Now Available: Reframing Behaviour, Our New Education Platform

Behaviour Management, De‑escalation and Conflict Training for your Organisation

Behaviour training that empowers organisations and staff alike to create safe and respectful environments.

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Sectors We Work With

  • Health Care

    Whether your health care setting, our training programmes offer trauma-informed and person-centred training for all health care staff, from frontline and nursing teams through to reception and support staff.

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How it Works

Our Training Approach

Once you have registered with us, our team trains your staff and equip them with the necessary tools to effectively teach your organisation. This is our training framework — train-the-trainer — that turns employees into in-house behaviour leads.

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Customer Success Stories

Success Stories: Positive Outcome, Safer Staff

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Education

Interview with Vicki Robinson, Associate Principal of Hamilton North School

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

Auckland District Health Board

Learn how CPI training programmes provide strategies and techniques for all health care professionals in this customer success story for Auckland District Health Board.
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Education

Our Lady of La Vang

Our Lady of La Vang provides specialist education for students with intellectual disabilities
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Training for Every Risk Level

Most Popular Training Programmes

Our training helps staff prepare for and reduce conflicts, creating a safer workplace.

Verbal Intervention

This programme focuses on prevention using verbal de-escalation skills.

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Trauma-informed training.
Prevention and verbal de-escalation skills.

Safety Intervention Foundation

Formerly known as MAPA, this training teaches staff de-escalation skills, non-restrictive and restrictive interventions.

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Trauma-informed training.
Prevention and verbal de-escalation skills.
Disengagement safety techniques.
Risk assessment framework.
Physical intervention techniques.

Safety Intervention Advanced/Advanced & Emergency

Formerly known as MAPA, the programme focuses on more complex or extreme risk behaviours.

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Trauma-informed training.
Prevention and verbal de-escalation skills.
Additional non-restrictive and restrictive interventions for risk behaviour.
Explicit focus on safety intervention for extreme risk behaviour (including floor holding and other emergency interventions).
Disengagement safety techniques.
Risk assessment framework.
Physical intervention techniques.
Expanded decision-making skills.
Introduces the Brøset Violence Checklist.

Full Training Suites by Sector

Discover our training programmes relevant for your sector.

Health Care
Training programmes for health care professionals and support staff to create safe and trauma-informed environments.
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Social Services
Training programmes designed to empower all staff, from carers to social workers, to create safe and trauma-informed environments.
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Aged Care
Training programmes designed to support all staff, from care workers to nurses and lifestyle coordinators in creating safe, trauma-informed environments in aged care.
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Education
Training programmes for schools to create safe and positive environments.
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Other Service Industries
Training programmes for service-oriented professionals to manage and de-escalate disruptive situations and reduce conflicts.
Other Service Industries Programmes

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General

Introducing CPI’s 3rd Edition Training

Learn how CPI’s Safety Intervention 3rd Edition training supports the real needs of Certified Instructors and their end learners.
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General

Why Choose CPI Training?

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.
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General

Here’s How You Can Manage Your Anger

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.
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