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Hand-to-Hand Combat and The Danger of Entering Condition Red
In December 2013, Army Major Tyson Walsh stopped an attack on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan by identifying a person who stood out from the baseline…
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Patrick Van Horne
Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 6
This is the sixth of a six-part exercise to read the behavior of both sides of a conversation using an incident where police officers were called to a…
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Patrick Van Horne
Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 5
This is the fifth of a six-part exercise to read the behavior of both sides of a conversation using an incident where police officers were called to a…
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Patrick Van Horne
Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 4
This is the fourth of a six-part exercise to read the behavior of both sides of a conversation using an incident where police officers were called to a…
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Patrick Van Horne
Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 3
This is the third of a six-part exercise to read the behavior of both sides of a conversation using an incident where police officers were called to a…
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Patrick Van Horne
Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 2
This is the second of a six-part exercise to read the behavior of both sides of a conversation using an incident where police officers were called to a…
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Patrick Van Horne
Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 1
This is the first of a six-part exercise to read the behavior of both sides of a conversation using an incident where police officers were called to a…
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Patrick Van Horne
Close Proximity Limits Reaction Time
In today’s video, we will focus on the need to develop intuitive recognition of pre-event indicators of violence when in close proximity to people you…
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Patrick Van Horne
Exercise: Assessing Individual People Using a Bottom-Up Analysis
Here is one of our favorite exercises and one that we get the most amount of benefit from. Generally speaking, here is what it is: You are going to…
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Patrick Van Horne
Being Aware Of the Stressors You Provide To Others
In today’s exercise, we are going to look at the shift from fight to flight in a confrontation while skiing. Video Source: YouTube - Thanks to B.P. (a…
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Patrick Van Horne
Identifying Discomfort While Waiting In Line
In this video, you will see people waiting in line to order pizza at a Pizza Port restaurant in Southern California on a busy Friday night in the…
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Patrick Van Horne
Identifying Triggers To The Escalating Intensity of Behavior
In this exercise, we are going to focus on the importance of identifying an escalation in intensity of the dominant cluster and how it impacts threat…
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Patrick Van Horne
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