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Joseph Ciarrochi and colleagues on self-compassion and perfectionism
Many of you will be interested in our new paper showing that self-compassion can protect one from the downsides of maladaptive perfectionism. The paper is led by Madeleine Ferrari (watch this space for more cool work from her). A core idea of the paper is that you can’t really stop people from having perfectionistic thoughts, especially[…]
DNA-V online self-paced course is live at last!
Hi everyone, We are excited to invite you all to our new DNA-V online course. After years of pouring our heart and soul into a youth model of acceptance, mindfulness and positive psychology we are thrilled to be able to spread it to the people who work with teens no matter where they are or what their profession—clinicians, counselors, social workers,[…]
DNA-v group program for young people
We are excited to share with you DNA-v for groups The DNA-v protocol by, Meredith Rayner, Louise Hayes and Joseph Ciarrochi, was designed for young people in schools and counselling. Meredith piloted the program in high school groups to good effect. We are examining the data now and expect to have more to share on this[…]
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[…]