Partnership projects deliver Non violent resistance training in the UK .  Peter Jakob and Rachael Aylmer are working with us to deliver this approach as we aim to ensure the learning can be spread across different domain of child and adult mental and psychical health

Peter is an extensively experienced clinical Psychologist and his last position in the NHS was CAMHS Lead for Complex Cases East Sussex. He is a Director of PartnershipProjects, a multi-agency training consultancy aimed at creating effective service models for change promotion at the interface of Social Care, CAMHS and Education. I also provide general psychological practice for adults and for children and families from different locations in the Southeast of England. My main areas of interest are severe trauma, anxiety, violent and controlling behaviour.

A main focus of my work over the past years has been the introduction Non Violent Resistance (NVR) to the UK. NVR is a highly effective, innovative systemic approach to the violent, harmful and self-destructive behaviour in young people. NVR is ideally suited for working within Social Services and Education environments. Due to the nature of this work, I have developed adaptations of the approach to multi-stressed families with high levels of trauma and unmet needs and children who are looked after in foster care or residential services. A new area of interest has been the use of NVR with adults who are showing entitled dependency, both with or without enduring mental health problems.

Rachael has worked with families and young people as a behaviour support specialist for over twenty years, mainly with local government and most recently with a non-statutory service.

She has carried out innovative work with NVR in parent groups, and single family intervention with parents in their home environment. Rachael has pioneered the integration of NVR and 12-step principles in her work with parents recovering from addiction, and has supported PartnershipProjects by providing training and supervision on the NVR Certificate Course.