Our Director of Training, Gerard O’Dea, and Professor Chris Cushion worked with a number of experienced conflict and physical intervention trainers from NHS boards around Scotland to introduce them to the SCENA Scenario-Driven Training Approach in early March 2022. The team – already competently teaching a variety of approaches to tactics including Maybo, GSA, Functional (read more)
Create a Conflict-Ready Workplace
We help teams in a wide variety of sectors.
Since 2006 we have responded to client needs in varying sectors by applying universal principles of conflict management and personal safety while making sure our approach is relevant and appropriate.
Examples of our Clients and Services
Hospitals and Healthcare
- Conflict Audit and Training Needs Analysis
- Hospital-wide Violence Reduction Programmes
- Departmental Restraint-Reduction Initiatives
- Healthcare Security Officer Training Programmes
- Team- and Context-specific Clinical Holding courses
- Secure Transport for Mental Health Services
Social Care and Citizen Services
- Non-Escalation and De-Escalation for Frontline staff
- Lone Working for Community-based Health & Social Care
- Self-Protection and Breakaway for staff in higher-risk roles.
- Safety Awareness for Employees in Citizen Services roles
- Enforcement Officer Safety Training / Personal Safety Training
- Support for Fostering Teams and their Carers
Public-Facing Companies
- Third-Sector - Homelessness, Drug and Alcohol Support
- Housing Organisations including Supported Living
- Community Engagement Project Teams (e.g. planning/ transport)
- Utilities such as Ovo Energy and Kaluza
- Retail and Casual Dining/Hospitality staff facing higher risks.
- International Business Travel, for teams of sales or technical staff facing uncertainty and conflict.
Schools and Education
- Restraint Reduction and Positive Handling in Primary Schools
- Behaviour, Personal Safety and Protective Interventions for Secondary Schools
- Tailored Content for Alternative Provision and PRU Schools
- Specialist input for specific identified issues at Special Schools
- Advice for Colleges / Sixth Forms / Further Education
- How to engage successfully with Parents
- International Schools
International Projects
- Hospital Violence Reduction project (Dubai Health Authority)
- Mental Health Service PMVA (Health Authority Abu Dhabi)
- School Behaviour Support (Qatar)
- Positive Behaviour and Positive Handling Instructor Development (Abu Dhabi)
- School Positive Handling Training (Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar)
Law Enforcement / Security Projects
- UK College of Policing
- Scottish Prison Service College
- Serco Health Security at 11 Hospitals
- UAE Critical National Infrastructure (CNIA) Response [SWAT]
- City Enforcement Teams (Hackney, Peterborough)
Our client team is waiting to hear from you right now, to have a Talk About Training and how you can Create a Conflict-Ready Workplace
When we respond to special requests...
Scottish Prison Service :: Content
The SPS wanted input from specialists on how they could modernise the self-defence training taught to staff.
Knife & Edged Weapon :: Course
A local authority enforcement team responded to high-risk incidents which were ocurring by improving the awareness and ability respond of their officers.
Emergency Department :: Audit
A week-long observation, audit and report-submission about the causes of and flashpoints for conflict in a very large Emergency Department.
Elected Officials :: Custom Course
A UK Local Authority wanted to address the safety concerns of a group of their elected members during a period of high political tension.
Leasing Services :: Staff Safety
The vehicle leasing team from a high-street bank wanted to improve the safety of its Customer Service Representatives when chasing non-payment.
Cash in Transit
A leading company in the services sector was being targeted by criminal elements and needed to improve Personal Safety Awareness for their drivers.
Our Partners and Accreditation
Member of The Institute of
Conflict Management
Dynamis is a Quality Award Centre with the ICM, a recognised accrediting body in the U.K. for workplace training in the prevention and management of workplace violence.
European partner for Vistelar
Dynamis is the premier European Partner for Vistelar, a global consulting organisation covering training across the entire spectrum of human conflict.
Regional representative for 9 Attitudes behavioural tactics
Dynamis represents the 9 Attitudes system, a fully behavioural approach to self-protection and physical control which is based on the observable realities of physical confrontation.
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In going through the Conflict scenarios for the ED, we made sure that staff were really successful in establishing initial contact with the people, by carefully Being Alert and Decisive – noticing things about the patient or their family, by addressing those visiting or travelling with the person. We discussed perhaps opening the encounter with (read more)
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