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by WTS Staff & Consultants
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Assessing and Managing Workplace and Campus Violence Risk
with the WAVR-21 V3
Conducted by WAVR-21 Co-developers Drs. Stephen White and Reid Meloy.
Produced by eWAVR Partners, LLC and hosted by Intuit at their Mountain View site.
Jan. 27th & 28th, 2026
Cost: $755 through Dec. 22 (5% off full price of $795)
- 5% additional discount for “TAP” members: ATAP, CATAP, AETAP, and APATAP. Coupon Code: TAP5
- Discounted rate for active members of Law Enforcement: $150. Contact Cindy Reacer (creacer@wavr21.com) for the code (active law enforcement only). No other discounts for law enforcement.
- To enter a discount code, please check the box at the bottom of the registration page that says “Have a coupon?” in blue.
For more information and to register: https://wavr21.com/trainingfaq/
to maximize their continuing learning and growth.
Have you had training from experts, including perhaps from us? Have you attended conferences and bench-marked with other threat assessment practitioners and organizations? What’s next?
Consider a private workshop in which your threat assessment team prepares your own case presentations and then engages with us in a technical debriefing.
The best lessons and insights for you and your team ultimately come from your own case experience. If you include outside threat assessment experts to consult on cases, you hopefully learn even more from their perspective and contribution.
We have practiced post-case debriefs for years and are increasingly recommending it. The cases may still be active, but are more often considered resolved or inactive.
Among its advantages, this format illuminates the nuances in assessment strategies and case management that are particular to an individual organization, its culture, and its in-house practitioners. We can personalize teaching points and go beyond what is accomplished in general threat assessment workshops or public trainings. Discussing your own cases also provides a great way to improve assessment skills using the WAVR-21 V3.
The workshops are usually a full day and may include up to five or more cases that the team has prepared. In-depth discussion typically identifies obstacles and opportunities at various levels and how an organization’s threat management program and protocol may be improved.
Threat assessment consists of general principles, but threat scenarios present a wide variety of individual differences – in subjects of concern, targets and their expectations, and work environments and topography – calling for flexibility in response and selected interventions.
Threat assessment teams in organizational settings ideally meet regularly to discuss new and ongoing cases. But they rarely get an opportunity for a “retreat” with an expert to delve more deeply into their more challenging cases and the inherent “lessons learned” opportunities such exercises offer.
- Typical issues that teams address or recognize in their case presentations:
- Disagreements on opinion of risk among team members
- Information silos: Strategies to identify and collect useful data
- Recognizing bias errors and process flaws such as “disciplinary drift”
- Interviewing strategies with different kinds of subjects, for example individuals that are paranoid, very litigious, intimidating, or suicidal
- Identifying the possible unintended consequences of actions taken in a given case
- Communicating findings and managing fear, especially when a team’s objective opinion of risk differs from concerned clientele
- Managing one’s own emotions and personal concerns as a team member
- Identifying thresholds for appropriate engagement of threat assessment experts
- How different cases would be coded on the WAVR-21, and how to weigh and integrate findings
The critiques and discussions are conducted respectfully, as we offer teaching points and raise questions for attendees’ consideration. Threat assessment lives on information and collaboration. Attendees often come to recognize how collecting more reasonably available information leads to better-informed case management decisions. As an alternative to in-person workshops, webinars can be arranged, and are especially effective if scheduled periodically. We emphasize that the advanced case debriefing workshops are best suited for existing teams that have had some basic training in threat assessment and have some demonstrated experience working together.
For further information and pricing please contact Dr. Stephen White: swhite@swtsglobal.com.
Modular TAM Training
Dr. Meloy and Molly Amman have recently released two-day modular training on TAM available virtually through Specialized Training Services For more information and to purchase: https://specializedtraining.com/product/the-power-of-prevention/
A one-day crash introduction conducted by WAVR co-developer
Dr. Stephen White
will focus on the instrument’s practical application including a range of case examples and engaging vignettes
This workshop is produced by Specialized Training Services and is part of a 3-day event that includes
Dr. Reid Meloy
who will present his 2-day program of
Advanced Threat Assessment & Management
When: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Where: Charlotte, North Carolina
When registering you have the option to select which days you want to attend
Please go to this link to register and for additional details
Early bird, “TAP” and ASIS members discounts
Attendees newly familiar with the instrument are strongly encouraged to purchase a copy of the WAVR-21 manual and the accompanying forms before the workshop. These are available through the publisher, Specialized Training Services www.specializedtraining.com.
Initial meeting of
The Northern California Threat Management Group
A multi-disciplinary network for violence prevention among federal and local law enforcement, corporations, educational institutions, and governmental entities
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Stephen White
“A Perspective on 35 Years of Threat Assessment Practice:
Informed Collaboration Overcomes Missed Opportunities”
When: Thursday, February 27, 2025
Where: YouTube, San Bruno site
For further details and to register for in-person attendance, click here.
For further details and to register for virtual attendance, click here.
NorCal TMG is part of the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC)
WAVR-21 and Advanced Threat Assessment Training
Specialized Training Services is proud to present a three-day Advanced Threat Management Training in Seattle, Washington, and Virtually via Zoom on October 1, 2 and 3, 2024.
Click Here to learn more.AND a two-day training on Advanced Threat Assessment & Threat Management: Front Line Defense for Evolving Threats with Dr. Reid Meloy.
Click Here to learn more
Register for in-person or virtual and for October 1st only, October 2nd & 3rd only, or for all 3 days.
For more information and to enroll, please visit: https://specializedtraining.com/product/wavr-21-and-advanced-threat-assessment-training/
The WAVR-21 in Europe
Mr. Bram van der Meer
Please Note: Both workshop trainers will present in-person, contrary to previous posts.
Available in-person or virtually
Understand the realities of Europe’s workplace risk of harm landscapeLearn proper framing of threat assessment principles in European contextsThe training will include in-depth reviews & discussion of actual threat assessment cases in European workplacesHow to help managers with fear-inducing problems with aggressionLearn common errors in engagement, communication & training designThe fundamentals of the WAVR-21 risk factors will be illustrated with case examples and engaging vignettesCase studies of targeted violence in European settings & workplaces will illuminate problems in understanding and detecting warning signs
This first of-its-kind offering will provide a European-oriented WAVR-21 training, taking into account important cultural, legal, and risk scenario differences between North America and European countries.
Read more about the workshop content, especially valuable for security professionals working for USA organizations and assigned to European sites and regions.
Discounts for “TAP” members (AETAP and others) and active law enforcement.
To register, contact Mr. Bram van der Meer: vandermeer@dantespsychology.com.
For questions about the workshop per se, contact either Mr. van der Meer, or Dr. White @ swhite@swhitephdapc.com.