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June 7, 2010 / Body Language, Personal Safety, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Attack rituals – We need to trust our instincts if we are to avoid being attacked

All killers go through an attack ritual before they start their attack – I have talked at length about these types of rituals before on the blog. In my previous post I talked about the three types o

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May 19, 2010 / Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Positional Asphyxia and how not to restrain someone?

There was a sad story in the media this week about a shoplifter who unfortunately died in police custody. These stories are always sad and I don’t know how the person in this particular case died bu

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May 5, 2010 / Prison Service, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Prison officers deserve regular good quality self defence training

The recent shocking and violent attack in Armley prison on a prison officer tells me that the officers are still very vulnerable in what is still a very dangerous job. He was reportedly looking after

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April 19, 2010 / Conflict Management, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Telephone tips: Conflict resolution on the telephone?

I am writing this post to hopefully pass on some advice on how to deal with conflict on the telephone. I was giving a conflict resolution training course in London last week, so this is still very fre

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April 12, 2010 / Body Language, News, Personal Safety, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Why I believe the G20 officer got away with it!

I heard this story on the news the other day and to be honest it’s not that surprising this police officer was cleared of the charges. Even if it may be viewed by an outsider as being over zealous o

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April 8, 2010 / Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, Tips / Darren Good

Best practice in conflict resolution strategies from my trip to Holland

I was away at the European Network of Trainers in the Management of Aggression (ENTMA) conference in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago and whilst I was there I saw lots of demonstrations and examples of

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March 22, 2010 / Personal Safety, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Seven top tips to help protect women against being attacked

Seven top tips to help protect women against being attacked

In the sad wake of the Claudia Lawrence anniversary I thought now would be a good time to highlight some personal safety tips for ladies that do a lot of networking or act as lone workers, basically p

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January 14, 2010 / Conflict Resolution, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Our attitude to violence and conflict resolution needs to change if we are to stop it on the high street

I found an interesting article online this week that made me think the latest British Retail Consortium's (BRC) Retail Crime Survey 2009, was published and has revealed that the amount of violence and

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November 2, 2009 / Body Language, POLITE Model, Tips / Darren Good

The three different attack rituals to look out for

All attackers have rituals that they go through just before they make an attack. They use a pre-defined order, a process, by which to attack and this is often referred to as Modus Operandi, which is a

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September 3, 2009 / POLITE Model, Tips / Darren Good

Listening is very important when resolving a conflict

Here is my third post on the POLITE system I have developed for conflict resolution training. So far we have discussed what the P and O stand for in the POLITE system. Just as a reminder POLITE is an

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