What Council Staff Actually Want From De-escalation Training (And What One Council Told Us)
Local authority teams don’t ask for de-escalation training because it’s fashionable. They ask because the work has changed. More complexity. More distress. More volatility. More lone work. More scrutiny after incidents. And a growing gap between what policy says and what happens in the moment on a doorstep, in a waiting area, in a respite […]
NHS Advanced De-escalation Masterclass (ADM) — what it is, and what staff said afterwards
A specialist mental health ward does not need reminding that de-escalation matters. This NHS De-escalation Masterclass (ADM) is built around the first minute of agitation — the requests that land badly, the boundaries that feel like slights, the small steps into personal space that tip a conversation into something else. It is not a refresher […]
Transformative De-escalation Training Receives High Praise from Council Staff
Staff members from a UK County Council have praised the effectiveness and practical value of de-escalation training delivered by Dynamis, with participants highlighting the transformative impact on their professional practice. The comprehensive training session included managers, social workers, and care professionals from various departments. It received outstanding feedback for its practical approach and relevance to […]
Exceeding expectations: A deep dive into training excellence
As 2024 draws to a close and in an era where professional development is crucial, we reflect on what makes training programmes truly impactful. Recent feedback data from Dynamis training programmes reveals important insights — and the picture is encouraging. Here’s a summary of what participants told us. Do Dynamis’ conflict management programmes meet expectations? […]
Restraint Reduction Outcomes
Restraint Reduction OutcomesThe new trainer team for this service began rolling out their own programme (a four-day, full-spectrum course for their LD/MH setting) to their staff in October. This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. By December, they had seen dramatic restraint reduction outcomes in key indicators such as […]
Breakaway training in care
Breakaway training in care – an example of positive outcomes Conflict Management | Personal Safety | Dynamis Training: At one point early in the training programme it becomes important to look at physical self-protection training, especially if the service data shows that some service users, when distressed, target staff with violence by grabbing, hitting or […]
social contract in restraint reduction
This post is about conflict management, personal safety and Dynamis training. What happens when people can’t predict with any certainty how an organisation will respond to their transgression of an agreement? If a social contract is broken, and the consequences could slide on a scale from ‘nothing’ to ‘serious’ — how many people would take […]
Training needs analysis for restraint reduction
This post is about conflict management, personal safety and Dynamis training. It is an excerpt from our 18-page case study about how we achieved significant restraint reduction outcomes with this training programme. To read the case study and learn about the project, please visit our Restraint Reduction page. In line with our accredited quality assurance […]
Feedback on Distressed Behaviour In Dementia Care
Our client for this ongoing Safe Caring support package is a mid-sized care provider based in the south of England. The organisation has multiple sites and supports individuals facing the challenges of living with dementia day-to-day, offering reassurance, support and flexibility. Our most recent Managing Distressed Behaviour in Dementia Care training engagement with this long-standing […]
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 […]