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The Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) teaches us to shift the intensity of our big feelings into helpful and healthful expressions of our gifts. This method helps adults navigate from a heart-centered place, feeling more equipped to move gracefully through the big feelings moments.
What is NHA?
The Nurtured Heart Approach® is a therapeutic method developed by Howard Glasser in 1992 to help children and adults with challenging behaviors. Unlike traditional behavior management, NHA emphasizes behavior inspiration through repeated experiences of being seen and acknowledged, building a positive portfolio of rich with Inner Wealth™. NHA provides a simple, beautiful framework to enrich your relationships and guide you and your child in greatness. By recognizing and amplifying positive behavior using the 3 Stands™, NHA transforms intense energy into a positive force.
Be ready for some cognitive, energy, and heart shifting as we explore these transformative truths together. Your journey towards fostering greatness in children starts here!
The Nurtured Heart Approach® Classes
NHA 101
Curious about the Nurtured Heart Approach®? Start here! This one-hour Zoom class provides a foundational overview of NHA, a powerful method designed to transform challenging children and your relationship with them. You will learn immediate tools to start making positive changes. You will gain a new perspective that guides intense children towards transformation and helps all children flourish.
Whether you're a parent, teacher, or caregiver, this class will introduce you to key strategies that encourage positive behavior, self-regulation, and emotional resilience.
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What you'll gain:
A clear understanding of the core principles of NHA
Insights into how NHA can shift patterns of behavior
Practical tips you can start using immediately
Details:Duration: 1 hour
Mode: Online via Zoom
Cost: $15
Ideal For: Parents, caregivers, and educators who are new to NHA and want to explore its potential benefits for their family or classroom.
NHA Deep Dive
Delve into the Nurtured Heart Approach® with our deep dive training. With 6 hours of engaging content, this class uses stories, videos, and interactive exercises to help you understand how your intense child perceives themselves and their relationships. You'll gain effective tools that speak the child's language - Energy! - and help reframe how you see your child, motivating them to live in greatness and use their intensity in wonderful and purposeful ways.
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What You Will Learn:
NHA methodology and core concepts.
Techniques for transforming your intense child's behavior and your relationship.
The 4 types of NHA Recognitions to build Inner Wealth™ in your children and yourself
The importance of Restet, Restart, Restore practices.
Details:
Duration: 6 hours
Mode: Online via Zoom
Investment: $150
Ideal For:
Parents and educators who are new to or have basic understanding of NHA and are ready to dive deeper into it's principles and techniques.
What people are feeling…
Parent and Mental Health Therapist:
I’m really glad we attended the NHA Deep Dive training! It’s so rare that we get focused time to really think and talk about HOW we’re parenting. Taking the time to strategize more—and learn from someone else—really helped us to see where our engagement with our kids needed some tweaking.
It’s only been a few days, but I already feel more energized—and less frustrated—in my interactions with my kids. I’ve seen a few instances where their response to me has noticeably improved. And my daughter said to me last night, “I feel like you’ve been happier with us lately.” Obviously, she doesn’t realize that this is a result of me learning to intentionally energize our positive interactions rather than our negative interactions.
So again, it’s only been a few days, but I’m grateful for the results so far. Thanks Andrea!
Tim Courtois, Parent of 4 and 8 year olds, Mental Health Therapist, Asheville, NC
Pediatric Occupational Therapist
Thank you so much for last night's NHA training. I'm really blown away! I was very moved and so completely inspired by your presentation. I was looking through my notes this morning and was like, OK, today's day one. I'm gonna start implementing the Nurtured Heart Approach®… and oh my God, it works! It works. It really works.
I was trying to match energy level and bring the intensity where it needed to be in a moment. And it was so simple. I was so excited to have less protesting in OT sessions this morning.
And, with this basic knowledge, I was able to look around the classroom and notice all these ineffective things that the teachers are doing because, like you said, that's what we've been conditioned to do in our society. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much! I really mean that and I really appreciate you bringing NHA to the Family OT. I look forward to seeing how the Nurtured Heart Approach® unfolds in my OT practice. I'm totally here for it!
Christine Beavers, COTA, The Family OT, Asheville, NC
