No Restraint Policies – What’s Your View On Them?

Every now and then I come across an agency/organisation that has a ‘no-restraint’ policy in place and my first question is always, why do you have a policy for something that you don’t need to do? You wouldn’t have a ‘no-hard hat’ policy in a school playground during playtime because there is no foreseeable risk of something falling from the … Read more

Should We Be Resuming Physical Restraint /Intervention/PMVA Training During Covid 19?

Should We Be Resuming Physical Restraint /Intervention/PMVA Training During Covid 19?   This is a very interesting discussion thread that I started on LinkedIn regarding people’s views on resuming PI training.   A lot of very experienced PI trainers (many at the top of their profession) and good people commented on this thread so it is an excellent resources for … Read more

The Prison of The Mind

The following facts are proven to the true……. # The same thoughts always lead to the same choices. # The same choices always lead to the same actions and behaviours. # The same behaviours always create the exact same experiences # The same experience produce the same emotions. # Those same emotions influence those very same thoughts. When this happens, … Read more

What You Focus On You Get More Of

Scientific Research has shown that just one hour of focussed concentration on any concept or idea literally doubles the number of neurological connections in the brain associated with that concept or idea.⁣ ⁣ If we also consider that the average person has between sixty to seventy thousand thoughts a day but that ninety to ninety-five percent of those thoughts were … Read more