Mark Dawes' Podcasts

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 upon its own restraint training based on their own specific objectives and requirements.

As well as lots of other interesting stuff!

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 confronted by a snake. 

We discuss school-refusal phobia, a little known phenomena caused by bullying at school.

Trevel and I discuss the need for more openness and transparency, especially from men who tend to suffer in silence because they are supposed to be 'men'.

Workplace Bullying

We then look at the issue of workplace bullying, especially the subtle way that this can take place which can leave staff willing to put up with the pain and indignity of being verbally and physically abused as opposed to being disciplined by their management.

School Bullying and Defending Oneself

We talk about a situation where a bullied child had reached crisis point and defended himself only to be excluded by the school who knew about the bullying but wouldn't exclude the bullies due to the school full-inclusion policy. Which is bacially discrimination.

Certification

We discuss the reality that many staff face when training is decided on a 'certification' or 'accreditation' basis only, without any thought for the objectives that need to be met and how different agencies will have different sector operational and organisational objectives. 

we talk frankly about decisions being made about training by managers who use subjective opinion as opposed to an objective training needs analysis which can lead to techniques being omitted that should be used which leave everyone at risk. 

Underreporting

We reflect on the fact that when we first stated there was a large problem in under-reporting because staff felt that there was no point in doing so because nothing would get done.

And loads more ........

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 'Understanding Reasonable Force'. 

The interview was done to clarify the confusion with regards to what a person can do to with regards to protect their home and how far a person can actually go in doing so. 

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 person may also have a "fortress mentality" in so much as they want to be the best but only pay the cheapest price.

Enjoy!

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 Regards

Mark

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.