Empowered Parenting with the Nurtured Heart Approach® – Workshop

The Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) is a curriculum for relationship. It supports adults in relating to children in ways that guide them to use their intensity successfully and positively. Through the NHA, children come to see their intensity as fuel for greatness, not as a deficit or a handicap. Originally developed for working with the most challenging children, the NHA works to awaken the greatness inherent in all children. Rather than acting out negatively, children begin to act out their greatness – and adults get to experience the joy of being a highly effective agent of change in the lives of children.

Although it works beautifully to support all children in building inner wealth, NHA creates transformative changes in children who are challenged behaviorally, emotionally, socially, or academically, including children with diagnoses like: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Asperger Syndrome (AS) Anxiety Disorders Self-Harm NHA is also a useful preventative against bullying of all kinds.

Children get so much more connection and relationship when things are going wrong or threatening to go wrong. Adults tend to be lukewarm or cool when all is well, but as soon as problems arise, we get interested and vocal! Above all else, children want to connect. They want to feel seen, valued, and appreciated. And if we respond more energetically to them when they’re “being bad” than when they are being neutral or good, they begin to gravitate toward negativity in order to engage the adults in their world. The NHA teaches adults how to flip this dynamic upside-down to demonstrate to children that they can’t any longer engage us with any depth in response to negativity. At the same time, we show them that we are far more interested and ready to connect when things aren’t going wrong. We learn specific techniques for seeing far more in the “things going right” category than we ever have – and how to talk about them in ways children can truly hear. We learn to feed the child’s natural desire for adult connection and attention at the appropriate times. The child follows the energy. He or she turns toward his or her own greatness and potential for success like a flower to the sun.

Join us for the Empowered Parenting with the Nurtured Heart Approach® – Workshop by Christina Valery!

Sunday, July 20th from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

All AWRC & Hushabye Alumni are welcome! Childcare will be available.

Register here by Wednesday, July 16th: https://forms.gle/7yXywmnE1yAK97Sg7

Location:
Arizona Women’s Recovery Center
Main Office
4201 N 16th Street, Suite 170
Phoenix, AZ 85016