Basic Crisis Negotiation - Skill Based Training
October 25-28, 2010
Cost: $550 Members, $575 Non members
Location:  Minneapolis PD Training
4119 Dupont Avenue

Class hours 9:00-5:00pm.   Class limited to 18 students

Description: This course is design for the new negotiator or any negotiators wanting to brush up on their skills. Emphasis will be on theory application and skills develop through practice, role-play and scenario based training.  Students will leave with fundamental skills of crisis and hostage negotiations.  Topic areas of training will include definitions and history of negotiations, negotiations principles and guidelines, understanding relationships, key communication skills development, negotiations team make up, intelligence gathering, negotiation equipment, media & legal issues, stress and stress management, understanding mental illness for negotiators, suicide intervention, overview of the tactical team and operations and outside agency support, other negotiations issues and practical exercises.  Course will be limited in size to facilitate a skill enriched training environment. 

Learning Objectives:  Upon complete participants will learn the following:

  1. Know the history and development of negotiation techniques
  2. Overview of negotiation and tactical operations.
  3. Apply principles of crisis intervention and bargaining
  4. Understand characteristics of demands and importance of time
  5. Understand and dealing with the impact of stress
  6. In depth understanding of relationships and how it applies with crisis negotiations from the suspects, hostages, victims and negotiator.  Stockholm syndrome will be discussed
  7. Apply advance communication skills to enhance the positive outcomes in negotiations situations
  8. Overview and application of mental illness diseases models and impact of chemical influence of suspects
  9. Elements of suicide intervention will be apply to crisis negotiation
  10. Understand the make of a negotiations team and all the critical team players
  11. Role of intelligence gathering sources for negotiations
  12. Use of negotiations equipment: phone
  13. Awareness of legal and media issues
  14. Topics issues of knowledge will include terrorism, school & workplace settings & tactical role of negotiatior

Bio
Jonathan Bundt has worked in the mental health and law enforcement field for over 20 years and is the President of Masa Consulting, Inc., a company committed to quality training in law enforcement.  He is a licensed mental health professional dealing with mental health issues and involved in training negotiators.  Currently, he is an active member of the Minneapolis Police-Emergency Response Unit and the Hennepin County Sheriffs Office-Emergency Services Unit as a trainer and on-scene support advisor.  He has consulted and trained several local and regional police departments, Department of Corrections, Northwestern University Center for Public Safety and the FBI.

Prior to his involvement with law enforcement in the United States, he was a past Chief Inspector in the Israeli National Police-Border Patrol Division where he responded and trained Israeli and international law enforcement officials in the field of internal security, anti-terrorism, firearms, negotiations and close quarter combat instruction.

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