by dynamistraining | Thursday, November 21, 2019 | Breakaway Skills, Training Design
A mere 90 minutes of practice-time during one day of breakaway training? Gerard O’Dea here, the Director of Training at Dynamis. This schedule for one day of breakaway training in the image above caught my eye while I explored the ‘market’ today. ...
by dynamistraining | Tuesday, July 23, 2019 | crisis intervention, Emergency Services, Hospital Security and Conflict, knife assault, mental health, police, social contracts, Training Design
Safeguarding Employees After Incidents How Proper Post-Incident Processes can Protect your People David Blocksidge, Expert on Witness Error and Trauma: “What we’ve tried to do is incorporate what we’ve learned – and what’s known –...
by dynamistraining | Sunday, July 21, 2019 | Conflict Management, Training Design, Verbal Defense and Influence
Why we teach ‘fire drills’ and really don’t bother with ‘fire talks’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWM3IMwGFaI&t=10sVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Fire Drills: Ensuring Performance Outside of the...
by dynamistraining | Thursday, July 11, 2019 | Conflict Management, Lone Worker Personal Safety, Personal Safety, Training Design, Verbal Defense and Influence
Conflict Management Training for Utilities Engineers The Dynamis team recently completed a project to enhance the safety of the field workforce from a major UK energy utilities company. Imagine this with me for a second: “Your job is to travel out into the community,...
by dynamistraining | Monday, March 25, 2019 | Emergency Services, Personal Safety, police, Sports Science, Training Design
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/officer-safety-training-broken-so-can-we-fix-gerard-o-dea/ THE WHAT-WE-TEACH PROBLEM Early in my career, I was escorted into a room at a national-level agency and shown a single, security-restricted copy of the ‘Self-Defence’ training...
by dynamistraining | Monday, July 9, 2018 | ambulance, Client Feedback, Control and Restraint, mental health unit, Physical Interventions, PMVA Training, secure escort, Training Design
Secure Escort Training: modern, relevant, pragmatic. Hello! Gerard O’Dea here, Director of Training for Dynamis and I have been busy these past few weeks with a series of in-depth training engagements with Secure Escort and Patient Transport teams. Our secure...
