De Escalating Conflict for a UAE Hospital
In our 10th year of visiting and training hospital teams across the Gulf, we continue to uncover new insights about the flashpoints for conflict — and the best ways staff can prevent and manage it. Here’s what we learned on our most recent trip to a UAE hospital. Training Multicultural Hospital Teams Working with the […]
Dynamis the Context of Positive Handling in Schools
Conflict Management | Personal Safety | Dynamis Training: Understanding the Context of Positive Handling This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. This presentation for school administrators explores the background and context of positive handling in schools — covering the key issues facing educators and leaders today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syaJxRDUjzk 💡 Key takeaway: […]
Paraphrasing to Defuse the Very Distressed Child in your classroom
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Gerard O’Dea proposes an idea for teaching staff: using paraphrasing as a habitual response to defuse very distressed children in the classroom. Read the full article at Positive Handling — Behaviour Management. Watch the training video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWfVkLzUZ-k — Dynamis Training This guide on […]
Positive Handling International Schools GCC Qatar UAE Doha AbuDhabi Dubai and beyond
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Visit the full article: Positive Handling in International Schools — GCC, Qatar, UAE, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and beyond. Dynamis recently provided our Positive Behaviour Management and Positive Handling training course to international schools across the GCC region. Watch the accompanying training video: […]
The context and risks of Positive Handling in Schools
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Positive handling in schools sits at the intersection of duty of care, legal obligation, and day-to-day classroom reality. Staff are expected to manage challenging behaviour safely but without proper context and training, the risks multiply quickly. Conflict Management | Personal Safety | Dynamis […]
Breakaway Training: Judges Comments in Dementia Care Assault Case
Breakaway Training: A Judge’s Warning from a Dementia Care Case This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia. In just four months since arriving, he had committed 13 acts of aggression and at least 5 attempts at serious acts of aggression […]
Training Lone Workers: Who should go on the visit?
Training Lone Workers: Who Should Go on the Visit? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Training lone workers sometimes means making sure they carefully decide whether a visit should go ahead — and how many people should attend. Sometimes, client history means no visit at all. In a rough-cut […]
Lone Working Staff Safety through Supervision and Monitoring
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Director of Training and Lone Working Staff Safety expert Gerard O’Dea discusses a key story about the tragic loss of a lone worker in the area of social care and home care. The issues of lone worker supervision, diary management, and monitoring of […]
Keeping Lone Workers Safe: Information Sharing
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. In this rough-cut video clip from a recent Lone Worker Personal Safety Training programme, our Director of Training and Keeping Lone Workers Safe expert trainer Gerard O’Dea discusses one important case where a lone worker was seriously attacked by a person who had […]
VIDEO: Positive Handling in Schools
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Positive Handling in schools is about more than physical restraint — it’s about keeping everyone safe while preserving dignity. Schools come to us when they’re dealing with challenging behaviours, and they need practical, legally-sound strategies that work in real classrooms. Why Schools Choose […]