Restraint with children: prevention, dignity, and the duty to get it right
This post is about restraint with children. Any use of restraint with a child is serious. Even when it is lawful. Even when it prevents harm. Even when staff act with care and good intentions. The child is in distress. The adult is in a position of trust. The intervention may last seconds, but the […]
Report – Managing Behaviours of Concern and Workplace Risk in UK Schools
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. For many educators, exposure to verbal and physical aggression, supporting children in acute distress, and responding to crisis situations has become a recurring — and often under-acknowledged — part of the job. This thematic review, “Managing Behaviours of Concern and Workplace Risk in […]
Report – Responding to Behaviours of Concern in Irish Schools
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Behaviours of concern are no longer isolated incidents in Irish schools. For many educators, exposure to verbal and physical aggression, supporting children in acute distress, and responding to crisis situations has become a recurring — and often under-acknowledged — part of the job. […]
Positive handling for schools: safety, dignity and confidence when children are in distress
This post is about positive handling for schools. Positive handling is one of the most sensitive areas of school practice. When a child is distressed, unsafe, or at risk of harming themselves or others, staff may need to intervene physically. Sometimes that contact is light guidance. Sometimes it is supportive holding. In rare situations, it […]
Managing aggressive patients in the UAE
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Dynamis Director of Training Gerard O’Dea recently undertook our first post-lockdowns trip to the UAE in order to facilitate workshops and training for our hospital and school clients there. It was so good to be back with our colleagues and customer Here he […]
Classroom Management for SEND Restraint Reduction
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. “Hi, my name is Katie Dill, and I am a special education teacher from Winnebago School District in Northern Illinois. I chose Vistelar as a teacher in the educational field because this is “how we do things”. In the professional field we know […]
Visit to Schools in Ireland to help with Positive Handling Issues
Our team just returned from a training visit to deliver positive handling training for schools in Ireland who asked for our help with specific issues they are facing with special-needs pupils in mainstream settings. Although historically there has been little guidance from the Dept for Education and Skills on these issues, schools really do need […]
Positive Handling for Special Needs School and Children with Learning Disabilities – feedback
Dynamis recently delivered a series of trainings for a special needs school in London which looks after children in primary and secondary education who are living with significant learning disabilities. After a pre-training site visit to discuss the training needs and the environment of teaching with both the Assistant Head and the Executive Head […]
More than 15 Schools in UAE introduced to Dynamis Positive Handling
Gerard just returned from an extended trip to the UAE where Dynamis trained approximately 150 staff in both Abu Dhabi and Dubai institutions in our approach to Positive Handling which was tailored to the UAE environment, based on our almost 10-year training history in the emirates. Schools came from outlying areas such as Ruwais, Ras […]
One Voice – Behaviour Management Tip for Schools
This are the goals of our Behaviour Management course for schools: We train a group of your staff to practice the attitudes and necessary verbalisation skills required to create an environment of collaborative behaviour management which is safe and secure and promotes good learning habits. It is a method of dealing with the relationships between people […]