Empeiria Training is a Timian Academy and an approved provider of Positive Behaviour Management training. Our Senior Timian Instructors bring extensive real-world experience from health, education, and social care, delivering training that is both nationally certified and firmly grounded in practice.
For organisations that do not have their own in-house Timian-certified instructors, Empeiria delivers the Timian PBM Foundation curriculum directly to your workforce, in the classroom, in a hybrid format, or through our e-learning platform.
The Positive Behaviour Management Foundation Course provides an accessible, condensed introduction to the Timian PBM curriculum. It covers the key theoretical and knowledge-based elements from all five chapters of the Timian programme, giving participants a solid understanding of why people behave the way they do, how to build positive relationships, how to respond to behaviour that challenges, and how to do so within an ethical and legally informed framework.
This is a theory-only course. It does not include any practical physical skills training, and there is no competency assessment of protection, release, or physical intervention techniques. It is designed for staff who need a certified foundation in positive behaviour management principles, whether as a standalone qualification or as a precursor to further training.
The Foundation Course is available in three formats to suit different organisational needs: full face-to-face delivery in the classroom or entirely via our e-learning platform, available both as a self-paced course for individuals and as an organisation-wide licence.
Whether delivered in the classroom, in a hybrid format, or via e-learning, the Foundation Course provides a condensed introductory overview of all five chapters of the Timian PBM curriculum.
Classroom and hybrid sessions are interactive and discussion-based, drawing on real-world scenarios relevant to your setting. The e-learning version is self-paced and can be completed at a time and place that suits each learner.
The course introduces the following five core areas:
Building Relationships: The importance of building healthy relationships between staff, developing trust with the people being supported, active listening, empowering individuals, positive interactions, and recognising cultural norms and differences.
Understanding Behaviour: An introduction to defining behaviour, why we behave as we do, the role of communication, trauma-informed approaches, the functions of behaviour, and different cultural contexts.
Individual Response Strategies: An introduction to the Graduated Hierarchy of Intervention, the Four D's, the SPACED Model, body language and posture, eye contact, and the Crisis Cycle and its relationship to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Reducing Restrictive Practice: An introduction to defining restrictive practice, the Six Core Strategies for reducing it, data-informed practice, leadership, debriefing, and organisational reporting responsibilities.
Ethics, Law and Standards: An introduction to ethical decision-making, the difference between law and ethics, relevant legislation, human rights, professional codes of practice, and the role of organisational policy.
The PBM Foundation Course is suitable for all staff across health, education, and social care who would benefit from a certified introduction to positive behaviour management theory. It is particularly well suited to staff who do not require physical skills training as part of their role, or to organisations looking to provide a consistent, certified baseline of PBM knowledge across their entire workforce.
This course is a strong fit for:
Staff who require physical skills training, such as protection and release techniques or physical intervention holds, should progress to the PBM with Protection and Releases or PBM with Physical Intervention courses. If you are unsure which course or combination of courses is right for your organisation, please get in touch and our team will be happy to advise.
