Vistelar's Conflict Management Webinar
In today’s world, healthcare facilities are increasingly viewed as soft targets in active shooter and workplace violence events. With open access environments, vulnerable patient populations, and often limited or unarmed security staff, hospitals and clinics face unique challenges in ensuring safety.
This webinar, led by nationally recognized tactical and conflict management expert Dave Young, co-founder of Vistelar and author of Protecting Patients and Staff: Unarmed Response to Active Shooters in Healthcare—delivers practical, proven strategies to stay safe without a weapon.
You’ll learn how to recognize warning signs before violence erupts, how to protect staff and patients without escalating panic, and how to embed unarmed response into your facility’s emergency plan.
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When you attend the webinar you will receive an offer for a discount on Dave's new book, Protecting | Patients and Staff: Unarmed Response to Active Shooters in Healthcare | The Playbook for Survival plus a valuable FREE additional gift!
Dave Young is a nationally recognized expert in personal safety, defensive tactics, and unarmed crisis response with over 30 years of combined experience in law enforcement and the U.S. Marine Corps. As the VP of Training he is a co-founder of Vistelar, Dave has trained thousands of professionals across military, civilian, and healthcare sectors, with a special focus on preparing frontline healthcare teams for real-world threats.
A survivor of violent encounters himself, Dave brings both compassion and hard-earned expertise to his training. His work has been featured on CNN, Fox News, and National Geographic, and his approach is grounded in practical, high-stress-tested techniques.
Dave is the author of How to Defend Your Family and Home and the new resource Playbook for Survival, which delivers life-saving strategies for unarmed response to active threats in healthcare settings. His mission is simple: increase survivability by teaching others how to recognize danger, stay calm, and respond with confidence.
Dave Young
(Co-founder, author, and presenter)
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What I like most about the Vistelar training program is it is different from the ground up than most other training programs. Instead of simply telling learners to “Set Limits,” it helps them learn how to communicate limits effectively with usable scripts. Next, the program offers better defensive and physical management strategies. Oftentimes, training programs will offer “safe” training on how to defend oneself or how to regain physical control of a person acting out in crisis. This training is “safe” in that it limits the realism to hide the fact that it would not be successful if needed in a real-world environment with a real person acting out. Vistelar is different. Its training is easy to follow and gives the participants real options for both their personal safety AND that of the person in crisis. It’s just better!!
Vice President, Security Training & Compliance
Blackstone Consulting, Inc - the principal security provider for Kaiser Permanente