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October 30, 2014

Children’s Care Home Physical Interventions: Course Feedback

Children’s Care Home Physical Interventions

Our principal trainer Gerard O’Dea spent four days recently with an organisation involved in the full time care, throughcare and aftercare programme for looked-after children.  The organisation wanted to focus on De-Escalation and Personal Safety skills for staff and allocated 2 days for the training course to run through topics as follows:

Understanding Behaviour and Triggers

– The processes of aggression (Kaplan and Wheeler model)
– Behavioural triggers and the SCARF model
– Primal patterns of group behaviour – ‘Status seeking displays’

Verbal Defense and Influence concepts:

– Defusing and De-escalation of aggression
– Encouraging Compliance, Cooperation and Collaboration
– Beyond Active Listening and the Persuasion Sequence

– Managing Proximity and Body Language Signals

Personal Protection

*Understanding the principles of Reasonable Force
*The Duty of Reasonable Care
*Risk Awareness in Violent Confrontations
*Reflexive Movement for Breakaway and Disengagement
*Survival, Reversal and Escape tactics

Feedback on the Children’s Care Home Physical Interventions course was excellent overall, with numerous staff commenting on the difference in relevance, appropriateness and effectiveness.

I felt that I got a lot from the course and would recommend it to other organisations. I also feel able to defend myself in certain situations. 10/10

It was enjoyable and a good balance between the theory and practical physical training. 10/10

The course was good fun, exceeded expectations! 10/10

Well delivered, fully explored the issues and gave me confidence to carry out the techniques of de-escalation and personal safety. 10/10

Excellent 2-day training course, exceeded expectations, 10/10


I feel that I am going to be much more confident in my practice, and will feel able to deal with incidents more confidently as I now know I have the ability to deal with any challenges which occur. Thank you! Exceeded Expectations

I thought the course was very well executed and had a lot of evidence and legal information to back everything up. 10/10 Exceeded Expectations

Excellent, delivered exceptionally well, 10/10 Exceeded Expectations

Great Course, Well presented A+!

Very well delivered and answers to any questions given clearly. 10/10 Exceeded Expectations

Children’s Care Home Physical Interventions Training

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Gerard O'Dea


Gerard O'Dea is the Director of Training for Dynamis. Training Advisor, Speaker, Author and Expert Witness on Personal Safety, Conflict Management and Physical Interventions, he is the European Advisor for Vistelar Conflict Management, a global programme focussing on the spectrum of human conflict.

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