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Dream Big – new videos for teens
Find the fire inside with DNA-v – Scroll down for new release videos to to inspire your work with adolescents We are excited to now have 3 simple videos that can help introduce young people to their DNA-V. Now you will have a way to show young people, inspire them, fire them. The videos can provide the[…]
DNA-v tip sheets: Helping kids build friendships skills
Click here to download – DNA-v tip sheet for friendships We all want and need friends. It is a deep longing within all humans. Young people who have strong social view skills are more likely to build supportive friendships, and behave in a kind and prosocial way towards others. In this tip sheet we show parents,[…]
DNA-V kids game – #♥mydna
We are delighted to share this new DNA-v kids game, created by Sarah Mooy Here is what Sarah has to say about #♥mydna: #♥mydna is a game of flexibility and fun to help us all learn to love our behavioural dna skills. The game is designed to introduce the DNA-v model for social and emotional learning[…]
Download the latest resource – Helping families build their social-view
Click here to download the tip sheet – DNA-v tip sheet – Social view at home Relationships are the essential ingredient to our health and wellbeing. In DNA-v we call this ingredient ‘social-view’. We try to build social-view skills to help kids, parents and carers strengthen their relationships. Social-view can help bring together your knowledge of attachments, friendships, connection, value[…]
DNA-v and the self: Helping kids and parents take a flexible self view
The DNA-v model changes how we work with kids and teens. It gives professionals and parents a dynamic and easy language to talk to kids, to help them practice seeing themselves as more than the negative labels they carry, and helps them with difficult emotions they are having. Working on the self can be one of the[…]
Discoverer helps us learn and grow
We have just finished a series of workshops in schools, including evening talks to parents, and this has left me with a sense that we need to do more to help professionals understand the discoverer in DNA-v. The Discoverer is a behavioural process, linked theoretically to evolutionary principles of variation and selection. It is not synonymous with[…]
Start using DNA-V with kids and teens, and you’ll wonder how you ever did ACT for kids without it!!
Get started quickly with FREE DNA-v Tip sheets and build psychological flexibility in families. Joseph Ciarrochi and I have been working hard behind the scenes building a more developmentally appropriate model of psychological flexibility for kids. We knew that we could not approach child ACT as we do with adults. There are just so many important[…]
Do the walk of life, or step onto Kingsley’s magic carpet
Yeah we do the walk, do the DNA walk of life…… AN exercise you just have to get walking to: The walk of life is a used to introduce DNA-v to a young person, parent or class room. You don’t have to do it exactly like this, it’s just a guide to get you thinking. This introduction[…]
Strength spotting card sort – Free download
Strength building is a common approach used across education and the workplace. Identifying our strengths can be helpful, especially if this helps us to flexibly achieve our valued goals. We have been testing out strengths work for the last few years in the clinic, schools and workshops. We’ve now created a beautiful set of cards to help[…]
The Thriving Adolescent – Shipping November 1st, 2015!!
After 3 years of work we are getting excited by the prospect of holding a ‘real’ copy of this book in our hands. To write this book we researched development and growth in young people, exchanged over 400,000 words in messages to each other, wrote 3 drafts and threw them away……until finally we had a[…]