Chaos, Control then Resolution: Lessons from Three Days of Functional Skills for PPST and PMVA Trainers
Training the Messy Middle: What Functional Training Reveals About Skills Under Pressure Functional Tactics Training is what most physical-skills training should be but rarely is. It is the question of how to train a learner for the messy middle of a confrontation, not the clean start or the polished end. Training physical skills is easy […]
Report – Responding to Behaviours of Concern in Irish Schools
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. That is the picture drawn by Responding to Behaviours of Concern and […]
How to NOT end up on Panorama; decision making as culture.
This post is about conflict management, personal safety, and Dynamis training. It asks a hard question: how do organisations avoid the kind of culture that ends up featured on Panorama or Dispatches? Over time, decision-making becomes culture If more team-members spoke up, more effectively and more often, how many disasters, scandals and failures could be […]
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 […]
Feedback on Distressed Behaviour In Dementia Care
Our client for this ongoing Safe Caring support package is a mid-sized care provider based in the south of England. The organisation has multiple sites and supports individuals facing the challenges of living with dementia day-to-day, offering reassurance, support and flexibility. Our most recent Managing Distressed Behaviour in Dementia Care training engagement with this long-standing […]
Care Home Manager feedback: excellent and professional
Trainer was excellent and professional and made the course enjoyable — was presented very well for all staff. Extremely likely to recommend to any colleagues looking for this training. Home Manager (RMN), Silverdale Nursing Home, October 2018 Our team delivered contextualised, scenario-based training for this nursing home, where staff look after vulnerable older people who […]
Making Decisions about Restraint in Dementia and Elderly Care
Conflict Management | Personal Safety | Dynamis Training: Making Decisions about Restraint with Older People in Care This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. This is a video produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence about restraint with older people in care services. We use it regularly on our […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #4
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. The accompanying images in this post show something that has been referred to as a “Therapeutic Floor Hold” in some training materials. It constitutes, in our view, inappropriate restraint. The (usually) vulnerable person being restrained is first taken to the floor — often […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #3
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. The image accompanying this post was apparently taken in 1907 of the City of London Police learning or demonstrating restraint techniques. They are clearly wearing jackets which suggest that there may have been input from some Japanese martial arts into the restraint techniques […]
Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences
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