February 20, 2020 0800 to 1630hrs
Emeryville Police Department
2449 Powell St, Emeryville, CA 94608
Tuition: $165
What is this Workshop?
A journey into the resilience mindset and mindfulness skills practice in support of greater health and performance in every domain of our lives. Particularly focused on the occupational stress and trauma of the first responder, this course offers a practical and tactical approach to navigating the arch of the responder’s career with resilience. Discussions grounded in relevant data, contemporary scientific research, and the warrior wisdom of the lived experience will inform issues around stress, trauma, attention, compassion and performance.
The course delivers experiential learning through operationally relevant guided mindfulness practices that specifically address three key performance domains: the Thinking Mind, Emotions and Feeling States, and the Physical Body. Participants will explore each domain and understand how the consistent practice of mindfulness skills shifts our mindset around trauma and transforms our relationship to stressors at work and home.
Mindfulness is a category of mind and body training that explores the three different modes of attention and trains them to enhance new forms of concentration, self-awareness, compassion and situational awareness to enhance all cognitive, emotion regulation, tactical and interpersonal skills.
Mindfulness is the act of attending to the present-moment experience, with discernment, response intelligence, and clarity.
We train in these three arenas:
Thinking Mind
Our brains are constantly thinking. This is normal. We train to work with these thoughts, no matter the speed, volume or content. We stabilize and strengthen our attentional control toward greater capacity for focus, situational awareness and informed decision making.
Physical Body
Re-connecting to the physical body is key in our training. Learning to pay attention to our body is a critical resilience and performance skill. Drawing from the last decade of emerging interdisciplinary science, and from contemplative wisdom, we explore skills that improve attunement to the intelligence the body provides.
Affect & Emotion
Emotions: We all have them and we can't simply shut them off. We train awareness of both the physical experience and how we label emotion. This allows us to meet what's happening with less reactivity, greater discernment and equips us to better regulate our experiences of emotion and feeling states/affect.
Transform the Inner Critic - Cultivate the Inner Coach
Learn skills in awareness and compassion that lead to more skillful emotion and thought regulation.
Enhance your ability to focus amidst the noise in your head.
Learn skills that re-wire habits of thinking and create greater capacity to enter flow states under stress.
At the completion of this training, participants will be equipped to:
- Apply an understanding of current research on gratitude, compassion & mindfulness to one’s own personal and professional life.
- Begin a sustainable, personal mindfulness practice that integrates into the rhythms of daily living at work and home.
- Embody an authentic warrior-humanitarian ethos, grounded in the discipline of awareness, the practice of compassion, and a skilled professional acumen.
- Practice and sustain fundamental skills that foster self-awareness and self-regulation.
- Create and sustain a greater capacity for leadership of self and others.
Trainer
Richard Goerling is a resilience and performance trainer, researcher, a certified mindfulness facilitator, and a veteran. Richard served in civilian law enforcement for twenty-four years and retired in 2019 as a police lieutenant. He has developed a training specialization in first responder resiliency and human performance.
Over the last decade, Richard has spearheaded the introduction of mindfulness-based resilience training into policing in the United States and Canada as part of a larger cultural transformation toward a compassionate, skillful and resilient warrior ethos.
Richard is a co-investigator in ongoing National Institutes of Health funded research on the impact of mindfulness training for police officers. He holds an affiliate assistant professor appointment at Pacific University in the Graduate School of Psychology. Richard also holds an adjunct faculty position at Portland State University, Hatfield School of Government. He has earned a master’s degree in business administration and an undergraduate degree in economics.
When-Where-Registration
Open to first responders in police, fire, EMS, dispatch, medicine, social work, and other disciplines. Driver’s license / Passport or Military ID is required in order to gain access into the facility. Registration is required.
In Partnership with Chief Jennifer Tejada at the Emeryville Police Department.
Emeryville Police Department Training Room
2449 Powell St, Emeryville, CA 94608
February 20, 2020 0800 to 1630
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