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 […]
Safeguarding Employees After Incidents
When a serious incident happens at work, the focus is often on the event itself — what went wrong, who did what, and how to prevent it next time. But what happens to the staff member at the centre of it? David Blocksidge, an expert on witness error and trauma, has spent years studying what […]
How to practice conflict management skills
How to practice conflict management skills How to practice conflict management skills? – we are often asked by our learners how they can get better at managing conflict. Gary Klugiewicz: “Within the Vistelar Conflict Management program, we practice what we call emotionally safe, performance driven instruction. And people say, “What is that all about?” Well, […]
Conflict Management Training for Utilities Engineers
The Challenge: Safety in the Field The Dynamis team recently completed a project to enhance the safety of the field workforce from a major UK energy utilities company. Imagine this for a moment: “Your job is to travel out into the community, enter a completely unknown person’s home and spend 2–3 hours there installing equipment. […]
Is Officer Safety Training broken? If so, is there a way to fix it?
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 programme which was being taught to at-risk staff. My sense of anticipation before opening that document caused my heart to race. You can only imagine my disappointment, however, when I discovered […]
Mental Health Escort Training: excellent Feedback from Frontline and Management
Gerard O’Dea here, Director of Training for Dynamis. I’ve been busy these past few weeks with a series of in-depth training engagements with Secure Escort and Patient Transport teams across the United Kingdom. Our remit has been to help these teams provide safe, professional, and compassionate transport services for people in the care and custody […]
Managing Distressed Behaviour in Older People: recent feedback for Safe Holding
Real feedback from dementia care staff “The Managing Distressed Behaviour in Older People training was informative & the practical sessions were very useful to learn. I have gained a good knowledge on how to manage difficult or challenging behaviour within my job role.” — Care Assistant, Dementia Unit We recently carried out a series of […]
Fostering: Vicarious Liability and Failure to Train
Foster carers and conflict training Since the supreme court judgement on Armes v Nottinghamshire County Council, it is now clear that local authorities have vicarious liability for the actions of foster parents. Despite persistently poor advice from many supervising social workers on this point, foster carers ARE given powers to use force under law and […]