The poster illustrates efforts to prevent and reduce coercion by organizing and training of staff. Three different kind of staff instructors, all with a great experience in clinical psychiatry, teach and train new staff in how to prevent and reduce coercion.New staff members participate in a mandatory course, in how to prevent and reduce conflicts and the use of restraint consisting of 5 days split over a period of 6 months, from the beginning of their employment.The staff instructors train the new staff through bedside teaching from day one in the wards and continuously on the mandatory course. ­­­The instructors contribute to the content and dialogue on the mandatory course, based on the latest research and knowledge on reducing coercion, best practice and recent identified challenges in the work to reduce coercion.