Course Description

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TACTICAL SOCIAL INTERACTION® TRAIN-THE-TRAINER

The researched-based, student-centered, non-lecture Tactical Social Interaction ® (TSI ®) program has been demonstrated to enhance the student's ability adapt to and navigate culturally diverse environments, as well as complex social situations, while maintaining strong tactical awareness. It places "stranger encounters" in a context that allows for simple steps to complete the planning stages to encounter and disengagement. TSI ® training enhances a student's self-awareness, analytical abilities, situation awareness, and interactive skills. The TSI ® Train-The-Trainer curriculum is designed as a 5-day, 40-hour, student-led adult learning process that facilitates cognitive and psychomotor learning opportunities. It gives the student the ability to experiment with, demonstrate, evaluate, and teach back tools of effective Tactical Social Interactions®. The curriculum's content is based on seven behavioral competencies for successful social encounters and is delivered using ill-structured problems, a team-led design with small student's units, student teach-backs, and community engagement pieces in which students observe and strategically engage in social encounters in a public setting while maintaining situational awareness.

The seven competencies are:

- Pre-Planning

- Observe/Assess

- Contact

- Engage

- Self-Control

- Adapt

- Disengagement

The competencies cover a wide range of abilities - everything from emotional and cultural intelligence, bias, and mental rehearsal methods, to surveillance, body language reading, and force de-escalation. Students who complete this course walk away with the materials and confidence to deliver a one-day training on strategic interactions and implicit bias to others in their career field or agency.