2-Day Workshop
Tuition includes instruction at the workshop and access to an online learning portal (accessible from any browser as well as a smartphone app) to review covered material along with additional learning resources to support ongoing skill-building. This resource will be accessible for one year from the date of training and will include updates throughout the year.
What is Mindful Agility Training?
Growth Mindset & Trauma Competency Skills Training.
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 public safety and public health first responder.
This 2-day workshop offers a practical and tactical approach to navigating the arch of the responder’s career with grounded resilience. Discussions centered around relevant data, contemporary scientific evidence, and warrior wisdom will inform issues around stress, trauma, attention, compassion, and other concepts critical to optimal health and performance.
Mindfulness is the act of attending to the present-moment experience, with discernment, response intelligence, and clarity.
We train in these three areas:
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.
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.
Participants will explore each domain and understand how the consistent practice of mindfulness skills shifts our mindset around trauma and transforms our relationship to stress and trauma.
Cultivate the Inner Coach
Enhance your ability to focus amidst the noise in your head. Learn skills to transform the inner critic into your inner coach.
Enhance Possibilities for Performance
Learn skills that re-wire habits of thinking and create a greater capacity for cognitive clarity and to enter flow states under stress.
Training Objectives:
- Understand how the current landscape of research literature endorses the benefits of mindfulness within public safety and public health.
- Apply a new understanding of the interpersonal neurobiology of occupational stress, trauma recovery, and optimal performance.
- Understand occupational stress injury and the interventions necessary to move into recovery, healing, and set conditions for post-traumatic growth.
- Move toward a sustainable growth mindset and begin to build trauma competency skills.
- Train toward a skillful inner coach; understand, and work with self-criticism.
- Explore strategies to create and sustain a greater capacity for leadership of self and others.
- Develop knowledge and skills to build a plan to integrate mindfulness skills into the rhythms of daily living.
- Understand the difference between compassion and empathy and how to build both compassion skills and boundaries with empathy.
Trainers
Richard Goerling is a certified mindfulness facilitator, researcher, coach, and 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 growth mindset, trauma competency, resiliency, and human performance. Over the last decade, Richard has spearheaded the introduction of mindfulness-based resilience training into public safety in the United States and Canada.
Richard is a co-investigator in ongoing National Institutes of Health (NIH) 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.
Registration Info
Open to personnel in police, fire, EMS, dispatch, medicine, public health, social work, military, and other disciplines. Registration is required.
Email us at info@mindfulbadge.com with any questions about the workshop.
Credits:
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