Train-the-trainer programmes: building internal trainers who can actually change practice
Train-the-trainer programmes are one of the best investments an organisation can make — when they’re done well. The internal trainer builds capability, reduces reliance on external providers, keeps training close to the real work, and creates a shared standard. When they’re done badly, the trainer is back on the floor in six months and the […]
Scenario-based training: helping people practise the work before the work becomes difficult
Scenario-based training is one of the most-used phrases in the violence-reduction and personal-safety world. It is also one of the most over-promised and under-delivered. The good version builds from observation of the real work — the flashpoints, the timing, the failure modes — and runs those scenarios until the learner’s body knows the answer. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new Train the Trainer Approach our clients love, called SCENA
SCENA is a scenario-driven train-the-trainer approach, which is based on evidence and research about learning. It gives trainers a format for delivering conflict and physical interventions training which is effective, engaging and efficient.
A Tour of our Online Training system for Conflict Management and Physical Interventions
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. A Tour of Our Online Training for Resource-Conscious Organisations Knowledge Components Delivered by Online Learning Twilight sessions can reduce the need to allocate large amounts of time and budget to Conflict De-Escalation and Physical Intervention training. Our unique online learning option allows you […]