Marty is a seasoned trainer focusing on de-escalation training with thousands of hours of facilitation over the last two decades. Of greatest note, Marty provides a wealth of “Trauma-informed” trainings, notably on “The Basics of Trauma-informed Care & Approaches,” “De-escalation & Personal Safety through a Trauma-informed Lens” and “Compassion Fatigue & Self-Care” for professionals representing a variety of areas.
Need to learn the fundamental principles of verbal de-escalation and understanding curriculum that is designed to identify several basic behavioral types and what manner of communication works best with each one? Need de-escalation techniques appropriate for nurses, teachers, law enforcement, counselors, and other professionals, individuals, and groups?
Marty has an abundance of training curriculum materials. He is comfortable providing brief, one-time trainings or customizing content for larger-scale organizational needs. Of note, Marty is quite comfortable providing therapeutic, safe content addressing challenging subject matter. His trainings range in length; many are in the 2-4 hour range. As noted, he is quite amenable to adjusting content and durations to meet the needs of the group he is serving.
Marty strives to offer substantially researched materials that combine the best-practices and most widely-recognized science and philosophies for skills-based trainings. Marty strives to foster a learning environment that is equitable. Welcoming, and inclusive to all people and all learning styles.
Marty’s most popular trainings:
- Trauma-informed Care basics (TIC 101)
- Advanced Trauma-informed Care Approaches; including
- Trauma-informed Communication approaches
- Trauma-informed Approaches for a specific professional group (e.g., educational professionals, law enforcement, integrated health care and/or social services, etc).
- Trauma-informed emerging science series; including areas of neurobiology and Epigenetics (co-facilitated) trainings that focus on current research
- De-escalation & Personal Safety Through a Trauma-informed Lens
- Advanced De-escalation & Personal Safety Through a Trauma-informed Lens – this can include training on “Non-violent Physical Defense & Evasion” practices
- Compassion Fatigue & Self-Care Basics for Professionals, namely those exposed to Secondary (Vicarious) Trauma – can be offered as a one-time training or a multi-event training/consultation