Ligature Awareness & Room Searching: Online Course
This post is about ligature awareness training. For staff in health and social care, mental health, supported living and similar settings, the risk that a person in their care may attempt self-harm by ligature is serious and real. Prevention depends on staff who can see their environment differently, recognise risk and act calmly and confidently. […]
PMVA Training UK — What It Is and Who Needs It | Dynamis
PMVA Training: What It Is, Who Needs It, and How to Choose a Provider This post is about pmva training uk —. PMVA stands for Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression. That phrase matters because the first word is prevention. Too often, PMVA training is treated as if it only means physical intervention training. […]
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 […]
Increasingly Complex Scenario Driven Training #conflictmanagement #deescalationtraining
Traditional training often falls short when it matters most. Staff learn techniques in isolation, practise decontextualised drills, and then struggle to apply those skills when facing real workplace challenges. There is a better way. Scenario-driven training puts learners directly into authentic situations that mirror the complexities they will face on the job. Rather than teaching […]
Who should we send on the training?
In large-scale organisations, determining who the right people are to send on conflict resolution, personal safety or physical interventions training programmes is a critical decision. Get it wrong and you spend budget on training that doesn’t transfer; get it right and every pound reaches the people who need it most. This article offers insight into […]
What is Mental Health Secure Escort Training?
This post is about conflict management, personal safety, and Dynamis training. Our staff writer Vanessa recently talked with Senior Trainer Zeb Glover about our Mental Health Secure Escort Training — what it is, who it’s for, and how it’s run. What is secure escort or mental health transport work? Dynamis secure transport clients are often […]
NHS Trainers Shocked by gains from Scenario Approach
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Our Director of Training, Gerard O’Dea, and Professor Chris Cushion worked with a number of experienced conflict and physical intervention trainers from NHS boards around Scotland to introduce them to the SCENA Scenario-Driven Training Approach in early March 2022. The team – already […]
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 […]
Becoming an effective PMVA Trainer
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Probably the most important decision a company makes when it wants to change the culture of their workplace is this: Which personalities will lead the training effort? In this case, the organisation chose three of their most senior carers, who had all […]