Breakaway Techniques for Care Workers — Skills That Actually Work | Dynamis
Breakaway Techniques: The Skills Every Care Worker Needs This post is about breakaway techniques for care. Breakaway training has a simple purpose: to help staff get away safely when someone grabs, holds, blocks, or assaults them. That sounds straightforward until you put it into a real care setting. A person may be frightened, confused, intoxicated, […]
Chaos, Control then Resolution: Lessons from Three Days of Functional Skills for PPST and PMVA Trainers
Training the Messy Middle: What Functional Training Reveals About Skills Under Pressure Functional Tactics Training is what most physical-skills training should be but rarely is. It is the question of how to train a learner for the messy middle of a confrontation, not the clean start or the polished end. Training physical skills is easy […]
NHS breakaway training: protecting staff while keeping care and dignity in view
This post is about nhs breakaway training. Breakaway training in the NHS has to hold two truths at the same time. Staff have the right to be safe at work. Patients are often distressed, unwell, confused, frightened, intoxicated, in pain, or experiencing a mental health crisis when incidents happen. Those two truths belong together. Staff […]
Breakaway training: what it is, what it is not, and what your team actually needs
Breakaway training exists for a very specific moment. A worker is grabbed, held, blocked, pulled, or physically prevented from moving away. They need to get free, create distance and reach safety. That moment may last only a few seconds. But those seconds can affect the worker’s confidence, the person they support or serve, the team […]
Your Breakaway Training Day needs to have LOTS of practice time
This post is about conflict management, personal safety, and Dynamis training. A Breakaway training day from Dynamis is designed to enable public-facing staff who face the imminent threat of violence or a violent assault, giving them the appropriate attitudes and tactics for personal safety. If danger cannot be avoided any other way, staff should break […]
NHS Breakaway Training – Series Part 3
Breakaway Skills Training in the NHS and other services We’ve been asked many, many times and we deliver to many, many groups, in London and elsewhere in the UK, a program of physical disengagement from violence, which is often termed “breakaway skills training” in the sector and is usually a part of MVA Training, which […]
Feedback for Managing Child-to-Parent Violence 2019
Child-to-Parent Violence has been called ‘the last taboo’ — we have been working with the National Association of Therapeutic Parents to help foster carers and adoptive parents across the UK since 2017. Our course Managing Violent Behaviour in the Home Context can be tailored to the needs of a specific child or family. We cover […]
Fostering: Vicarious Liability and Failure to Train
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Lone Worker Course “benefitted my ability to face certain situations”
Feedback on our Lone Worker Personal Safety Training This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. “Thank you again for such an informative and practical couple of days learning about working alone in safety, which I feel has really benefited my learning and ability to face certain situations. I really feel […]
Feedback on Personal Safety for staff working in Learning Disabilities
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Thought it was really interesting, with very simple, quick and easy techniques which can be used at work. They are easy to remember too! It was a very professional experience and I learned a lot from it. The theory side helped me understand […]