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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[…]
Best selling teen book passes school test
Our best selling teen book, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life has become popular with practitioners across the world as an easy way to introduce ACT to teens. Recently Kylie Smith in Canberra Australia converted much of the book into a group program for us in schools. Her results showed positive outcomes[…]