WEVAS®, Low Arousal, and NCI - Nonviolent Crisis Intervention, all teach de-escalation skills, however, WEVAS® is a "hands-off" model which teaches personal practices and protective skills in the Assaultive State rather than "restraints" or "holding skills." WEVAS® 2.0 focuses on prevention and de-escalation of self and others by helping individuals to connect to their calming presence and using their awareness to shift out of fear and into peacefulness. WEVAS® 2.0 is consistent with Manitoba Education's Policy Directive (2021) to minimize the use of seclusion and to avoid physical restraint. While WEVAS® 2.0 is proactive and preventative; it also teaches both intra- and inter-personal responsive review and follow-up processes. WEVAS® 2.0 is both personal and professional development that offers us the pieces that have been missing from all other approaches so that the peaceful states we desire are finally attainable.

WEVAS® is the only training program that teaches you to develop your awareness and presence, which is your most powerful tool to de-escalate yourself and others. WEVAS® helps you to close the "knowing/doing" gap by providing you with direct experiences during the training in order to feel the shift within yourself. This begins the process of change that will reduce and eventually eliminate out-of-control student behavior and educator burn-out. Parents experience the changes within themselves that allow them to interact with their children in a manner that materializes the calm and peace they desire. Anyone interacting with the public become adept at de-escalation and easy interactions using simple WEVAS® strategies.

WEVAS® 2.0 has new activities and participant materials. It teaches participants how to become aware of their thoughts and emotions that are related to the situations they are experiencing in their lives. WEVAS® 2.0 teaches participants how to transform their thoughts and their energy in order to create the peace that they desire, in both their internal and external environments. For beginners, WEVAS® 2.0 starts you on your journey to deepen your connections. For people who are more advanced, WEVAS® 2.0 allows you to amplify your healing work within yourself extending that to the world.

Just because your WEVAS® training was recent does not mean that you have certified in the current, updated WEVAS® model. WEVAS® 2.0 was released in 2023 and contains new activities, readings, and presentations. Previously certified WEVAS® Facilitators must recertify in order to offer WEVAS® 2.0 training. Your certificate should state the version of WEVAS® in which you were trained, the date you completed training, the number of hours of the course you completed, and the signatures of the Facilitators who provided your training. Before you enrol in a WEVAS® course, you are encouraged to verify that it is a WEVAS® 2.0 course in order to learn the current model with the focus on skills to be self-aware, deescalate and centre yourself, and strategies to deescalate others.