De-escalation & Safety: Grounding Yourself After High-Stress Moments

De-escalation & Safety: Grounding Yourself After High-Stress Moments

A hands-on course designed to help healthcare professionals and frontline teams recover quickly after intense interactions. When your nervous system feels rattled, this course offers a clear, repeatable path back to calm, clarity, and control.

You’ll learn practical self-regulation tools—like breathwork, orienting, grounding techniques, micro-movements, and fast cognitive reframes—to help you reset in real time. We’ll explore simple, compassionate language for pausing, setting boundaries, and restarting conversations with safety and intention. You’ll map your personal stress cycle, recognize early warning signs, and build a post-incident reset routine you can use in under 60 seconds.

Expect immersive scenarios, role-play scripts, and a take-home toolkit that includes a personal safety plan, after-action debrief template, and team check-in prompts. These skills apply across care settings—for frontline staff to leaders to fieldwork the first response—and help you reduce escalation, protect relationships, and prevent burnout. You’ll leave with a grounded, confidence-building routine you can use anytime the pressure is on.

8 CE's upon completion

De-escalation and Safety

Introduction

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Recognizing Early Signs of Escalation

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Using Grounding Language

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Creating Emotionally and Physically Safe Environments

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Self-care and Reflection

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Conclusion

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Evaluation

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De-escalation & Safety: A Reflective Approach to Grounded Professional Practice is a self-paced, comprehensive online course

equips professionals with the skills to maintain calm, communicate with empathy, and create safe environments in moments of escalation.

Your enrollment includes:

Lifetime access to all 15 interactive modules
A downloadable guided journal to support self-reflection and skill integration
Professionally designed visuals and frameworks for real-world application
A personalized completion certificate for 8 Continuing Education Hours (CEUs)
Ongoing access to CEU Escape’s learning community for continued growth and support

This one-time investment provides unlimited access to your de-escalation toolkit — helping you maintain calm, safety, and confidence in any high-stress setting.

Your instructor

Teri Dart, MSN-Ed, RN, CEN, is a nurse educator and former emergency department leader with 25+ years in high-acuity care and continuing education. She has led teams through behavioral emergencies, code gray responses, and high-stress clinical moments, and she understands the emotional and physical toll these events take. That experience fuels her commitment to practical, compassionate strategies that keep patients, teams, and clinicians safe.

In De-escalation & Safety: Grounding Yourself After High-Stress Moments, Teri teaches the tools she’s relied on herself: trauma-informed communication, clear scripting, situational awareness, and quick, evidence-based grounding techniques you can use immediately after a surge of adrenaline. Her courses are down-to-earth, interactive, and focused on what actually works in real settings—so you leave with confidence, calm, and a plan to care for others without losing yourself.