WEVAS® Working Effectively with Violent & Aggressive States
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WEVAS® Courses
NEW: WEVAS® 2.0 Online Certification Course
Developed by Canadian Psychologists employed as provincial emotional/behavioural specialists (Est. 1993).
WEVAS® 2.0 skills are an integral part of developing peaceful, safe, and caring environments.
Learn WEVAS® 2.0 skills to prevent and deescalate anxiety, agitation, aggression and assault.
Return yourself and others to an optimal attentive, attuned, competent state using WEVAS® 2.0 communication skills and responses.
Support and peacefully interact with people experiencing a diversity of needs (emotional, intellectual, cognitive, behavioural, physical, mental health, medical).
Certify for employment purposes.
Develop personally and professionally. Experience healing.
About Our Courses
Course Options:
In-person
Group sizes: 18-24 participants typical; number flexibility.
WEVAS® activities are done with the entire class and in small groups of 6, 3, 2, and individual participants.
Two days (12 hours, 5 modules) Attentive/Attuned, Anxious, Agitated (Level 1 &2), Aggressive
Three days (18 hours, 7 modules) Attentive/Attuned, Anxious, Agitated (Level 1 &2), Aggressive, Assaultive, Aware
Note: Facilities may offer the course in a modular format with multiple 3-hour sessions, each session covering one module.
All participants who complete an in-person and/or online course will receive a certificate when all modules, taken in order, are completed.
The WEVAS® certificate is often requested by employers for job applications, and evidence of professional development.
Online
Self-paced, activity-based (aprox. 12 hours, 7 modules)
Attentive/Attuned, Anxious, Agitated (Level 1 & 2), Aggressive, Assaultive (does not include protective strategies), Aware
WEVAS® uses a “process teaching” format that allows people to identify effective skills that they have developed already and to become aware of the impact of some of their less effective strategies.
Throughout the training participants have the opportunity to share their effective skills with others, to develop new skills, and to practice these.
Participants have the opportunity to learn the skills needed to continue assessing and developing new skills as they interact with children/youth/adults.
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WEVAS® Training Format
The following WEVAS® Certified Facilitators have submitted their names and contact information for you to contact directly:
Michelle Bradley-Bahuaud (WEVAS® 2.0), Psychologist
Contact for WEVAS® Trainer-of-Facilitators
Trevor Holroyd (WEVAS® 2019) School Administrator, MITT Instructor, Manitoba Child Care Association
Lisa Hurl (WEVAS® 2.0) and Beth Evans (WEVAS® 2019) Behaviour Specialists, Early Childhood Education Centres
Barbara Kaiser (WEVAS® 1.0) Author, Consultant, Nova Scotia, Canada
Andrew Robson (WEVAS® 2019) Autism Behaviour Specialist
Barry Wolfe (WEVAS® 2019) 1-204-895-7930 School Counsellor, St. James Assiniboia Continuing Education
Chris Zacharko (WEVAS® 2019) 1-204-391-7911 Student Support, Instructor at Red River College, Canada
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Find a Facilitator & Course
Are you ready to take a WEVAS® certification course?
WEVAS® Certified Facilitators offer courses on a regular basis around Winnipeg and throughout Manitoba.
WEVAS® Certified Facilitators are available across Canada.
Contact your local school division, college, or university to find out when their next certification course will be offered.
WEVAS® 2.0 is current with NEW activities and content. WEVAS® 1.0 is original material, latest revision in 2019.
WEVAS® Works
Exciting things are happening in the WEVAS® World.
NEW: WEVAS® Online Certification Course
NEW: WEVAS® 2.0 Facilitator Training Course: 5 days October 2-3-4, 17&18, 2024, Winnipeg, MB
WEVAS® 2.0 has a new focus, new activities, and requires re-certification.
Sign-up now. Registration complete when payment received.
The Power of Presence to Transform Education - A WEVAS® book coming soon.