Mark Dawes' Podcasts

In this podcast I answer the above question and to do so I have to take you back a number of years when I was on a speaking tour around the UK when someone raised their hand and told me that I shouldn’t be telling people what the can do. There are also other reasons too, which are consistent with my personal beliefs and values and I believe that if you live your life true to what you truly value t...

I received an email today that asked me the above question and having checked this out fully before answering it I (with the permission of the person who sent it to me) thought I'd share it with you in the hope that it may help some of you out there.

In this podcast I talk about what our life's purpose is and the difference between happiness and pleasure. For example, how many of us know someone who has everything but are unhappy. I also talk about conventional truth vs ultimate truth. The fact of the matter is we are all connected. Our actions affect every living organism out there. We are all part of one race - the human race.  Have a g...

This scientific fact will literally blow your mind. Every breath you take connects all live, past present and future, so we all all connected in a way that transcends space and time. Have a great day.

We all have an inner critic inside ourselves which (for some people) is mainly negative and destructive, but because the voice is inside our head we have the power and capacity to change it, to make it positive and constructive and if we do that we can begin to show self-compassion to ourselves, which can have amazing benefits. Have a great day.

Occam’s razor, also called law of economy or law of parsimony, is a principle stated by the Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1285–1347/49) that “plurality should not be posited without necessity.”  If we expect a member of staff to go into a potentially violent and aggressive situation with the aim of controlling and restraining another human being for the purpose of keeping everyone...

In this podcast I talk about how our thoughts become things. How brain plasticity works and why this creates the behaviours we have and, more importantly, how you can change your life by changing the way you choose to think.

Someone kindly left a comment under my last Podcast entitled 'The Importance of Mind Training in Dealing With Conflict Situations' about the importance of visualisation which prompted me to do this one. The fact is we don't actually see with our eyes, we see with our mind. In short our everyday experience and our life is a projection of our memories (good or bad) and our anticipations (what we exp...

I was listening to a guided meditation by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh on 'Right thinking, right words and right actions' which became the motivation for this podcast on Monday morning because the teaching highlighted how we all become the sum of our own actions. Enjoy.

Resilience has been described as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, and we have all had our fair share of those during the last year. One of the great benefits of practicing mindfulness and awareness is that we become more flexible and more resilient. But meditation can also be useful in more dynamic ways. Meditation can help you do more than slow down your racing thoughts-it can h...

As we enter our third national lockdown for the next six weeks many people will be worried, especially those of us who have businesses that we depend on and that worry will be compounded by the hourly news and media coverage that will focus primarily on the negatives of the lockdown and this current pandemic. But should we be grateful instead?  A recent message from Afghanistan that I want to...

Lots of staff go on conflict management and communication skills courses where they are taught skills and techniques on how to manage conflict being presented by another person. But what about staff? How do we expect a member of staff to control their behavior and not get triggered themselves?  In short, how do we help staff respond appropriately as opposed to reacting without thinking? In ad...

Handcuffs and Covid in 2021 - Physical restraint is a hazardous activity in it's own right, and now with the covid infection and death rates rising once again combined with the rising tide of violence against staff, I want to broach the subject of handcuffing and how handcuffs and other forms of mechanical restraint devices can help reduce the risk to all concerned in a restraint situation. I'd be...

Happy New Equanimity New Year to you all. Now I know social media will be awash with everyone wishing everyone else a Happy New Year for 2021 as we leave behind a year most of us would like to forget. But even as we move into 2021 we have the ongoing restrictions and fallout from this pandemic to deal with so I didn't want to glibly just wish everyone all the best. I wanted to offer you something...

This is a video interview I did with my good friend and professional colleague Tony Bleetman on the 18th November 2020. In this video Tony takes a look back at how far the UK has come in the last twenty or so years in relation to restraint and how far ahead the UK is compared to many other countries. We talk about the history of restraint, where it came from and how each different sector decided u...

Interview With Trevel Henry on The 20th November 2020 As this is anti-bullying week Trevel and I discuss bullying from a few different perspectives. We talk about the psychological impact of bullying and the fact that ninety-eight percent of human beings can suffer a phobic reaction caused by interpersonal human conflict compared to only fifteen percent who would suffer a phobic reaction if confro...

According to recent statistics a high percentage of people are unhappy. They are unhappy with their work, the situations they find themselves in and their lives in general which creates physical, mental and psychological problems. However, there is a simple solution and that is what this podcast is about. 

This is a radio interview I did on the Pete Price Radio Show back in 2008.  The interview was about how far a person can go in protecting their home and where do we stand with regards to using reasonable force to do so. In this interview we talk about whether a person can use a baseball bat or a knife to defend themselves, how I got started in the industry and why I wrote the book 'Understand...

This interview was done a few years ago now but I feel that it may help some of you out there so I thought I'd share it with you because it may help you if you are worried, feeling stuck or helpless as many people are during this current pandemic.  I just hope it helps.  Best Regards Mark Dawes

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This is a very simple saying and it of course applies to ladies and everyone else too - "If You Want To Be Rich, Do What The Rich Guy Does". So why don't more people do just that? Well one reason is that they don't invest in themselves so instead of investing in a course from someone who has already achieved what they want to achieve they go and find a cheaper course and this highlights that the p...

Marketing should be the lifeblood of your business. Without marketing businesses find it hard to compete with their competitors so I recommend that over 50% of your time should be spent marketing your business. 

www.nfps.info/urf - Our New Online Understanding Reasonable Force Course will be going live again on Friday the 7th August, so if you missed out last time and you don't want to miss out again, go to www.nfps.info/urf and register your interest now and you'll be first in the queue when we sent out the email on Friday morning that the course is live! I look forward to seeing you on the course! Best...

Having the ability to make a good discretionary judgement call will depend entirely on a person's judgement at any given moment in time and that judgement will be as good or as bad as the training, skills, knowledge that the person has been given, combined with their experience and overall competence.

An article today reported that an infected nurse at a training event where staff didn't wear masks or obey social distancing rules triggered a Covid-19 outbreak at the Hillingdon Hospital in West London. It seems that a training session on June 30 was the source of the outbreak, and nurses who went did not all wear masks or stay socially distanced. Hospital bosses have apparently revealed that at...