View the response to a green, yellow, red or black flag of the Sensoa Flag System.
How to respond?
Green flag: how to respond?
- Don't stop the behaviour.
- There's no need to respond to healthy behaviour. If you do respond, send out a positive message.
- Name or question what you see or hear.
- Respond empathetically: discuss the feelings of all involved.
- Affirm the behaviour. Explain why.
Yellow flag: how to respond?
- Stop behaviour or distract.
- Name or question what you see or hear.
- Discuss the feelings of all involved.
- Affirm the aspects of the behaviour that are positive and explain why.
- Limit the aspect that is not OK and explain why.
- Agree on how things can be done and how to address them.
Red flag: how to respond?
- Stop the behaviour.
- Name the behaviour.
- Ask about the perceptions of all involved.
- Affirm the behaviour: what is OK and why.
- Limit the behaviour: say or show what is not okay and why.
- Negotiate agreements: how to deal with this in the future?
- Monitoring: increase supervision, suggest measures.
- Register internally.
- Provide follow-up care.
Black flag: how to respond?
- Stop the behaviour.
- Name the behaviour.
- Ask about the perceptions of all involved.
- Affirm the behaviour: what is OK and why.
- Limit the behaviour: say or show what is not okay and why.
- Negotiate agreements: how to deal with this in the future?
- Monitoring: increase supervision and act on measures.
- Register internally and externally.
- Provide follow-up care.
