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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Area individuals will get a chance to participate in a free, six week course focused on the Nurtured Heart Approach (NHA), a social-emotional strategy that strengthens relationships by focusing energy on what is going right.

The course focuses on helping children and adults as they build their relationship in either parenthood or the classroom.

“Children get so much more – more relationship, more intense relationship – when things are going wrong,” they foundation reports. “This is the foundational error in conventional ways of parenting and school discipline. The Nurtured Heart Approach will bring you to understand how your best efforts may actually fuel the fire of challenging behavior – and how to make simple shifts that will change everything.”

NDSU Extension Resource Coordinator Amy Tichy says an example of this is in the classroom when a student misbehaves.

Tichy says the course focuses on guiding “intense behavior.”

The Jamestown course will be taught by Mindy Blackmore, a teacher in the Jamestown Public School system. The course will be free as part of a sponsorship with the North Dakota Department of Health and North Dakota Parent Education Network. Tichy says without those sponsors, the course would run somewhere from $75 to even $100.

Space is limited. The course will run beginning September 21st and run each Thursday through October at Trinity Lutheran Church. Pre-registration is required. You can do so by calling the Barnes County Extension Service at 701-845-8528.

Listen to more on the course with Amy Tichy below: