Tony France

Tony France, Headsight Services, has been working with vulnerable children and families for over 35 years, originally starting his career as a mental health social worker. Following twelve years in young people's addiction services he went on to work internationally for the British Council developing services for vulnerable children in South Africa, Nova Scotia and Sweden.

He currently delivers training and works as a psychotherapist. He first started applying the principles of NVR in his practice in 2006 and has continued to develop an NVR approach since.

Tony has a specialist interest in early trauma and its links with aggressive, destructive and self-destructive behaviours in children and young people.

Conference Workshop

Shame Sensitive NVR

Understanding shame, its role and impact is crucial to our understanding of behaviour and, in particular, violent and self-injurious behaviour.

As the master emotion there is nothing stronger than shame as a motivation for action however, when not understood or accounted for in our interactions can have extremely negative effects in our attempt to improve relationships.

My presentation will explore how small changes in language and approach can significantly improve safety and secure positive outcomes.