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Proudly named Conflict Management Consultancy of the Year 2024/2025, GoodSense has helped thousands of professionals across the NHS, Mental Health services, care sectors, and private sector organisations build confidence, stay safe, and manage difficult situations with clarity and control.

PMVA Training

Specialist PMVA training to prevent, de-escalate and safely manage violence and aggression in the workplace.

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Conflict Resolution Training

Conflict resolution training that builds confidence to manage workplace conflict, improve communication and prevent escalation.

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Physical Intervention Training

Physical intervention and breakaway training focused on safe, proportionate techniques to reduce risk and protect staff.

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Breakaway & Self-Defence Training

Breakaway and self-defence training focused on safe, proportionate techniques to escape holds, reduce risk and protect personal safety at work.

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Leadership and Management Training

Whether you’re a new manager wanting to establish a good working relationship with your new team or an existing leader looking to motivate your workforce and challenge existing behaviour, our range of courses can help.

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Tailored support to prevent &
manage workplace conflict
& violence

We provide industry-leading support to help organisations prevent and manage workplace conflict, violence, and aggression effectively. Our training is bespoke, developed around your staff roles, risk profile, and the sector-specific scenarios your teams face in real working environments.

Our approach combines evidence-based conflict management, practical de-escalation skills, and personal safety strategies that are proportionate, ethical, and effective. All content is designed to align with current legislation and best practice and, when applied appropriately, is legally defensible, giving organisations confidence that staff responses are both safe and compliant.

By tailoring every programme to your organisation, we ensure training is relevant, practical, and directly transferable—supporting safer workplaces, reduced incidents, and confident, well-prepared staff.

Prevention Management Violence Aggression (PMVA) – High Risk

By the end of the course, delegates will have been helped to:

  • Become more confident about dealing with violence and aggression by identifying types of behaviour and triggers to violent aggressive behaviour
  • Know the health and safety issues regarding violence and aggression in the work place
  • Recognise and understand how their own body language and methods of communication can affect others
  • Realise that defusing and de-escalating situations are by far the best way of dealing with a potentially violent or aggressive situation

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Conflict Resolution Training

1 Day Training Course delivered at your venue

Proudly named Conflict Management Consultancy of the Year 2024/2025, GoodSense has helped thousands of professionals across the NHS, Mental Health services, care sectors, and private sector organisations build confidence, stay safe, and manage difficult situations with clarity and control.

Course Content
Every course is tailored, but typical content includes:

  • Recognising early warning signs of conflict
  • Understanding triggers and behavioural cues
  • Communicating with confidence under pressure
  • Applying effective de-escalation techniques
  • Staying safe in high-stress situations
  • Managing complaints and emotional customers
  • Navigating workplace tension and team conflict

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Physical Intervention - 1 Day

  • DURATION: 1 Day

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Positive Handling in Schools

  • DURATION: 1 Day
  • SUITABLE FOR: Anyone who works with children and young people.

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Why Choose Us?

Bespoke Training

All of our training is tailored to your organisation, your people, and the real-world scenarios you face. Our experienced training consultants work closely with you to design highly relevant, practical content aligned to your risks, environments, and operational needs—ensuring the training is meaningful, engaging, and immediately applicable.

Mandatory Training

For NHS and public sector organisations, conflict management and the prevention and management of violence and aggression (PMVA) form part of mandatory training requirements to protect staff and service users. This is underpinned by the Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, which places a legal duty on employers to reduce foreseeable risks, including violence and aggression, as well as supporting guidance from the NHS Security Management Service. Regular refresher training is strongly recommended to ensure staff remain confident, competent, and up to date with best practice, legislation, and organisational policies—particularly in high-risk or front-line environments.

Accredited Training

We are licensed to deliver a wide range of accredited conflict resolution, PMVA, and physical intervention training across multiple sectors. Our programmes operate in line with recognised frameworks and licensing bodies, including NFPS, GSA, and Safe Systems (RRN), ensuring training is lawful, ethical, and aligned with national best practice. Where required, we can also offer BTEC qualifications in areas such as physical intervention and mechanical restraint, alongside CPD certificates for all courses delivered—supporting organisational compliance, professional development, and audit requirements.

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“It has made me more aware of my personal safety. This is the best course for relevance I have been on. Brilliant”

Julia Gilbert

Senior Staff Nurse, Leeds PCT

“By far one of the best courses I have been on. No complaints at all”

Libbie Owens

City of Durham Council

“Well presented with good content. Presented well with light humour but serious subjects”

Alex Monaghan

Senior OT – CRU, ST Mary’s Hospital

FAQS

GoodSense Frequently Asked Questions

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GoodSense delivers in-house training exclusively for organisations. Our programmes are commissioned by Learning & Development Managers, HR teams, senior leaders, and commissioners who are responsible for staff safety, behaviour management, and organisational risk.

We work with organisations across:

  • NHS and Mental Health Trusts
  • Schools, colleges, SEND and alternative provision
  • Care homes, supported living, and children’s services
  • Local authorities and charities
  • Retail, hospitality, and customer-facing organisations

We do not deliver open or public courses. All training is:

  • Delivered on-site or at client venues
  • Tailored to your policies, staff roles, and risk profile
  • Designed to integrate into your existing behaviour, safeguarding, and health & safety frameworks

This ensures training is relevant, consistent, and defensible, and supports organisations in meeting their legal duties under UK Health & Safety and safeguarding legislation.

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PMVA (Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression) training equips staff with the skills to prevent, de-escalate, and safely manage challenging behaviour, reducing the need for physical intervention wherever possible.

PMVA training is suitable for staff working in:

  • NHS and Mental Health services
  • Care and supported living environments
  • Education and SEND settings
  • Local authority and community services
  • Retail and customer-facing roles

GoodSense PMVA training prioritises:

  • Early intervention and de-escalation
  • Dynamic risk assessment
  • Lawful, proportionate decision-making
  • Staff confidence, wellbeing, and safety
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Positive Handling in education is a preventative, supportive approach to managing challenging behaviour in schools, where behaviour is understood as communication rather than defiance.

Positive Handling in schools focuses on:

  • De-escalation and relational strategies
  • Supporting pupils with SEND, SEMH, trauma, or neurodiversity
  • Creating safe, predictable learning environments
  • Using physical intervention only as a last resort

GoodSense training aligns with:

  • Department for Education guidance
  • School behaviour and relationships policies
  • Safeguarding duties and staff duty of care

Our approach supports schools to reduce incidents, exclusions, and staff injuries while maintaining calm, inclusive learning environments.

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Yes. Through our professional relationship with Safe Schools Ltd, GoodSense can now ensure our customers are able to benefit from the certificated “Safe Systems” training programme.

This programme aligns with the BILD ACT and the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) standards and supports organisations to:

  • Reduce restrictive practices
  • Embed prevention-first, trauma-informed approaches
  • Strengthen governance and accountability
  • Meet regulatory and commissioning expectations

Training is delivered in-house for organisations, integrated into existing policies, risk assessments, and behaviour frameworks to ensure consistency, defensibility, and sustainability.

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