Videos
What is FABIC?
FABIC is what Senior Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis calls her playground, where she goes every day and works in purpose to support people to understand ...
What Is Behaviour Management?
Behaviour management relieves the symptoms of a current life lesson. It manages people, behaviour and life but, according to Senior Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis from ...
What is Body Life Skills?
The Body Life Skills program was developed by Senior Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis and is the foundational method applied at FABIC when supporting any person ...
What do you love about working with people with ASD?
When asked this question, the first thing Senior Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis will say is that she loves the honesty that comes from people with ...
What is Addiction?
An addiction is a behaviour that is used repeatedly to numb out or cope with life, to help avoid or at least delay the life ...
What Is Commitment to Life?
Commitment to life means being willing to dive wholeheartedly into whatever life presents in the vast classroom of life. It describes a way of being ...
What Is a Behaviour Specialist?
A behaviour specialist is willing to develop an understanding as to why behaviours are happening and supports people to put lasting behaviour change for themselves ...
What is empathy and sympathy, and how do they differ from understanding?
When we approach the world with sympathy and empathy, it communicates a sentiment of feeling sorry for an individual and the challenges they are facing. ...
What Is the Difference between Pictures and Standards?
A picture or expectation is what we project onto another person about how they should live their life while a standard is the way we ...
What Are Skills-Based Strategies?
Skills-based strategies are the focus at FABIC and support people with lasting behaviour change so that they feel equipped to deal with whatever life lessons ...
What Are Relief-Based Strategies?
While relief-based strategies are very common today, they don’t truly support people when it comes to LASTING behaviour change. Instead, they simply relieve any unwanted ...
What Are Pictures and Smashed Pictures?
Senior Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis explains that one of the first lessons she had to learn in her work was that she cannot change or ...
How Do We Accept What Is Not in Our Control?
Senior Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis explains that one of the first lessons she had to learn in her work was that she cannot change or ...
What Are Contracts?
A contract is an agreement between two people or multiple parties. But when taken away from the legal context, we actually have many unspoken contracts, ...
What Are Rules?
While there are rules and regulations to keep everybody safe that we all need to follow when living as a society, the rules that Senior ...
What Are Stories, Themes and Repeating Life Lessons?
In this succinct video, Tanya Curtis, Senior Behaviour Specialist and founding director of FABIC Behaviour Specialist Centre, explains that all life lessons come around time ...
What Is the Classroom of Life?
All day, every day we are part of the classroom of life and we cannot escape it. Every moment presents a new learning opportunity.
What Is Right and Wrong?
This might come as a shock to you but – there is no truth in right and wrong. Judging actions, things and people in this ...
What Is Our Number 1 Job?
According to Tanya Curtis, Senior Behaviour Specialist and founding director of FABIC Behaviour Specialist Centre, our Number 1 Job is to love and care for ...
How Do I Parent a Child with ASD?
ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Tanya Curtis, Senior Behaviour Specialist and founding director of FABIC Behaviour Specialist Centre, explains that the way to ...
Do You Need to Have a Child to Be a Parent?
According to Tanya Curtis, Senior Behaviour Specialist and founding director of FABIC Behaviour Specialist Centre, the simple answer to this question is no. Why?
What Is Parenting?
In this short video, Senior Behaviour Specialist and founding director of FABIC Behaviour Specialist Centre, Tanya Curtis, takes parenting right back to its roots, way ...
What is responding to life?
Tanya Curtis, Senior Behaviour Specialist and founding director of FABIC Behaviour Specialist Centre, explains that responding to life is knowing that there is an endless ...
What is anxiety?
When we feel settled and at ease, our body is free of anxiety. But as soon as this state is disturbed in the slightest, we ...