Dr Julia Jude

Dr Julia Jude is a trained family therapist, supervisor, lecturer, consultant and an accredited NVR practitioner, trainer and supervisor. Her field of interest draws from the rich black radical tradition, black feminist and indigenous theory which challenges the limitations of liberal and contemporary thinking.

Conference Workshop

Reclaiming the Roots of Nonviolent Resistance: Practising NVR with Families in Context (with Vicky Rodrigues)

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.