A mindfulness based leadership workshop.
February 21, 2020 0830 -1600 hrs
Emeryville Police Department
2449 Powell St, Emeryville, CA 94608
Tuition: $365
Enhance Sensemaking Under Pressure
An introduction to the science of mind-body and cognitive conditioning through mindfulness meditation. Experiential practice through guided meditation supported with discussions on scientific research to support resilience and human performance.
Reduce Reactivity
Explore how attention and compassion training can be integrated formally and informally into our leadership rhythms. We will look at strategies to train outcomes to include, yet not limited to, the ones below.
Discover Untapped Potential
- greater self-awareness
- skillful self-regulation
- a more skillful inner coach and reduced noise of the inner critic
- growth of self-compassion and compassion for others
- reduced judgement
- skillful discernment in sensemaking
Invest in Your Journey
We will explore the rhythms at the confluence of our professional and personal lives and plan achievable steps toward greater resilience and performance in both domains.
Mindfulness is the act of attending to the present-moment experience, with discernment, response intelligence, and clarity.
We train in these three organic domains:
Thinking Mind
Our brains are constantly thinking. This is normal. We train to work with these thoughts, no matter the speed, volume or content and no matter the operational conditions.
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.
Feeling & 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.
Patterns: With greater attunement to our mind and body we notice patterns that inform sense making, decision making and how we show up in the world in service to others. These patterns provide intelligence that also inform our rhythms of health, resilience and social connection.
Transforming our Inner Critic
Learn skills in awareness and compassion that lead to more skillful self-awareness, self-regulation, situational awareness and human performance.
Learn skills that can rewire non-helpful habits of thinking and create greater capacity for clarity and performance 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 leadership journey.
- Begin a sustainable, personal mindfulness practice that integrates into the rhythms of daily living at work and home.
- 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 retired police lieutenant, resilience and performance researcher, military veteran, and a certified mindfulness facilitator through the University of California Los Angeles.
Richard is an affiliate faculty member and part of a research team at Pacific University's School of Graduate Psychology. This team has published research around training mindfulness in policing and recently began a 4 year research and training project with the Albuquerque Police Department and Portland Police Bureau.
Richard has extensive experience succeeding and failing at leadership in the military, public safety, as an educator and as a social entrepreneur.
This training is brought to you through a collaboration between the Emeryville Police Department and the Mindful Badge Initiative.
Credits:
Created with images by Julian - "Bay Bridge" • zef art - "Police car chasing a car at night with fog background. 911 Emergency response police car speeding to scene of crime. Selective focus" • Connor Betts - "untitled image" • brettneilson - "Dispatch Center" • phonix_a - " Rescue helping injured team in confined space ." • Zen Photographer - "Drowning!" • alanbatt - "ambulance new york emergency" • skeeze - "soldier military uniform" • Jim Stapleton - "American flag on the ceiling"