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Situational Awareness Training

Do you possess the essential elements for robust personal security?

Personal security is a mindset. It involves evaluating your current situation and adopting a balanced perspective. Consider your safety from the perspective of a potential assailant: are you a soft target? When are you most at risk? How can you reduce the likelihood of being selected as a target?

When faced with an attack, allow common sense and instinct to guide your response.

Being prepared, both mentally and physically, practicing your responses, and implementing all available safety measures should be integral to your training. Our personal safety training course provides participants with strategies to reduce personal safety risks, including dealing with the dangers of working or traveling alone, among other scenarios.

Assertiveness Training

Projecting assertiveness to others involves maintaining control over your demeanor, carefully choosing your words, using clear body language, and articulating your thoughts clearly. When individuals are fearful or uncertain, it can influence their reactions to various situations.

Similarly, when someone is apprehensive about confronting or delving into a deeply troubling issue, they often exhibit anger. It's beneficial to cultivate a realistic, yet hopeful, internal dialogue. Transform negative thoughts like "this will never work" into positive affirmations such as "if I work hard, I can increase my chances of success."

While it's impossible to banish all negative thoughts, everyone experiences challenging days. However, by substituting excessively pessimistic thoughts with more balanced expectations, you can navigate difficult times more effectively.

Fear Control

Psychology over substance

Fortifying your psyche and motivation is crucial for mastering fear control. Countless individuals have triumphed over daunting challenges by believing they were not destined to perish under those circumstances. Ensure that your source of motivation is potent enough to surmount the adverse emotions that typically arise with severe stress. Our courses are designed to cultivate this skill.

Are you interested in elevating your mental resilience? By enrolling in our courses, you will learn to foster this mindset and apply it in your daily life.

Counter Terrorism Awareness Training

Counter Terrorism Awareness Training is an essential strategy that combines military and government tactics to fight or prevent terrorism. Its main objective is to reduce the impact of terrorist attacks and provide individuals with the knowledge needed to handle sensitive situations.

As terrorism can target large businesses and their employees, many organizations are actively participating in counter-terrorism training. Sphere's training program ensures that employees are ready to react effectively during an attack, reducing harm to themselves, their colleagues, and the public.

The benefits of Sphere's training can be critical during a terrorist attack, acting as a vital resource. Employees educated by Sphere Protection Services will know the appropriate actions to take if an incident occurs. Failing to train employees in managing hazardous situations could leave them vulnerable.

Our course is designed to heighten awareness of terrorism-related issues that may affect individuals and organizations, both at home and abroad. The threat of terrorism is ever-present and non-discriminatory. Employers have a "Duty of Care" towards their staff, and with terrorism being a foreseeable risk, it is crucial to implement Crisis Management Plans and Preparation.

We offer counter-terrorism training to the public and business owners throughout the UK. Our head of training, with a track record of providing counter-terrorism courses nationally and internationally, possesses extensive expertise and experience, ensuring top-tier anti-terrorism training.

Lone Worker Personal Safety Training

Are you exposed to verbal, physical, or psychological aggression? Our customised courses are available at our training centre or your preferred location.

These courses are crafted to enhance awareness of the dangers you might face when working alone, improving your understanding of these risks and your conflict management skills.

The following areas are included in the training, but the course content is adaptable and can be customised to fit your organisation's needs:

- Lone working: Risk assessment and identification

- Travel safety: Strategies for various modes of transportation

- Home visits: Ensuring safety and personal security before, during, and after visits

- Risk assessment: Preparation, planning, and risk reduction

- Conflict management: Techniques and strategies for verbal, psychological, and physical de-escalation

- Risk mitigation and incident resolution

Sphere Active Shooter/Assailant Response Training Program

Contingency programmes in Schools, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Healthcare establishments.

Preparing and Responding to Active Shooters/Active Assailants

Our programmes, seminars and courses provide guidance to:

·    Individuals

·    Managers

·    Employees

·    Educational Staff

·    Tutors

·    Emergency Services Staff

So, they prepare to respond to an active assailant situation wherever it may be:

·    Mass gatherings

·    Schools, Colleges and Universities

·    Sports Arenas

·    Critical Infrastructure Buildings

Options that have been proven to be most effective in the preparation and response to incidents such as active shooters, active assailants, complex coordinated attacks, terrorists or other extreme actors.

Our programmes, seminars and courses are delivered by Sphere’s subject matter expert to guide and assist with any organisation’s emergency contingency action planning.

Abduction and Kidnapping Prevention

This course is crucial for survival in abduction or kidnapping scenarios, offering vital knowledge in evasion and anti-kidnapping techniques. Our training is tailored to enhance the likelihood of surviving such incidents.

Training encompasses:

- Counter Abduction Principles

- Recognizing threats

- Identifying potential target areas

- Mastering situational survival

- Conducting vulnerability assessments

- Ensuring travel and route security

- Leveraging your environment

- Detecting signs of child grooming and exploitation

The emphasis is on disengaging swiftly and effectively by employing established strategies and tactics.

Anti-Abduction Training for Schools

The average age of a trafficking victim is twelve, making it crucial to address this issue early and frequently. Schools should provide anti-abduction training to students, which includes instructing children to speak up if someone they do not trust attempts to take them.

Our training integrates other vital topics, such as adult/student boundaries, bullying, and harassment. Sphere's training programs are designed by our committed team to enhance the understanding of bullying behavior among children, young people, parents, and professionals. Each session is distinct, interactive, and informative.

For practical, hands-on sessions brimming with information, contact us for Sphere's founder/chief instructor to conduct a course at your school. Visit our contact page for details. We offer a superb selection of age-appropriate anti-abduction awareness training packages, which also promote safety and encourage open dialogue with parents.

Kidnapping and the Private Sector

The news media often highlights kidnapping cases involving high-profile individuals such as journalists, wealthy persons, and children. However, the portrayal of kidnapping in films and television contrasts sharply with reality. Kidnappings for ransom occur daily worldwide, driven by various factors including geography, conflict, and socio-economic conditions, with many incidents going unreported. In regions where law enforcement is ineffective, private sector organizations step in to provide support and aid in securing the victims' safe release. The structured approach offered by experts aids in negotiation, liaising with the victims' families and employers, and arranging post-incident support.

Our consultants are seasoned professionals with experience in hostage rescue and counter-terrorism operations, possessing deep knowledge of the operational methods of these groups.

Our training empowers employees and individuals with the confidence to reduce risk exposure.

Participants will acquire strategies for an effective response in a kidnapping event. The syllabus, delivered through theoretical instruction, visual aids, and realistic scenarios, includes:

- Conduct during capture

- Understanding kidnapper tactics and modus operandi

- Prevention strategies

- Response protocols

- Enhancing situational awareness

- Coping mechanisms

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