Law Enforcement:
Learn How to De-Escalate Violence Without the Use of Force
How to De-Escalate Violence
De-Escalating violence without the use of force is a skill comprised of two elements:
- The ability to ignore the words, focus on emotions and reflect those emotions back
- The ability to problem-solve specific issues once calm is restored
These skills must be learned, practiced, and honed to be mastered.
Research shows that learning how to de-escalate violence without the use of force will not come from a one-off workshop. In fact, professional development workshops have an abysmal record at changing professional practices and improving student achievement.
Doug Noll offers a live and virtual (online) curriculum that includes three four hour lessons in the principles and practice of non-violent conflict de-escalation, followed by weekly small group or individual coaching sessions. Over a 10 week period, participants begin to master the skills and change the way they see their educational environment.
How To De-Escalate Violence without the Use of Force is based on the award-winning Prison of Peace project.
Topics include:
- The somatic, cognitive, and neurophysiologic components of emotion
- The concept of emotional categorization and its opposite, alexithymia
- Understanding the six needs of victims
- Understanding the emotions behind aggressive behavior
- Using de escalation as a crisis prevention strategy (cpi)
- The four levels of reflective listening and why three types of reflection will usually make things worse
- The skill of affect labeling to de-escalate strong emotions
- The skill of core messaging
- The skill of results-based listening
- The skill of making accountable agreements
- Teaching the skills forward
Each course is tailored to the needs of the client organization. POST approval can be obtained at agency request.