A one-day workshop
This is an essential programme for members of staff whose role exposes them to aggressive or violent behaviour.
Expert trainer
Miranda has more than twenty years’ experience as an independent learning and development consultant and trainer. Much of her work is focused on the VCSE sector.
Session outline
1. What’s happening?
- Issues around us
- Risks in context
- Personal experiences
2. Safety fundamentals
- Following internal policy and procedure
- Personal safety and lone working
- Use of technology
3. Nipping issues in the bud
- Recognising early warning signs
- Avoiding causing problems for ourselves
4. Calming – Reaching – Controlling
- Tips and techniques for potentially calming a situation
- Reaching and building rapport
- Accelerants – tips on avoiding accelerating a situation
- Assertiveness techniques
- Non-verbal behaviour
- Active listening and the use of questions and distractions
- Exploring ways forward and identifying win/wins
- Avoiding the secondary argument
- Fogging
- The ‘drama triangle’
- If all else fails….
5. Harassment, stalking and on-line bulling
- What constitutes harassment and definition of stalking
- On-line bullying
- Steps to take
6. Reporting principles
- Importance of incidence reporting
- Taking care of us
- What next?