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March 3, 2010 / News / Darren Good

The top ten mistakes in conflict resolution

Not listening effectively and butting in whilst the other person is speaking – I think this is one of the most underestimated things in conflict resolution. You must listen to the other person’

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February 26, 2010 / Armed Forces, Martial Arts, Violence / Darren Good

The Royal Marines should improve their unarmed combat training

The Royal Marines should improve their unarmed combat training

This week I found this interesting article on our boys being trained by the US marines. There is a trend in the United States to seek out new the best martial arts systems and incorporate them into th

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February 18, 2010 / News / Darren Good

Understanding legislation is now a must for conflict resolution trainers

I have been pretty busy during the last few weeks carefully up skilling myself and trying to become a better trainer. You might remember I wrote about my growing desire to improve my personal developm

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February 15, 2010 / Martial Arts, Violence / Chris Norton

Shocking video examples of attacks on police officers

Here on the blog, Darren talks a lot about conflict resolution training and also about people working in the public sector being attacked by violent aggressors. He often looks at how these people can

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February 5, 2010 / Conflict Resolution, Violence / Darren Good

The NHS shouldn’t use Conflict Resolution Training as a tick box exercise.

I noticed a story this week that really saddened me to the core, the The Mirror’s article read: A charity was fined £30,000 yesterday for failing to protect a care worker stabbed to death by a

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January 25, 2010 / Conflict Resolution, News, Violence / Darren Good

Self defence law change – People should be allowed to protect their homes

In my conflict resolution training sessions I regularly teach people how to talk themselves out of a situation or read someone before they become aggressive. Sometimes unfortunately a situation can ju

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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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January 11, 2010 / Conflict Resolution, Door Supervisor Training, Good Sense News, News / Darren Good

2010 and what it means for GoodSense Conflict Resolution Training

A belated Happy New Year to you all, 2009 was a great year for me and GoodSense Conflict Resolution Training. Overall we managed to win quite a lot of new clients and our business grew by more than 40

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December 23, 2009 / News / Chris Norton

Violence is officially down at football matches

I have just read an encouraging article on Dash.com. Apparently the Home Office has reported today that the amount of football-related arrests for violence fell slightly last season. Dash.com reports:

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December 18, 2009 / Conflict Resolution, News, NHS / Chris Norton

Paramedic crews shouldn’t need conflict resolution training but sadly they do

Hi my name is Chris Norton, I am the managing director of Dead Dinosaur and a serial blogger. I work with Darren on a few things and whilst he is sunning himself in Australia I promised him I would wr

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