HLIST — Hyper-Localized Integrated Security Training
A specialist one-day programme designed to complement HEAT and HEFAT training
Standard hostile environment training prepares you to survive a crisis. HLIST prepares you to avoid one.
Developed by frontline journalist Owen G Holdaway — whose field experience includes the Battle of Mosul — HLIST addresses the social, behavioural, and cultural risk layer that traditional security training doesn’t cover. Every scenario in the programme is drawn from real operational situations, not theory.
What HLIST covers
Six modules delivered in one day, designed to bolt directly onto existing HEAT or HEFAT courses or run as a standalone online workshop:
- Fixer evaluation — a structured six-point framework for assessing competency, reliability, and operational risk
- Expat and local integration — reading social dynamics and identifying trust and risk indicators in the field
- Reciprocal social capital — building useful relationships without compromising operational security
- Local access risk mapping — physical risk assessment in urban and rural conflict environments
- Danger threshold analysis — go/no-go decisions under pressure, colleague breakdown, and casualty situations
- Checkpoint and social navigation — behavioural strategies for high-risk encounters and charged interactions
Who it’s for
Journalists and media correspondents, NGO and humanitarian field staff, security and risk personnel, and corporate teams operating in complex or high-risk environments.
For training providers
HLIST is available to security training providers on a licensed basis as a bolt-on to existing HEAT programmes. It offers genuine market differentiation in a saturated sector. Licensing enquiries and pilot requests welcome.
Get in touch
To discuss a pilot, licensing arrangement, or individual booking, contact Owen directly