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Blog | A CPI expert gives their advice on how to build relationships and trust with pupils from difficult home backgrounds.

Blog | A CPI trainer addresses the common problem of how to manage consistent low level disruption in the classroom.

Blog | A CPI expert answers a teacher's question around behaviour management award systems and seating plans.
 

Blog | CPI’s experts answer your questions on education. From behaviour management to fostering a positive classroom culture we’ve got all the answers.

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Steve Martin considers the importance of first aid training for staff who use physical interventions.
 

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Huw Lloyd gives his take on the recent study by The University of Roehampton which highlights violence against teaching assistants.
 

Blog | As we approach Anti-Bullying Week, CPI Global Professional Instructor Vicki Conway considers what bullying is, why people bully and what we can do about it.
 

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Michelle Dewsall looks at the impact of precipitating factors on men’s mental health
 

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Huw Lloyd considers the increasing use of mobile phones and other technology in schools over the past 50 years.

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.

Blog | CPI trainer Adam Mellor looks at CPI's Opt-Out Sequence, which is essentially the art of knowing when to hold and when to let go to ensure the safety of everyone.

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 | September is World Alzheimer's Month. Our Global Professional Instructor Mien Bhagwandin talks about her first experiences of dealing with someone living with dementia and how to deal with the changing behaviour.

Blog | That hour or so before your attendees arrive is crucial to get prepared for the day. CPI Global Professional Instructor Helen Calvert provides some guidance on the things to consider when preparing a training room.

Blog | One of our Global Professional Instructors gives their advice on how to record an occurrence of risk behaviour so others can better understand the staff response.

Blog | Global Professional Instructor Alison Grimley provides some tips on how to ensure adults are able to maximise their learning when on any training programme.

Blog | Our Director of Training Chris Sheehan talks about his experiences of delivering Clinical Holding training over the past couple of years.
 

Blog | When staff know how to implement the appropriate intervention at the right time, it can improve staff confidence, morale as well as patient safety.

CPI’s blog discusses how the influence of precipitating factors can lead to aggressive behaviour.

Blog | A guest blog from a teacher who wants to encourage fellow teachers to see the learner behind the behaviour and, in turn, help to build their resilience.

Blog | Reflective practice in teaching can show how you’ve responded to past successes and challenges in the classroom and help prepare you for the new school year.

Blog | CPI Director of Training Maria Taylor looks at anxiety, the first level of the Crisis Development Model, and how to ensure the staff response is right.

Blog | Winning over the hearts and minds of colleagues will make the implementation of a new behaviour  strategies, policy or procedure so much more efficient and effective.

Blog | CPI trainer Vicki Conway looks at how we can unwind and look after our own mental health at the end of a stressful day.

Blog | How to recognise and support neurodivergent learners in your classroom.

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 | For World Book Day, Global Professional Instructor Huw Lloyd takes a look at how some of the schools he trains in make the most of the event and stick to its true meaning.

Blog | Global Professional Instructor Mike Sumner explores how, using the concept of the Intergrated Experience, you can boost your mental resilience. 

Blog | To coincide with Mental Health Nurses Day, we're resharing a previous blog focusing on a UNISON report examining mental health staff and services in 2017. The pre-pandemic results indicated a sector under pressure.

Blog | Find out more about the 6 Core Strategies and how CPI's training can support your organisation in implementing them.

Case Study | CPI has been training instructors at Gwynedd & Isle of Anglesey County Council for 10 years. Those trainers have then trained others within a variety of schools from small rural primary schools to much larger secondary schools - each with fantastic results.

Blog | Just some of the reasons to choose CPI training and become a CPI Certified Instructor

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

Blog | There is no magic strategy or silver bullet for improving behaviour. Focus on prevention and creating a culture in which problem behaviour is less likely to occur.

Blog | Looking into our own behaviours can help us address the things we say and how we say we say them (paraverbals) and how they contribute to the crisis behaviour of others.

Blog | Post crisis, it's important that both the individual and members of staff feel supported as no one will want the situation to escalate again.

Blog | CPI's top tips on how to listen effectively.

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.

Blog | Statutory guidance for NHS organisations in England and police forces in England and Wales underlines the need for all training that includes restrictive physical interventions to comply with the RRN Training Standards. Blog with links to Standards and guidance.

CPI's Lucy Parker tells us what to expect from CPI instructor training if you haven't done anything like this before.

Global Professional Instructor Cathy Duncan focuses on One Kind Word, the theme of this year's anti-bullying week.

Blog | Take some time each week to be thankful and show thanks to those around you whether they be colleagues, learners, patients, service users or friends and family. #ThankYouThursday

Understanding levels of behaviour and what training is right for your organisation or school.

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

Managing behavioural risks post-Covid.

Blog covering five myths that can hinder a positive culture in your school.

Training needs to be engaging, insightful, accessible but most importantly it needs to be actionable and sustainable.

CPI’s trauma element within our core training programmes covers how trauma impacts people and how to be trauma-responsive.

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

Wrist Flexion Techniques (WFT) are pain inducing with increased risk of injury.

Teachers have got to prioritise their own wellbeing to avoid burn out.

Fostering a positive culture within all classrooms

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

A few ideas on how to support carers and their dementia patients throughout lockdown.

Tolerance in education.

Be prepared for the RRN Standards | Access our free webinar.

Three ways to empower young people to establish a strong, authentic sense of self.

Being challenged by Covid-19 has allowed us to reflect on the important question of why we are doing something.

When young people feel attached to their school, they are less likely to exhibit disruptive behaviour or emotional distress.

Training at St Andrews Healthcare during Covid

Blog | If we’re going to have any chance of developing and sustaining a culture of positive behaviour, it is vital we do everything in our power to embed those consistencies so even on the last day of term they are seen, heard and felt by everyone.

The start of this school year is going to be a very different one for children, parents and staff.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare and CPI training.

Virtual training insight from CPI's Global Professional Instructors.

The new RRN training standards mean a whole organisation change.

Covid-19 CPI training updates

COVID-19 Message from Martyn Dadds MD, CPI International.

Shadow Schools Minister visits CPI offices.

Post training support.

Where to start with creating a restraint reduction plan.

Case study | Ravenswood School & CPI training

CPI Case Studies - Showcase your training success.

There’s a deep connection between patient and staff safety... and an easy-to-overlook way to improve it that can actually cut costs.

Headteacher Ali Bellaby shares how CPI training serves mentally and medically challenged pupils in her unit.

Dementia can be a very unpredictable condition – you will have better peace of mind by having these details dealt with.

The Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill, introduced in November 2017, continues to be modified to be an effective guidance for patient safety.

Once a person with dementia exhibits challenging behaviour, it takes a mix of empathy and skill to maintain everyone’s wellbeing.

A CPI Global Professional Manager shares tips to mindfully make the world a better place, paired with CPI resources that can help you implement these tips into your everyday life.

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

De-escalation tip 10

It's important to be thoughtful in deciding which rules are negotiable, and which are not.

Stock your toolbox with these tips, resources, and perspectives on using your CPI training at work and home.

Redirect challenging behavior and restore focus to the issue at hand.

Sometimes just being present can be a powerful force of a calm in a crisis.

Keeping your cool in a crisis might be easier said than done, but it can facilitate real healing for a person in need.

A former prosecutor’s tip for connecting with jurors is readily adaptable to helping calm an individual in crisis.

Defuse tension in a crisis by taking a Supportive Stance℠.

Mindful compassion can take a situation from conflict to connection.

Lesley Kandola recently visited Singapore to deliver a MAPA Foundation Course. Here she shares her experiences and what she learnt along the way.

Launched in January 2016, St Andrew’s Healthcare’s MAPA (Management of Actual and Potential Aggression) programme has now seen more than 1,800 clinical practitioners complete the course.

The National Development Team for Inclusion have released new guidance for staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance.

“The course really underpinned my own values of working in a patient-centred and least-restrictive manner,” writes nurse Gemma Willingham-Storr.

The families of people with mental illness are calling for more training for both police officers and NHS staff.

Training is essential for all nursing staff who treat vulnerable adults.