 My name is Sallianne Hart and I'm going to talk to you about the protective behaviours process, which is a process of empowerment and aims to enhance relationships. I also want to show you these little PB Buddies. A good friend of mine made these times when she's feeling a little bit unsettled, she should sit down and make a PB Buddy to remind us that in the protective behaviours process there are two themes, the two buttons on the head reminds of those and they are that we all have the right to feel safe all the time and that we can talk with someone about anything even if it feels awful or small. Protective behaviours is a process, it's a way of doing something and the way we do it is by using seven tools, so hence there are seven buttons in the middle of the body. The very first strategy is theme reinforcement. What is it I can do to reinforce these two themes? How can I demonstrate that my setting is a place where people feel safe and that they can talk? I talk about it as the scratch and sniff approach. If I walk into a setting, how does it feel and do I feel safe enough to actually stay there? The second button in the protective behaviours strategy, the seven tool in the toolbox is about one step removed. Sometimes it doesn't feel safe enough to say how I'm feeling or what I'm thinking or to take responsibility for my behaviour. So I might say what if or I have a friend or how do you think our PB Buddy character is feeling? So we can practice things ahead of time and it helps us to hopefully feel safer because it gives us an element of control. The first strategy in the PB Toolbox is called network review. Who are those people I can talk with about absolutely anything, even if it feels awful or small and in protective behaviours. We would encourage people to have five network people and have different networks. So the little PB Buddy has got four networks here. One might be their family and friends network. One might be their professional network. One might be hobbies or a club network and who knows what other network might be. Some people have a religious network or a belief network. The fourth tool in the PB Toolbox is persistence. I think she definitely persists when she makes these. Sticking at something, stickability. That's a bit like resilience in protective behaviours. By resilience we don't mean stiff up a lip. We don't mean keep calm and carry on. We mean feeling safe enough to offer help for what you need. So persistent things. That's why babies are really good at protective behaviours because they persist. The fifth strategy is called protective interruption and that's about knowing when it's time to say enough now. Finished stop. My favourite version of that at the moment is a small child I know who now says I'd rather not as he's protective interruption. The sixth strategy is called risking on purpose because life is about adventures. To feel the fear and choose to do it because you want the outcome. The final button and I really like the one here. It's a big one. It's what sticks it all together. It's called the language of safety and it's about my communication and my communicating with people where I'm using quality interactions. Is there shared meaning in what I'm saying? Do my body language? Does that match what I'm saying? I'm hoping mine does now because I feel very passionate about protective behaviours. The final message is do I feel safe enough to own it? Oh my feelings? Who am I? Who am I? Sometimes I feel this. This is what I'm thinking and what are my choices? In protective behaviours we say that we can make decisions for ourselves but we don't need to make them by ourselves. So that's our little PvP pool, a person. We have a website called PvP pool which is a free community website. People can find all sorts of resources on there to help them feel empowered. Fantastic.