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 the Messy Middle: What […]
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 | dynamis training. A Breakaway training day from Dynamis is designed to enable Public-Facing staff faced with the imminent threat of violence or a violent assault with the appropriate attitudes and tactics for personal safety. If danger can not be avoided any other way, staff should […]
NHS Breakaway Training – Series Part 3
Breakaway Skills Training in the NHS and other services This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. __CONFIG_colors_palette__{“active_palette”:0,”config”:{“colors”:{“62516”:{“name”:”Main Accent”,”parent”:-1}},”gradients”:[]},”palettes”:[{“name”:”Default Palette”,”value”:{“colors”:{“62516”:{“val”:”rgb(244, 198, 53)”}},”gradients”:[]}}]}__CONFIG_colors_palette__ Call to Talk about Training Or get info by email now [tcb-script] (function() { var qs,js,q,s,d=document, gi=d.getElementById, ce=d.createElement, gt=d.getElementsByTagName, id=”typef_orm_share”, b=”https://embed.typeform.com/”; if(!gi.call(d,id)){ js=ce.call(d,”script”); js.id=id; js.src=b+”embed.js”; q=gt.call(d,”script”)[0]; q.parentNode.insertBefore(js,q) } })() […]
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 (and others) with this issue across the UK since 2017. Foster Carers and Parents Physical Interventions Workshop. Our course Managing Violent Behaviour in the Home Context, for Foster […]
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 “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 it is the best training I have ever had and I hope […]
Feedback on Personal Safety for staff working in Learning Disabilities
“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 more about regulations and what is in place, this was very useful. […]
Screech Alarms and Lone Worker Protection
Lone Worker Protection and the Screech Alarm – Beware Bystander Apathy! Using a personal safety “screech”-type alarm might be useful as part of an overall escape strategy in Lone Worker Protection, but it shouldn’t be a psychological crutch. What is the real utility of the siren on a screech alarm? to tell people that you […]