Vicky Rodrigues

Vicky Rodrigues trained in NVR in 2014, initially to help with her clinical role leading a team working with parents of young people who are on the edge of the criminal justice system. Since then she has immersed herself in delivering NVR parenting courses to clinical staff as parents, training and supervising clinicians. NVR has been the journey of learning, listening to the parents voice to shape and explore concepts that allow parents to create an environment of safety and love.

Conference Workshop

Reclaiming the Roots of Nonviolent Resistance: Practising NVR with Families in Context (with Dr Julia Jude)

Nonviolent Resistance (NVR) is widely used in parenting interventions across the UK. Yet as the model has moved into clinical practice, its roots in Gandhi's satyagraha and the civil rights movement have largely faded from view.

Many families engaging with services today live with migration, racism, economic precarity, and complex histories that shape everyday parenting. When these realities remain unacknowledged, NVR can unintentionally reproduce Western assumptions about family life.

This workshop explores how facilitators can practice NVR in ways that recognise the social, historical, and relational contexts shaping families' lives, reconnecting the model to its ethical and communal foundations.

As facilitators, how do we create space within NVR parenting courses to move from Western assumptions about parenting toward greater curiosity about families' lived experiences?

Working with Global Majority families invites us to reconnect with the deeper roots of NVR and reflect on what this means in practice.

This workshop offers a space to explore these questions together.