Restraint Reduction Training Now Added to our Training Offering
A system which has helped reduce restraints from 76 in a 12 month period to just 7, increased attendance to 86.5% in a school for Looked After Children where previous attendance of individual students was often less than 10% and totally eliminated the need for exclusion.* RESTRAINT REDUCTION TRAINING with ZEB GLOVER All school settings should aim […]
A Tour of our Online Training in Positive Handling for Schools
Take a Tour of Our Online Positive Handling Training Course We have provided hundreds of schools across the country with the option to train their staff using online technology and learning systems, since 2014. Having built up a lot of experience with how to deliver training using our own unique implementation of the powerful Moodle […]
Feedback: absolutely applicable to the demands of a primary school
Dersingham primary school Nursery NurseOur instructor very knowledgeable and was happy to answer all questions and discuss any scenario that we brought up. Plus he had a good sense of humour and was very patient. Westlands community primary schoolSenco and assistant HeadteacherThe trainer was really good at assessing the needs of the group. All questions, […]
Feedback: Clear and Concise
Feedback from Special Schools on Positive Handling Training Teacher, The Centre School Gerard was an excellent trainer, tailoring the course specifically to our needs in a special school. He was very friendly, funny and made myself and everyone feel very much at ease and comfortable with the tasks set. Head of Outreach – Tunmarsh School […]
Protecting relationships when reopening schools
Hi its Gerard here from Dynamis with some great information I came across this week. I listened to an excellent webinar from our partners at Vistelar. Two of their most experienced trainers got together to talk about how we will welcome the children back to school. What caught my attention about the discussion was that […]
Outstanding Feedback from our 2019 courses
More than double, and yet the numbers all improved! Last year we collected more than double the number of learner surveys than in the previous year, to find out how we are doing. I watch these feedback surveys come in to the business every single day and watch for trends as part of our quality […]
The Context of Positive Handling and the Seven Scenarios for Schools
Interview with Vistelar about Dynamis Positive Handling Al Oelshlaeger (CEO of Vistelar) took some time recently to interview our Director of Training, Gerard O’Dea, about our Positive Handling work with schools in the UK. We have becomes quite specialist in helping education staff to deal with high-risk behaviours in schools. Here is how we look […]
Can you send a trainer to do an hour with the staff?
THE PROBLEM OF SHORT-DURATION COURSES AND THE ISSUE OF CREATING “MORE QUESTIONS” Can you send us a trainer, to do an hour of training? I recently spent a full day at one of the biggest Sixth-Form colleges in the UK, who have 3,700 students on their rolls! The assembled team – few in number – […]
Processes Protect People – after the Positive Handling Incident
Safeguarding Employees After Incidents How Proper Post-Incident Processes can Protect your People David Blocksidge, Expert on Witness Error and Trauma: “What we’ve tried to do is incorporate what we’ve learned – and what’s known – from critical-incident training and post-incident training, with regards to how an affected individual may have reacted during the event, what […]
How Incivility, rudeness and disrespect are damaging our workplaces and maybe our schools
The effects of incivility in our workplace “I studied the effects of incivility on people. What is incivility? It’s disrespect or rudeness. It includes a lot of different behaviors, from mocking or belittling someone to teasing people in ways that sting, to telling offensive jokes to texting in meetings.” Here is Christine Poarth’s TED talk […]