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At the Crisis Prevention Institute, we often say that we can’t control other people’s behaviour—we can only control our own. We can choose how we react to other people’s actions and how we respond to our own emotions. Our anger doesn’t have to be a catalyst for conflicts and damage to relationships.
 

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Amanda Brady-Fujita discusses the importance of being trauma-informed.  

Blog | Here are CPI’s 10 Tips on how to be trauma-informed

Blog | As we eagerly await the release of Safety Intervention 3^rd Edition, we look back at how CPI MAPA has evolved over the years

Blog | CPI Professional Trainer Susy McCleery reflects on the use of negative language and how we can choose to create a more positive culture within our organisations.
 

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Mien Bhagwandin talks about the most effective way to deliver bad news. 
 

Case Study | We interviewed Vicki Robinson from Hamilton North School on how CPI training provided consistent practice for when students display risk behaviour.

Blog | We can communicate in many ways when we are delivering our training; verbally, paraverbally and non-verbally. CPI trainer Steve Martin looks at how Certified Instructors and other trainers can become better at communicating.

Blog | What is CPI's Crisis Development Model^SM and how can it be used to prevent or de-escalate the situation.

Professor Joy Duxbury, chair of the Restraint Reduction Network in England, explores where to start with creating an organisational restraint reduction plan.

Blog | We give you five simple tips that can help when trying to diffuse a situation with a difficult person.
 

Blog | Leverage these CPI training programme lone worker safety tips from our US colleagues to keep your employees safe.

Blog | How do you help staff learn the strategies taught in training? Everyone’s learning style is unique, but most benefit from a mix of these powerful methods.

Blog | CPI trainer Laura West looks at why it's important that we, specifically when talking about neurodiversity, try and make the right choice of words and terms.

Blog | One of our Global Professional Instructors based in Australia, Paula Elliot, talks about her role, what she likes about it and what it's like working for CPI within the training team.

Blog | One of CPI's Global Professional Instructors in Australia, Paula Elliot, knows first-hand the importance of organisations, wherever they are in the world, having a Certified Instructor and the benefits of CPI's train-the-trainer model.

Blog | Global Professional Instructor Huw Lloyd writes about his experiences, from his perspective as a CPI trainer, of his first encounter with our Clinical Holding training.

Blog | Francis Florencio reflects on the importance of children and young people’s mental health as we head into Children's Mental Health Week.

Blog | CPI Global Professional Manager Susy McCleery looks at trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences and how we can support and understand those who have experienced them.

Blog | Educators play a key role in helping children re-acclimatise to the classroom. But post-pandemic, there is a growing need for them to help alleviate parental anxiety around school transitions too.

CASE STUDY | We interviewed Jenny Finlay from Borilla Community Kindergarten Queensland to find out more about how CPI training reduced dangerous behaviour and boosted staff morale.

Guidance for those making the transition from MAPA to CPI's Safety and / or Verbal Intervention training programmes.

Case Study | We interviewed Sue Ramsay from Auckland District Health Board to find out more about how CPI training programmes provide strategies and techniques for all healthcare professionals.

Blog | Our Global Professional Instructor Katharine Sell explores the importance of making your own mental health a priority amidst a cost of living crisis and other factors.

CPI's top ten de-escalation tips are everyday strategies for crisis prevention and a way of seeing humanity as full of potential, not hopelessly problematic.

Telling someone they can’t do something, or talking to them in a certain tone, will only escalate an issue. Here’s how to reduce problems.

CPI's new Dementia Capable Care training programme is based on an enriched model of care and support.

Bridging collaborative classroom design elements with CPI behaviour management techniques.

CPI trainer Simon Rogers looks at some of the useful tools trainers can use to ensure their style of training suits and benefits everyone.

Blog | Just some of the reasons to choose CPI training and become a CPI Certified Instructor / trainer whether you work in education, healthcare or social care.

Blog | The aim of this blog is to give you some basic verbal strategies that you could think about using when faced with an individual in distress.

Interview with Richard Parson regarding MAPA and Community living in New Zealand.

A COVID update from CPI regardingquestions to Frontline health and social care staff

COVID-19 Message from Martyn Dadds MD of CPI International offering guidance to Certificated instructors.

A blog about Thinking before you speak and choosing your words carefully.

A short blog inviting you to tell us your success stories of CPI training.

Why Renewals and Refreshers are important for yourself and your staff in your organisation.

A guide on how to get support you may require after undertaking CPI training, and the approaches you can administer in your organisation. 

A blog on how to avoid power struggles that can occur. Guest authored by Terry Vittone. 

A case study of Our lady of La Vang, a school that provides specialist education for students with intellectual disabilities

A case study of Ravenswood School and how MAPA and Pivotal MAPA helped them, Co-written by Mark Senior.

The Integrated Experience is defined as the way behaviour impacts behaviour—how my behavioural choices can impact yours. CPI training emphasises that to positively inform this Integrated Experience, you must understand that the only behaviour you can control is your own.

The powerful limit setting techniques found in the MAPA® programme will help you avoid and de-escalate crisis situations.

De-Escalation Tip of the Day regarding Non verbal communication

When we talk about finding real solutions to workplace violence, we tend to lose sight of the violence that hospital employees deal with daily.

How can you intervene with challenging student behavior? Get tips for safe, respectful, and effective verbal intervention.