4. No one should have to encounter violence at work, however, reports of threats and violence against staff in social services are on the increase. According to the Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll, all five Nordics nations are among the top ten countries where individuals experience violence and harassment at work: Finland (48%), Iceland (42%), Denmark (42%), Norway (42%), and Sweden (37%). It is also found that women are more likely than men to experience abuse while working in customer-facing sectors. While threats and violence in the workplace are unfortunately becoming more common, they can also be difficult to EdTech Company of the Year 2023 - Nordics Maria Bauer is an award-winning violence expert who has spent 20 years training in approach towards aggression and conflict management. She has over 30 years of experience in the legal, care, and social care sectors. Alongside sociologist and criminologist, Axel Fors, she founded Framvik in 2017, an education and innovation company developing a groundbreaking VR software called D-escalator, which provides training in conflict management. With great interest from Swedish media and a great number of clients. D-escalator has also been appreciated abroad and tried out of the judiciary in New York and Austria. Framvik is no stranger to praise. Now seeing success within the Scandinavian Business Awards 2023, we learn more about this cutting-edge technology and how it can transform the workplace. Apr23524 deal with. It can cause one’s subconscious stress response to kick in, where they may freeze or feel a need to fight or escape. With the help of virtual reality, it is possible to retrain your brain to not fall into that fight or flight response, but to shut down the situation before it can escalate to violence. Maria Bauer has a behavioral science degree and is a trained advisor, author, and Sweden’s leading lecturer in professional approach, treatment of threats and violence in the workplace. She has trained more than 200,000 people in Scandinavia, and for more than 20 years, has been trying to raise the question of how to treat and respond to violence and threat, and she has successfully got it on the agenda. Maria is an international violence expert and board member of UN Women Sweden, with Framviks’ edtech solution, D-escalator being an extension of her lifelong work against violence. She is joined at Framvik by co-founder, Axel Fors, who is a trained social worker with a Master of Arts in Criminology. He has worked at The National Board of Forensic Medicine and the Swedish Prison and Probation Service with violence prevention, as well as participated in various studies on the treatment of addiction and violent crime. Axel educates and supervises staff in fields such as social work, judiciary, healthcare, and welfare. Axel and Maria have come together to create the innovative D-escalator technology, which is an entirely one-ofits-kind and pioneering concept designed for employees working in sectors such as police, social services, private care, education, retail, hospital, security, and more. Also playing an ongoing key role in the software’s development is a team of 20 experts whose specialisms extend from medicine and behavioral science to criminology, law, and economics. This is in addition to civil engineers, 3D artists, and programmers. The mission for the whole team is to contribute to creating peaceful and inclusive societies, with an ultimate goal to end violence in the world. “We are unlike every other edtech, putting knowledge about violence before everything else. Our VR training is the perfect solution to give the user experience-based knowledge. But the solution is not the most important thing; the mission is. We have ground-breaking technology that is unique.”
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