Mark Dawes' Podcasts

In this podcast I discuss some interesting happenings in less than five minutes (as promised).

Currently there are trainers, managers and inspectors in various industry sectors, including: healthcare, care, education, door supervision, security and close protection, who are either expected to train, manage, provide guidance on, investigate and even discipline staff who use physical force in the workplace. Yet a very high percentage of these people have not received any competent training or...

This is a conversation between Trevel Henry and me on How Can You Run a Restraint Trainer Course in 5 Days, The Pareto Principle, Ockhams Razor, Academics and loads more!

This is an interview I did with Tony Bleetman. It follows on nicely from the one that I did with Eric Baskind the other day and adds a professional medical perspective on a lot of restraint related issues. Some of the main points are time stamped below: 00:23 - Inspectorate issues with the Youth Justice Board over certain physical restraint techniques (similar to the recent CQC issues raised with...

Under The Health & Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Regulation 13: CQC inspectors are expected to safeguard people who use services from suffering any form of abuse or improper treatment which includes .... unlawful restraint. However the CQC's response to a freedom of information request has highlighted that CQC inspectors are very highly likely to be unqualified...

Everyone who is anyone in CP knows ‘Ginge’, but if you don’t know him here is some info about Ginge. ‘Ginge’ served in the British Army for 18 years, 13 of which were spent in the 22nd Special Air Services Regiment. During this time, he developed a wide range of skills including counter-terrorism and VIP protection. Ginge joined the private sector in 1990 and has worked for a number of private sec...

Every now and then I come across an agency/organisation that has a 'no-restraint' policy in place and my first question is always, why do you have a policy for something that you don't need to do? You can read the full blog post here - https://www.nfps.info/no-restraint-policies-whats-your-view-on-them/

This is the audio from a Zoom Masterclass that we did on the 21st May 2020. It looks at the science behind how and why your thoughts, intentions and meditations can literally change your reality that you experience every day, as well as why some people get stuck in their reality and can never seem to change it. It builds on Tuesday's session - 'The 4 Levels of Manifestation and 'The Backwards Law'...

This audio is taken from a recent video meeting where Trevel Henry and I discuss the burning question that seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment, which is “Is There Any Guidance From Anywhere That Indicates When Can We Resume Physical Restraint Training During Covid 19?” Lots of trainers are now being asked to re-start delivering physical restraint/physical intervention/pmva/mva training an...

This is the audio from a video Mastermind session that I ran on the 19th May 2020 in which I discussed the power of manifestation, but also why it doesn't work for some people. In it we cover the 4 Levels of Manifestation as well as 'The Backwards Law' which the great thinker Alan Watts described as "the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become" and I'll also expl...

In this video Trevel and I discuss some correspondence we've had from people we have subsequently helped and supported. In one case this involved a person whose company provides security staff to local authority benefits offices and the questions was asked: "Do you have anything official from the SIA or yourself that outlines How to deal with an Incident keeping Social Distancing? We work for the...

My name is Mark Dawes and I have a message for every world leader, every leader of faith, all the media, and all of the great thinkers of our current modern age, so please bear with me on this one. ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣We are living in unprecedented times right now. We've never been through anything like this before, but we will come out the other side. ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣But while this is going on, there is a wave of neg...

I woke up to a post this morning that said:  "Cried this morning. Why? Self doubt hurts. It's scary. I need a life coach. And then I need to become one".  I hope this helps them.   hashtag#selfesteem hashtag#selfconfidence hashtag#selfdoubt

These are the words of Viktor Frankl and it is a question he used to ask his patients who came to se him who were suffering from a multitude of torment and from their answers he would find their reason for living  And Viktor Frankl was well qualified to ask that question as a therapist because he had survived the holocaust as a long term prisoner in Nazi concentration camps where his existenc...

I have been getting asked a lot about my views on staff donning ppe so that they can restraint patients/service users, etc. ⁣ ⁣ But what some people don’t realise is that when you introduce PPE into the equation you also introduce additional hazards that must be controlled. ⁣  That is what this video is about. ⁣ ⁣ I hope it helps and please feel free to leave any comments below.

As you know I have been putting out risk assessment information relating to Covid 19 and Physical Restraint in lieu of anything that may or may not be forthcoming from Public Health England and you can access that resource on our website if you haven’t done so already. However, I am also seeing another worrying trend, and that is risk assessments being done to justify something that staff shouldn’...

Our brains are designed to protect us from things that can harm us, so they are designed to seek out what threatens our safety and make us aware of that threat. And let’s face it, there is an abundance of things for our brain to choose from that will create fear, anxiety, worry and anger, because it is readily available all around us. And Anger and fear are the two primary emotions that can destro...

Warning : The story you tell yourself inside your head can be sabotaging your future and your health. This is why it’s so important to tell yourself the right story You are (right now) telling yourself a story inside our heard, but is th the right on? The wrong story can have a seriously negative effect in your life and also in your health. This podcast explores why it is so important for you (and...

This is really REALLY IMPORTANT, so please watch all of the way through and if you feel that it may be of benefit to anyone to keep themselves safe, feel free to share it. Not many people know about this!

I have had a call this week and during that call the person told me that a representative from a training company has allegedly told them that they are the only NHS Approved Training Provider who are approved to deliver Restraint Training to the NHS. And no, I’m not making it up!

Trevel Henry is a good friend and a very experience Expert Witness on the use of force as well having been a trainer for many years now. In this podcast we discuss the issues relating to the use of physical restraint in the current pandemic situation in an open and frank way. We also discuss the problems staff face if they should fall out of date by not being able to attend a refresher course and...

The current coronavirus situation has been devastating for a lot of businesses with courses and jobs cancelled with no short term solution. Many business owners are very worried that their businesses may not survive the Governments twelve-week period of ‘social distancing’ and ‘self-isolation’ ….. but, there are opportunities that you can take advantage of if you apply yourself and think different...

This is about a care home, a residential care home, it's not a secure care home, and in this particular care home, they've got a service user that started to exhibit some quite extreme behaviour. Now this only just started to happen, but what this service user does is he leaves the home and goes to a bridge and threatens to jump off the bridge into fast moving traffic. So someone rang me up and sa...

How liable are you if an inspectorate gives you illegal advice, which you feel pressurised to implement (due to the inspectorate possibly threatening to impose sanctions against your company) even if you know it will increase the risk to your staff and service users? This podcast answers that question.