Dr Chris Moore
Six for September: Recommended Reading
It’s the beginning of a new academic year. The pressures from the previous year may still linger in your mind. Undoubtedly there will be...
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Dr Chris Moore
Jul 18, 20237 min read
Blocked Care in Education
Dan Hughes and Dr Jonathan Baylin describe Blocked Care as the suppression of open, engaged, and reflective caregiving as a result of...
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Dr Chris Moore
Dec 15, 20227 min read
Four Steps of Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a model which is based on the principle that our choice of language and style of communication can...
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Dr Chris Moore
Sep 27, 20228 min read
Nurture Principle 6: The importance of Transitions
The final blog in this series on the six Principles of Nurture will consider the importance of transitions in young people’s lives. The...
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Dr Chris Moore
Aug 25, 20229 min read
Nurture Principle 5: Beyond Behaviour
This latest blog on the Principles of Nurture considers the fifth principle: “All behaviour is communication”. This promotes the...
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Dr Chris Moore
Apr 5, 20227 min read
Nurture Principle 4: The Power of Communication
As we delve into the second half of this series of blogs on the whole-school application of the Principles of Nurture, this one looks at...
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Dr Chris Moore
Jan 26, 20227 min read
Nurture Principle 3: The Development of Wellbeing
This blog considers the third of the six Principles of Nurture: “The importance of nurture for the development of wellbeing”. This is...
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Dr Chris Moore
Jan 4, 20227 min read
Nurture Principle 2: The Classroom offers a Safe Base
Continuing the series on the Six Principles of Nurture, this blog will examine the second principle: “The classroom offers a safe base”....
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Dr Chris Moore
Nov 22, 20217 min read
Nurture Principle 1: Learning is Understood Developmentally
This new series of blogs will look at the Six Principles of Nurture and how they are relevant not just to Nurture Groups and nurturing...
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Dr Chris Moore
Oct 20, 20216 min read
Staying within your Window of Tolerance
Dan Siegel refers to the Window of Tolerance as a span of harmonious functioning. He likens it to a middle ground between chaos and...
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Dr Chris Moore
Sep 1, 20214 min read
Embracing your Circle of Influence
It can be difficult to put plans in place and take appropriate action when we are flooded with anxious thoughts. Shifting our focus to...
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Dr Chris Moore
Mar 31, 202110 min read
The High-Rise of Reason: Part 3 of the 3 Rs
In the final part of this series on Dr Bruce Perry’s 3 Rs (Regulate-Relate-Reason), I’m now looking at Reason. Too often we leap over the...
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Dr Chris Moore
Mar 3, 20218 min read
Relational Routes: Part 2 of the 3 Rs
In my previous blog, I wrote about part 1 of Dr Bruce Perry’s sequence of engagement (Regulate-Relate-Reason)....
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Dr Chris Moore
Jan 27, 202110 min read
The Constellation of Regulation: Part 1 of the 3 Rs
At the end of 2020, I wrote a blog about the Arousal Continuum and how a child’s ability to learn and cope with different experiences...
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Dr Chris Moore
Jan 12, 202110 min read
"We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails"
There’s no getting away from stress. It’s part and parcel of everyday life and it’s an important factor in helping us to learn, grow and...
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Dr Chris Moore
Dec 30, 20206 min read
New Year's Affirmations for Self-Care
Rather than making some New Year’s Resolutions and inevitably failing to meet any of them, this blog will look at some positive...
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Dr Chris Moore
Nov 3, 20207 min read
Compensate for my Brain State: The Arousal Continuum
From undertaking the “Introduction to the NME Training Series” and having read much of Dr Bruce Perry’s work on trauma – including his...
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Dr Chris Moore
Oct 28, 20209 min read
Troubleshooting Self-Care: Having a R.E.S.E.T.
Self-care is difficult. I think it’s important to say this, as someone who has struggled for a long time to give myself permission to...
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Dr Chris Moore
Sep 15, 20205 min read
Promoting School Readiness with Descriptive Commenting
The Incredible Years Programme by Carolyn Webster-Stratton is designed to promote children’s academic, social and emotional competence....
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Dr Chris Moore
Aug 31, 202012 min read
Returning to School using the 5 Principles of Recovery
Research findings from Stevan Hobfoll et al (2007) offer five essential elements of intervention for disasters and mass trauma. Everyone...
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