The BOUNCE Approach®
O - Openness
Openness to Trust & Connection
Where healing happens.
Some children keep every adult at arm’s length. They test the relationship, push away the person they most need, or seem determined to prove that no one will stay. This isn’t rejection – it’s protection. A nervous system that has learned relationships aren’t safe cannot simply be told otherwise.
That’s what this pillar is about. Trust isn’t a choice a child makes; it’s a felt state their body arrives at – slowly, through predictability, warmth, and repair after rupture. Connection isn’t a reward for good behaviour. It’s the foundation regulation is built on. Your steady, attuned presence is the intervention.
Below you’ll find courses and resources to support this area – helping you build relational safety over time, understand pushing-away as protection rather than rejection, and become the relationship that changes things.
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Attachment, trust and relationship-based resources
Attachment & Trust Resources
Grounding Strategies & Tools
DBT-informed strategies to support trust, safety and co-regulation. #members
Music Library
Music to support warmth, connection and nervous system safety. #members
Activities & Ideas
Ready-to-use activities supporting openness, trust and relational connection. #members
Choose exactly what you need
Pick the course or resource that fits your child or setting right now. Each one gives you practical, ready-to-use tools you can apply straight away.
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Every course, resource and tool across all six pillars – one membership, with new content added all the time. So as one need is met, the next answer is already waiting.
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What difference did it make?
A Snapshot turns curiosity into clarity.
Once you’ve put this pillar into practice, a Snapshot brings together observations from the adults around a child – a simple, repeatable way to see whether support is making a difference, evidence change over time, and know what to build next. Available within individual courses, and free for Professional Members.
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