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One move at a time,
from the person who teaches it.

Short videos from Alfredo Fuccilli, M.S., BCBA — Curriculum Director at The Steady Method. These are the same ideas that run through the training day and the daily lesson: how to read the escalation curve, and what to say once you have. Prevention and verbal skill only. Nothing here teaches a physical technique.

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Alfredo Fuccilli, our Curriculum Director, on what this method is and what it refuses to be.

Who I am

0:41

The escalation slope

1:24

The mistake

1:29

Validation is not agreement

1:15

What we actually sell

1:20

Why we teach no physical technique

1:12

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Week one · Reading the curve

Spotting the phase you are actually in — before the one you are heading for.

Baseline is the job

1:02

The thirty-second habit

1:11

Five to one

1:05

Winning in the trigger phase

1:12

What escalation actually looks like

1:08

Crisis is not teaching time

1:10

The phase everyone skips

1:12

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Week two · What to say

The verbal toolkit, one move at a time.

Lower, slower, fewer words

1:00

Four breaths

1:04

Validation, not agreement

0:34

Two real choices

0:58

Empathy + Limit + Choice

1:07

State the limit once

1:03

Five seconds of silence

1:08

Print it, pin it

The five phases, on one page.

Every participant leaves the training day with this. The point of it is in the last line: the right skill, one phase too late, is what makes things worse.

The Five Phases of Escalation: Baseline, Trigger, Escalation, Crisis, Recovery — with the staff response for each phase

Watching is not the same as being able to do it at 3am.

That is what the training day and the daily practice are for. One day on site, then five minutes every morning and a scored competency check every 30 days. $249 per person, one time, all in.