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Protective Behaviours is a strengths-based life skill which encourages personal safety, self-empowerment, empathy, connection and responsibility to the rights of others, and responsibility for an individual’s own right to feel safe all the time, giving the confidence and strategies to live safe adventurous lives.
Protective Behaviours develops awareness and connection to others, teaches skills and strategies to avoid victimisation, and promotes healthy relationships that do not victimise.
Protective Behaviours is grounded in upholding, respecting, advocating and role-modelling our responsibility to, and responsibility for human rights, particularly the Rights of the Child.
Protective Behaviours themes and strategies often compliment or form protective education programs for children. A Protective Behaviours practitioner facilitates personal safety, self-determination, agency and self-empowerment in every interaction.
Learn more about recommended education programs and becoming a Practitioner by contacting us at info@pbwest.com.au
Protective Behaviours builds capacity, develops assertiveness, self esteem, resilience and communication skills, it empowers and teaches rights and responsibilites. Importantly, PBs not only teaches strategies about what someone could do if they were feeling unsafe or being victimised, it also teaches how and why not to victimise and respect everyone’s right to feel safe.
Protective Behaviours is a proactive and preventative life skills and personal safety program. It is designed for children, young people and adults to help keep themselves feeling safe.
Protective Behaviours feeling safe includes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual safety. Protective Behaviours works towards reducing all forms of abuse within the community.
Protective Behaviours is well known for its success in helping protect children from child sexual abuse by empowering the child.
Underpinning the Protective Behaviours process is the social and emotional context, including unwritten rules, feeling thoughts and behaviours and the language of safety.
All aspects of PBs are about advocating, empowering and role modelling every persons right to feel safe all the time.
With our right to feel safe comes a responsibility not to do anything that would leave other people feeling unsafe. One persons right to feel safe does not veto another persons right to feel safe. Protective Behaviours helps people to identify when they are feeling unsafe by understanding and recognising their Early Warning Signs and what actions someone might take to help themselves feel safe again. Self-determination, resilience, self- awareness, responsibility for self and responsibility to others are embedded through out the Protective Behaviours Process.
Find out more about Protective Behaviours and its many applications in helping ALL people to feel safe by contacting us about our training options available.
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