Empowering BC Educators with The Mandt System®
Mandt for Schools
Mandt for Schools helps educators create safer, calmer, and more connected learning environments. The Mandt System teaches staff how to support students, not just their behaviours, so classrooms feel predictable and safe for everyone.
At West Coast Centre for Learning, we work with BC schools to deliver Mandt for Schools training to educational assistants, teachers, administrators, and support staff. The training is trauma-informed, neuroaffirming, and aligned with inclusive education values.
What is Mandt for Schools?
The Mandt System approach starts with the idea of supporting people, not just their behaviours.™ When you do this, you’re well on your way to creating a culture that provides for the emotional, psychological, and physical safety of everyone involved. It is based on treating everyone with dignity and respect. Our Mandt program gives you the tools to affirm your feelings and choose your behaviours™ so that you can keep yourself and others safe during challenging interactions.
Training for Educators
Mandt for Schools focuses on helping staff manage themselves first, then respond to student behaviour. By learning to notice early signs of escalation, educators can intervene sooner and use strategies that protect relationships as well as safety.
Key benefits of Mandt for Schools
✓ Support students with diverse learning and regulation needs
✓ Prevent and reduce incidents of aggression and crisis behaviour
✓ Build staff confidence in responding to challenging situations
✓ Strengthen school-wide culture, safety, and collaboration
✓ Provide language and tools that can be shared with students and families
- By preventing violence and aggression, students and staff are safer.
- By understanding the context of the behaviour of students, staff respond instead of react and address the safety needs of all people.
- Increase the quality of staff relationships and the therapeutic environment.
- Build confidence in responding to events and reduce fear in crisis situations.
- Create an environment of dignity and respect that support positive interactions with others.
- Support the development of positive attitudes and philosophy for crisis situations by all people certified in The Mandt System®.
- Reduce the frequency, intensity, duration and need of physical restraints incidents.
- Provide basic tools and techniques for a safe and respectful workplace.
- Reduce crisis incidents resulting in less workplace stress.
- Concepts and skills can be and should be taught to students and their families.
Relationship Based Crisis Interaction
Behavioural Crisis Interaction Training
Providing training for teachers, EA's, and administrative personnel. The various training programs help schools provide the skills needed to build positive healthy relationships, better understand issues for trauma and behaviour, and gain interaction skills for all students, including students at risk for disruptive or violent behaviour.
- Building Healthy Relationships — Foundational Beliefs, Working as a Team, Dealing with Emotions, Causes of Stress, and Crisis Cycle.
- Building Healthy Communication — Nonverbal Elements in Communication, Vocal Elements in Communication, Verbal Elements in Communication: Strategies for De-escalation.
- Building Healthy Conflict Resolution — Communicating through Problem Solving, Problem Solving Techniques.
- Trauma Informed Services – to help staff better work with people who have experienced trauma
- Positive Behavior Supports — Supporting people not just their behaviours
- One Day Training - $269/person
- We love visiting schools and having the opportunity to train all school staff in the Mandt System. Ask about our group discounts for 12+ participants and consider us for your next Professional Development Day.
- Please ask about our group discounts!
Certification is valid for 1 year.
- Recertification Training $179
- Our one day recertification training consists of the Relational training. Participants will be recertified in the Mandt System and receive a certificate of training.
Certification is valid for 1 year.
- Two Days Training - $399/person
- Our Two Day Training consists of the Relational/Conceptual chapters. As an add-on to the Relational Chapters we will cover the conceptual chapters where we teach on trauma informed care to help people become better at supporting the people they serve who are dealing with past or present trauma.
- We will learn about Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) which provides a specific framework to support people, not just their behaviours.
- Please ask about our group discounts!
Certification is valid for 1 year.
- One Day Training - $349
- Our One Day training consists of the Relational training and is conducted by our experienced certified trainers. Participants receive Mandt certification and a certificate of training.
Certification is valid for 1 year.
If you have more questions about our Mandt for Families program, feel free to contact us at the link below.
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Mandt for Schools is part of our Mandt System training pathway, alongside Mandt for the Workplace and Mandt for Families, offered through West Coast Centre for Learning in Surrey, BC..
Some photos from our training session May 19, 2023
