by John Riley | May 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Your size and shape can and will escalate a situation! A point I make in my training seminars is to encourage students to be aware of how they appear and come across to another person, especially if that other person is stressed and agitated. Larger, wider, taller...
by John Riley | Nov 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Police officer’s condescending tone of voice and attitude created and escalated stress during a “simple” traffic stop in June, 2019, in Connecticut. The officer stopped the vehicle for speeding, and as he makes contact with the driver, who sounded...
by John Riley | Jun 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Common basic body language in confrontational situations, it’s automatic and primal, it didn’t need to be taught to any human being, it just manifests itself when a person is agitated and stressed. Studies have shown that there are some universal body...
by John Riley | Mar 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
I created a training program in 2017 for armed church security personnel, and call it Decision Making Drills. I had observed that a vast majority of armed church security personnel go to the range a lot, and they shoot, and shoot, and shoot, and shoot some more…...
by John Riley | Feb 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Do you get so offended that you react emotionally? If you do, you are going to struggle greatly when it comes to trying to de-escalate a stressful encounter with an agitated, often times offended, person. Because when YOU are offended, and you allow yourself to...
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