Nurture · Play · Structure
A Therapeutic Model
Nurture • Play • Structure for Clinicians
Learning to assess NPS Body Types.
Free training videos for clinicians and clinicians in training.
The NPS Model describes two Body Types: Play and Structure. A Body Type describes a lean, not a box. Most people show traits of both; the type names where, on balance, a person's weight tends to fall, and which of the shorter legs most needs tending.
Each video walks through how one type tends to show up in the body and in session: when a client wakes, how they process, how they meet a change in plans, what they reach for under stress, and where the growth edge usually lies. Each one closes with questions you can bring into session.
Use the Body Types the way the model intends: as one lens, observed across the first sessions alongside a client's history, not as a shortcut past getting to know them.
Assessing the Structure Body Type
Order, predictability, and stability, and the “fine” problem: competent, organized, and quietly starved of joy. About three minutes.
Assessing the Play Body Type
Creativity, spontaneity, and variety, and a life rich in beginnings and thin on completion. About three minutes.
Use them with the worksheets -
The Our Bodies comparison table and self-assessment pair with both videos. You'll find them on the NPS Worksheets and Exercises page.
Learn the model in supervision -
NPS Clinical Supervision groups work the model with your own clients across six weeks, Chapel Hill or online.
A note on credit -
These videos are a free introduction to the model. They are not continuing education and do not award CE hours. For NBCC-approved training, see Workshops and Continuing Education.