NVR through the Looking Glass. Researchers’ Reflexivity & Weaving Networks

This study examines Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) training as an embodied and relational practice rather than a technical intervention. Drawing on focused ethnography and reflexive thematic analysis of a two-day NVR training for professionals working with families affected by Child-to-Parent Violence and Abuse (CPVA), the research explores how NVR principles are enacted, embodied, and relationally transmitted. Findings show that learning emerges as a lived and felt experience, in which presence, self-regulation, and relational authority are developed through shared practices. The training space functions as a network-building environment, where solidarity is not taught as an abstract value but practised as a relational process, preparing professionals to support parents in mobilising family, community, and professional networks