Situational Awareness & Behavioural Observation
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Are you ready to strengthen your personal safety by improving how you observe people, read environments, and recognise behavioural change before situations develop?
Most people never receive structured training in observation or behavioural recognition. They rely on instinct alone.
The Brain Game applies behavioural science, operational awareness principles, and practical habit development methods to help build awareness that becomes more consistent under everyday conditions.
Built around short repeatable drills designed to improve recognition, judgement, environmental awareness, and personal safety without adding complexity to daily life.
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Option 1 – Full Course – Skills for Life – 9 CPD
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Also available as individual modules
.Option 2 – Individual Modules
Module 1 & 2 – Building Your Awareness Foundations
This is where everything starts. You’ll understand the reality and core foundations of situational awareness and behavioural observation, learning how awareness levels really work and how psychology explains what people see, miss, and misinterpret.
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Module 3 – Understanding Behaviour & Staying in Control
How to recognise social engineering and elicitation tactics as they happen and apply a rapid decision-making framework that helps you stay calm, focused, and in control under pressure. This is where awareness is an informed judgement.
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Module 4 & 5 – Detecting What Doesn’t Fit
These two modules train you to develop the essential skill of baselining and understanding what “normal” looks like so anomalies stand out instantly.
You move from observing behaviour, to spotting what others miss.
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Module 6 – Making Awareness Automatic
This module strengthens the psychology behind the Brain Game. Using 10 to 30 second cognitive training repetitions, you’ll learn how to sharpen your ability to process information quickly and make faster, more reliable decisions without overthinking.
It’s about shifting your skills from effort, to instinct.
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Module 7 – Rapid Environment & People Baselining
Advanced observation techniques for baselining at speed and help you form a clear, structured understanding of what’s happening around you in real time.
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Module 8 & 9 – Embedding Advance Levels of Awareness & Behavioural Observation
These final modules bring everything together. You’ll follow a structured training pathway, understand pattern recognition, deeper baselining techniques, and start applying cognitive rep exercises designed to hardwire situational awareness and behavioural observation into second nature.
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Quick Awareness & Observation Evaluation – Learn More
- Takes 2 minutes
- 10 Questions
- Immediate feedback
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Course Format:
- On Demand eLearning
- Video presentation on all lessons.
- Core written content
- Example scenarios
- Cognitive rep exercices
- Audio discussion on all lessons
- Knowledge check after each module
- CPD Certificate after full course option
- Certificate of attendance after each individual module option
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Organisations looking to develop your team with a corporate account
- Cost-effective training at scale
- Consistent delivery across departments and global teams
- Contact us for tailored rollout and group discounts
➔ Real-World Impact
Manchester Arena Bombing (2017) – Witnesses noticed the attacker’s unusual behaviour yet lacked a system to interpret, act and report on their observations effectively.
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Optional Course Pre-reading Links
Course Author & Instructor
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Anthony Gledhill
Over 20 years in private sector security, from frontline media operations through to designing and delivering capability within government VIP protection units, and leading security systems across defence, construction, and oil & gas in benign, active insurgent, terrorist, and hybrid threat environments.
Supporting organisations responsible for high risk operations, critical infrastructure, and complex environments. Translating security risk into cost, time, and commercial impact, so decisions protect both operations and performance.
I work selectively with organisations serious about performance and long term impact.
Decisive judgement. Proven frameworks. Delivery that works.
Useful Links:
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Battlefield to Boardroom Systems; Transform the way your team thinks – Learn More