim Omer) of the "NVR & New Authority School" of Israel. Irit is the director of the ADHD clinic and the ADHD Center , in Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel. She is also a lecturer in the Department of Psychology in Tel Aviv University. During the past 20 years she has contributed to the development of the New Authority and Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) approach. She developed therapeutic applications of NVR, including intervention manuals for ADHD ; violence between siblings; school refusal; parent-teacher alliance building, and New Authority in schools. Irit is a senior supervisor and trainer in the NVR and NA approach in Israel and worldwide.

Center for

NVR therapy & practice (CNTP)

Standing against harm, caringly, together.

NonViolent Resistance
Therapy and Practice (NVR)

September 25-27, 2025 | ONLINE ONLY

With tracks for Parents and Professionals

"Standing against harm, caringly, together"

Early bird registration opens on January 4, 2025.

ONLINE

Notify
me

I am a:

Who is this conference for?

Discover NVR

Program Overview

Innovation stream

Parenting experience stream

Speakers

Center for

NVR therapy & practice

Center for

NVR therapy & practice (CNTP)

NonViolent Resistance Therapy and Practice (NVR)

September 25-27, 2025 | ONLINE ONLY

With tracks for Parents and Professionals

"Standing against harm, caringly, together"

Early bird registration opens on January 4, 2025.

ONLINE

Notify me

I am a:

Who is this conference for?

Discover NVR

Program Overview

Innovation stream

Parenting experience stream

Speakers

Center for

NVR therapy & practice

NonViolent Resistance
Therapy and Practice (NVR)

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