• A human rights approach, promoting positive behaviour support and reducing restrictive practices

    Certified Training in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

    Maybo training provides staff with the skills and awareness required to de-escalate and manage behaviours of concern, with the aim of creating positive and safer learning environments where children can actively learn and explore.

    Proven experience and expertise 

    Maybo believes behaviour management training should be based on values that promote respect and choices for the individual.

    Our learning methods are consistent with the principles of positive behaviour support - focusing on primary and secondary strategies for preventing and defusing behaviours that represent a risk to safety. This helps you:

    • Better understand a child’s physiological and emotional needs that may act as a learning barrier
    • Make improvements to the learning environment
    • Engage children in ways that reduce behaviours of concern

    Alongside proactive strategies to meet needs through a human rights approach, our de-escalation strategies help colleagues to safely manage challenging situations that arise, with the aim of reducing the need for restrictive practices.

    Our programme supports the requirements for:

    • Core Practitioner, NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
    • Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework 2021
    • Enabling Good Lives principles
    • Ngā Paerewa Health and Disability Services Standard NZS 8134:2021

    In the UK, we were amongst the first organisations to achieve Certification from the BILD Association of Certified Training.

    Our training acknowledges the need for other stakeholders to be equipped with the skills that are central to the implementation of an effective positive behaviour support plan.

    Maybo Training Programmes

    Promoting human rights and reducing restrictive practices & positive behaviour support programme

    Specification

    Delivery: In-person / Trainer-led

    Duration: 12 hours

    Max. Group Size: 15

    Blended Learning Option: Yes

    Virtual Delivery Option: Yes

    Train-the-Trainer: Yes

    This programme has been specifically designed for special education professionals to better understand human rights, restrictive practices, and the pillars of positive behaviour support. On completion of this programme, staff will:

    Promoting Human Rights and Reducing Restrictive Practices:

    • Understand underpinning legislation, principles, and definitions
    • Know different strategies to reduce risk and improve quality of life
    • Understand restrictive practices
    • Know the importance of duty of care and ethical decision making

    Understanding Behaviour: A PBS Approach:

    • Understand the Principles of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) 
    • Understand that all behaviour happens for a reason
    • Understand factors that can influence behaviour
    • Understand how to identify the function of a person's behaviour
    • Observing Behaviour to Inform PBS Plans and Strategies:

    Know how different tools are used to observe, record and report behaviours

    • Know how to respond to poor practice
    • Understand person-centred approaches to positive behaviour support planning
    • Understand the purpose of behavioural reinforcement

    Implementing Person Centred Active Support:

    • Know how to support the development of new skills and relationships through active support
    • Know how engagement can improve quality of life
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    De-escalation programme

    Specification

    Delivery: In-person / Trainer-led

    Duration: 6 hours

    Max. Group Size: 15

    Blended Learning Option: Yes

    Virtual Delivery Option: Yes

    Train-the-Trainer: Yes

    This programme has been specifically designed for special education professionals who may encounter distressing situations and respond to psychological trauma in children and young people.

    With a focus on preventative approach built around positive relationships, special education professionals will be equipped with comprehensive positive strategies, communication skills and de-escalation. On completion of this programme, staff will:

    • Understand risks, rights and responsibilities in the workplace
    • Know how different factors influence behaviour
    • Know the importance of positive interactions and choices
    • Be able to use dynamic risk assessment to inform decision making
    • Be able to use safer de-escalation approaches
    • Be able to maintain personal safety and follow post-incident procedures
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    De-escalation, personal safety and guiding programme

    Specification

    Delivery: In-person / Trainer-led

    Duration: 8 hours

    Max. Group Size: 12

    Blended Learning Option: Yes

    Virtual Delivery Option: No

    Train-the-Trainer: Yes

    This programme has been specifically designed for special education professionals who may encounter distressing situations and may need to use personal safety and guiding to manage risks.

    Each program is built on a strong foundation of human rights, trauma-informed care, and the reduction of restrictive practices. On completion of this programme, staff will:

    • Understand risks, rights and responsibilities in the workplace
    • Know how different factors influence behaviour
    • Know the importance of positive interactions and choices
    • Be able to use dynamic risk assessment to inform decision making
    • Be able to use safer de-escalation approaches
    • Be able to maintain personal safety and follow post-incident procedures
    • Understand the considerations for the use of non-restrictive physical skills
    • Be able to use defensive skills to avoid assault
    • Be able to use defensive skills to disengage or reduce risk from grips
    • Be able to use physical intervention to guide and redirect a person

    Physical restrictive practices subject to a TNA. Please enquire should further techniques be required.

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    Certified Training for Services Supporting Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

    Click on the boxes below to explore our training modules

    • All

    • eLearning

    • Classroom

    • Virtual Classroom

    • Train the Trainer

    eLearning

    Maybo's eLearning programmes utilise the latest learning technologies, realistic scenarios and interactive exercises to offer an engaging self-study learning experience.

    eLearning can play a valuable role within a blended learning strategy, underpinning the knowledge and reducing staff abstraction time, or in some instances as a complete solution. It also works well for induction and refresher training.

    To find out more or for volume purchases contact our team or visit our eLearning store for individual purchases.

    eLearning is also known as self-directed learning. It often precedes Classroom or Virtual Classroom training to provide a foundation of knowledge in advance - this is known as a blended approach.

    Classroom

    Maybo designs and delivers training to meet your requirements and can deliver direct to your staff wherever you need it. We take time to understand your training needs and the unique challenges and scenarios your colleagues face, to ensure our Classroom courses are highly relevant. Learners receive superb resources and certificates with a range of accreditation and qualification options.

    Classroom training can be combined with eLearning to form a blended learning strategy, underpinning the knowledge and reducing staff abstraction time.

    Classroom training is delivered by a trainer at an agreed venue. It is also sometimes called face-to-face or in-person training.

    Virtual Classroom

    Maybo designs and delivers Virtual Classroom training to meet your requirements.

    Virtual Classroom training enables staff to benefit from engaging team training with high-levels of participation delivered remotely by a skilled facilitator over video conferencing software including Zoom and MS Teams.

    Virtual Classroom training can also be combined powerfully with eLearning to form a blended learning strategy, with eLearning underpinning the knowledge and reducing staff abstraction time.

    Virtual Classroom training is live, participatory training delivered remotely by a trainer with video conferencing software.

    Train the Trainer

    Maybo offers a Train the Trainer model that equips experienced trainers to deliver Maybo's accredited training curricula within their own organisation.

    We run regular courses on a variety of subjects that include supporting people with complex needs, positive behaviour support, preventing conflict and behaviours of concern, safer approaches to de-escalation and conflict resolution, personal safety, assault avoidance and low arousal handling skills.

    To find out more contact our team.

    Trainers receive access to Maybo's online resource centre where they can find everything they need to deliver and certify Maybo training in-house.

    Special Educational Needs and Disabilities – All

    • Understanding Trauma and Trauma‑Informed Approaches

      Trauma can affect anyone. When a person lives with trauma their brain works differently and their behaviour changes, yet we as a society often respond in unhelpful ways.

      This comprehensive eLearning course seeks to bridge the gap between identifying and understanding trauma, and, responding with intelligence and compassion in a way that opens the door for recovery and a better way forward.

      Designed for people providing care and support to someone affected by trauma, four engaging and informative eLearning modules explore the fundamental concepts of trauma and how it affects the minds, emotions, lives and behaviours of people who experience it and those close to them.

      This comprehensive course provides a great starting point for those embarking on training and qualifications in trauma-informed approaches. It also provides a pragmatic, engaging and practical way for organisations to provide trauma-awareness training to their whole workforce.

      • Psychological trauma and its potential impact. 
      • Individual factors that can create resilience to trauma and the possible signs and symptoms of trauma.
      • Physiological and psychological effects of trauma.
      • Adopting a trauma-informed approach.

      Delivery methods:

      • eLearning eLearning

    • Promoting Human Rights & Reducing Restrictive Practices

      This module explores the principles of supporting a person's needs through a human rights approach. It develops learners' ability to take effective, person-centred measures to reduce restrictive practices that might be used intentionally or in some cases without realising they are restricting the person's liberty or autonomy.

      • Underpinning legislation, principles and definitions
      • Strategies to improve quality of life and reduce risk
      • Recognising restrictive practices
      • Ethical decision making

       This module is RRN Approved when part of a BILD ACT Certified Curriculum.

      Delivery methods:

      • eLearning eLearning
      • Classroom Classroom
      • Virtual Classroom Virtual Classroom
      • Train the Trainer Train the Trainer

    • Understanding Behaviour: A PBS Approach

      This module is designed for people providing care and support to people with learning disabilities or autism. It aims to develop their understanding of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and person-centred support.

      Principles of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)

      • Understanding PBS
      • Principles of PBS
      • Three key areas of PBS

      Characteristics of Behaviour 

      • Behaviour considerations
      • Behaviours of concern
      • Effects of behaviours of concern

      Factors That Influence Behaviour

      • Factors that can influence behaviour
      • How inhibitors can influence behaviour

      Functions of a Person's Behaviour

      • Fast and slow triggers
      • Identifying the function of a person's behaviour

      This module is normally combined with the following Maybo modules to form a two-day PBS training programme:

      1. Promoting Human Rights and Reducing Restrictive Practices
      2. Understanding Behaviour: A PBS Approach (this module)
      3. Observing Behaviour to Inform PBS Plans and Strategies
      4. Implementing Person-Centred Active Support

       This module is RRN Approved when part of a BILD ACT Certified Curriculum.

      Delivery methods:

      • eLearning eLearning
      • Classroom Classroom
      • Virtual Classroom Virtual Classroom
      • Train the Trainer Train the Trainer

    • Observing Behaviour to Inform PBS Plans and Strategies

      This module is designed for people providing care and support to children or adults with learning disabilities or autism. It will develop their ability to contribute to behaviour-informed positive behavioural support plans and strategies.

      • Observation, recording and reporting approaches
      • Actions to protect vulnerable people
      • Positive planning
      • Proactive and reactive strategies
      • Reinforcing behaviour in a PBS framework

      This module is normally combined with the following Maybo modules to form a two-day PBS training programme:

      1. Promoting Human Rights and Reducing Restrictive Practices
      2. Understanding Behaviour: A PBS Approach
      3. Observing Behaviour to Inform PBS Plans and Strategies (this module)
      4. Implementing Person-Centred Active Support

       This module is RRN Approved when part of a BILD ACT Certified Curriculum.

      Delivery methods:

      • eLearning eLearning
      • Classroom Classroom
      • Virtual Classroom Virtual Classroom
      • Train the Trainer Train the Trainer

    • Implementing Person Centred Active Support

      This module is designed for people providing care and support to people with learning / intellectual disabilities or autism. It aims to develop their ability to implement person-centred active support and PBS values.

      • Observation, recording and reporting approaches
      • Actions to protect vulnerable people
      • Positive planning
      • Proactive and reactive strategies
      • Reinforcing behaviour in a PBS framework

      This module is normally combined with the following Maybo modules to form a two-day PBS training programme:

      1. Promoting Human Rights and Reducing Restrictive Practices
      2. Understanding Behaviour: A PBS Approach
      3. Observing Behaviour to Inform PBS Plans and Strategies
      4. Implementing Person-Centred Active Support (this module)

      This module is RRN Approved when part of a BILD ACT Certified Curriculum.

      Delivery methods:

      • eLearning eLearning
      • Classroom Classroom
      • Virtual Classroom Virtual Classroom
      • Train the Trainer Train the Trainer

    • Positive Approaches to Behaviour

      This module provides learners with positive and proactive approaches to managing behaviours of concern based on respect for the individual.

      Risks, Rights and Responsibilities

      • Behaviours of concern
      • Rights and responsibilities
      • Planning to reduce risks and vulnerabilities 

      Factors That Influence Behaviour

      • Common functions of behaviours of concern
      • Instinctive reactions to emotional or threatening situations
      • Potential triggers in self and others
      • Levels of escalation

      Positive Interactions and Choices

      • People's needs and expectations
      • Influencing positive outcomes
      • Overcoming barriers to communication

       This module is RRN Approved when part of a BILD ACT Certified Curriculum.

      Delivery methods:

      • eLearning eLearning
      • Classroom Classroom
      • Virtual Classroom Virtual Classroom
      • Train the Trainer Train the Trainer

    • Safer De‑escalation

      This module covers person-centred de-escalation strategies to alleviate a situation and prevent distress or behaviours of concern from escalating.

      Dynamic Risk Assessment

      • Maybo SAFER model
      • Risk identification
      • Informed decision-making

      De-escalation Skills

      • Positive, non-aggressive approaches
      • Safer positioning and teamworking skills 
      • Strategies to defuse, calm and resolve

      Personal Safety and Post-incident

      • Responding to behaviours of concern
      • Heightened risk indicators
      • Exit strategies in higher-risk situations
      • Post-event impact and responsibilities

      Delivery methods:

      • eLearning eLearning
      • Classroom Classroom
      • Virtual Classroom Virtual Classroom
      • Train the Trainer Train the Trainer

    • Personal Safety and Disengagement

      This module provides additional practical strategies for disengaging and reducing the risk of assault.

      It is relevant for employees whose roles require them to engage with people whose behaviour can be unpredictable.

      Risks, Rights and Responsibilities

      • Defining defensive skills and interventions
      • Risks of using physical skills
      • Authority for the use of physical skills
      • Individual and team responsibilities 
      • The importance of secondary strategies to reduce the need for physical skills

      Defensive Personal Safety Skills to Avoid Assault and Disengage

      • Training and operational risks associated with the use of Maybo physical skills
      • Low arousal positioning and defensive skills to avoid assault and reduce risk
      • Low arousal skills to release from wrist and clothing grips
      • Contextual applications of Maybo disengagement skills

       This module is RRN Approved when part of a BILD ACT Certified Curriculum.

      Delivery methods:

      • Classroom Classroom
      • Train the Trainer Train the Trainer

    • Redirection and Guiding

      This module provides additional low arousal redirection and guiding skills. 

      • Training and operational risks
      • Low arousal physical intervention skills to prompt or guide an individual
      • Low arousal physical intervention skills to re-direct an individual

       This module is RRN Approved when part of a BILD ACT Certified Curriculum.

      Delivery methods:

      • Classroom Classroom
      • Train the Trainer Train the Trainer

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    • The training design was based on a comprehensive Training Needs Analysis informed by a bespoke staff survey and review of incidents. It has been an incredibly thorough and risk/evidence-based approach. Evaluation of this training by security and clinical staff has been very positive.

      Brighton & Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust - Head of Security

    • We have seen a reduction in the number of reported physical assaults of 11% trust-wide so far and up to a 60% reduction in targeted wards.

      Brighton & Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust - Head of Security

    • Maybo has worked closely with BSUH to develop and enhance the violence reduction training we deliver to frontline staff. The passion, knowledge, commitment and support to the Trust and more generally in developing effective evidence-based violence reduction programmes for healthcare settings, mark them out as an organisation the Trust is pleased to continue to work with.

      Brighton & Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust

    • It has been a pleasure working with Maybo to coordinate St Mungo’s conflict management learning programme. This solution is ideal for staff and the pre and post support from Maybo is excellent.

      St Mungo's

    • Please make it known that the whole team had nothing but praise for the trainer and that even the “old hands” found it very stimulating as he raised issues in a very understandable way. May I comment that as a general rule, I have never known of any candidates coming away without having gained a lot from these refresher courses.

      Medirest Services - Security Manager

    • Maybo's licensed programme gives us the control and flexibility we need to train our staff effectively.

      Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Trust

    • Very happy with Maybo content and back-up services. I like how the content is aimed at the majority of staff and not just high end situations. The session content and layout of the presentations are a big improvement on previous training packages.

      Queensland Health - OVP Trainer

    • They have extensive demonstrated
      experience in the delivery of conflict resolution and
      assault avoidance training in the health care sector both in
      Australia, and around the world. It has a layered and blended approach. They provide a
      comprehensive training program to meet the needs of staff
      in different service areas, all are based on human rights.

      Queensland Health - OVP Trainer

    • Springboard would like to thank the Maybo team for delivering training to us. It was very useful, the feedback was very positive, and the trainer was excellent.

      PBS Mentor - Springboard Education

    • May I say a big thank you for the Maybo violence and aggression course for the ITU nurses. I attended the course today and it was excellent. I think the staff would all agree that the knowledge and skills taught will be hugely beneficial, but in addition, it was a great team-building exercise too. I feel it is imperative that all our ITU nurses attend this course.

      Ashford & St Peter's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - ITU Nurse

    • Maybo has great content relevant to hospital and health services. Experienced trainers were able to take-away some excellent strategies that can be delivered in such a way that feels comfortable and natural. The Maybo trainer was patient and informative and this was appreciated. Quality course/quality trainer.

      Queensland Health - OVP Trainer

    • Training was contemporaneous and provided contextually. Impressed with the overall content.

      Queensland Health - OVP Trainer

    • The Maybo Train the Trainer programme has enabled us to deliver Maybo’s excellent training to staff with our own trainers who have the knowledge and experience of the issues faced by the organisation. Staff in high-risk roles were given the confidence to deal safely with violent incidents.

      NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

    • Very professional instructors with good background knowledge of the Ambulance Service. Always willing to suggest solutions to possible problems.

      South Central Ambulance Service

    • The training package was facilitated clearly, concisely and in an easy to understand way. The trainer was engaging and knowledgeable of the course content and catered for the diverse group of learners really well. The trainer kept us on track and encouraged everyone to engage and bring their own experiences. We all had a fabulous week.

      Queensland Health - OVP Trainer

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