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Responding to Violence, Suicide, Psychosis & Trauma

IMPACT delivers the most unique, original and dramatic courses in the field of Personal Safety and Crisis Mental Health. These courses have been designed and are delivered by Dr Iain Bourne. The signature course is the dramatic, intensive and widely renowned course "Difficult, Disturbing and Dangerous Behaviour."

The "Fringe Theatre" approach involves "live" critical encounters visually and dramatically performed before the training group allowing for a highly focussed, evocative and collective experience. It also ensures that, rather than the training being lost in a fog of words, participants can see what is being talked about, engage with it directly and determine how the course material stands up to their own personal scrutiny.

While the pictures above (taken from "Difficult, Disturbing and Dangerous Behaviour") may be off-putting, the intention is not to shock but to illustrate how good practice can realistically be delivered under the most extenuating of circumstances. On other courses the subject matter is presented in an equally dramatic but different "Talking Heads" style.

The point about the training, however, is not its unique style - we do not train to entertain. We keep ourselves at the fore-front of current practice in health, social care, housing, education and enforcement. Our aim is to provide participants with the very best information, awareness, guidance, skills and resources - right up to date.

Although there are a number of standardised courses, any of these can be combined, adjusted or adapted to suit your needs. We deliver courses across all professional groups, settings, tasks and circumstances. View our full range of courses here.

Two other areas may interest you

• We have developed models for delivering Mental Health Training to Service Users both with and without key-workers present
• We provide unique clinical, consultancy and crisis response services - if your organisation has a problem in any of our specialist areas, why not contact us to see if we can help?