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Is Your Child at Risk of Suicide? Do you lie awake at night, overwhelmed with fear and helplessness? Do you feel like you’re constantly walking on eggshells, unsure what might trigger a crisis?

Two Pathways. One Shared Goal: Saving Lives and building connection.

For Parents

Parents' of children who are having suicidal thoughts live in constant fear and deep emotional pain. The good news is, parents can help their child to heal.

For professionals

We offer an online foundation course, followed, and built upon, by a 4-day NVR training for professionals who want to support families facing suicidality, selfharm, and other destructive behaviours

Nonviolent Resistance (NVR) can support parents in supporting their child to heal

Nonviolent Resistance (NVR) can support parents in supporting their child to heal. Our NVR-based program empowers parents to reduce their child’s suffering while also helping them to regain strength, hope, and direction in the midst of crisis. If your child is threatening suicide, withdrawing from life, refusing to eat, cutting themselves, or caught in self-destructive behaviours, and you as a parent are feeling lost, out of options, or desperate for a change—this course is for you.

“I was stuck in fear; unable to act. Through this program, I found a way to reconnect with my child and resist the despair.”

Parent participant

What You’ll Learn

Our NVR Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Course gives you the tools to:

Understand your child’s emotional world and your own
Rebuild a relationship even when your child seems unreachable
De-escalate crises and lovingly resist self harm and suicide attempts
Respond with strength and connection, not fear
Build a support network around your family
Turn powerlessness into presence, courage, love, and action

What is NVR

Nonviolent Resistance (NVR) is a proven method to support children struggling with aggression, depression, suicidality, school refusal, and escalating threats. NVR teaches parents how to:

Stand firm without aggression or power struggles
Reconnect without demanding
Support without overpowering
Resist despair with loving presence

Meet the Experts Behind the Program

Professor Haim Omer

Haim Omer is the founder of NVR.

Some years before he developed the approach, he learned through his own experiences the power of parental presence. In the last 2 decades Haim adapted the NVR approach to guide professionals and parents to bring about a reduction in suicide and self-harm.

Kathelijne van Dongen

Kathelijne van Dongen integrates NVR with Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) for adolescents at high suicide risk. Her methods have led to more strength and hope, connection and understanding and often a significant reduction in self-harm and suicide attempts. She works as a systemic therapist and trainer at Ursula Rivierduinen, a national centre of excellence for eating disorders. There, she supports families of adolescents with severe eating problems, helping parents to lovingly resist the eating disorder while remaining emotionally connected to their child. She also collaborates with the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) in research on the integration of NVR and DBT in suicide prevention. Her work shows that healing is possible—not just for the child, but for the entire family.

What sets our course apart?

Evidence-based approach grounded in research and expertise
High level of importance and attention to the parents’ suffering and stress
Empowers both parents and the network by providing a safe haven and stable anchor in which healing is possible
Allows you to learn from expert parents with lived experience

Take the first step today

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take back your role as a connected, courageous parent or become a professional who makes a life-saving difference.

Enrol now

For parents

For professionals

A Critical Note: This Is not a standalone solution

While NVR is powerful, it must be part of a broader care plan. Our program does not replace psychiatric care. We always advise families to seek professional psychiatric or psychological support for their child and, if possible, for the entire family system. NVR complements clinical care and empowers families to act, connect, and resist—even when professional help is initially refused NVR offers parents powerful tools alongside clinical treatment. Together, these approaches create a stronger safety net.

We know how frightening, exhausting and lonely it can be to live in constant fear for your child’s life.

And we know the strength it takes to keep going.

Through our online course and structured parent group, we help you with practical guidance and tools to become that anchor to life that your child needs.

Join our online course and connect with a parenting group and certified NVR practitioner with expertise and training in this field.

Learn how to support your child, even in their darkest moments. And feel support for yourself.

We offer an online foundation course, followed, and built upon, by a 4-day live NVR training for professionals who want to support families facing suicidality, self-harm, and other destructive behaviours.

In this training, you’ll learn to:

Facilitate NVR-based parent group trainings and therapy
Guide parents through resistance and reconnection
Integrate NVR with your existing methods, such as DBT or systemic therapy
Work with families in deep crisis without getting lost in despair yourself

Begin with the online foundation course and continue with our live training and supervision pathway to become a Certified and Accredited NVR Practitioner in suicide prevention.

What You Get:

Immediate access to our in-depth online course
Membership in a compassionate community of peers and experts by experience
Evidence-based skills and real-life strategies
A proven roadmap for navigating suicidal crises with love and structure

Is Your Child at Risk of Suicide? Do you lie awake at night, overwhelmed with fear and helplessness? Do you feel like you’re constantly walking on eggshells, unsure what might trigger a crisis?

For Parents

For professionals

Nonviolent Resistance (NVR) can support parents in supporting their child to heal

What You’ll Learn

What is NVR

Meet the Experts Behind the Program

Professor Haim Omer

Kathelijne van Dongen

What sets our course apart?

Take the first step today

Enrol now

For parents

For professionals

A Critical Note: This Is not a standalone solution

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