Mindful Agility Training (MAT) A workshop for public safety professionals.

Mindfulness is the act of attending to the present-moment experience, with discernment, response intelligence, and clarity.

We train in these three areas:

The Thinking Self

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.

The Physical Self

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.

The Emotional Self

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 emotions. This allows us to meet what's happening with less reactivity, greater discernment, and more skillful self-regulation.

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.

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.
• Develop a growth mindset and 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.
• Understand new possibilities & strategies toward individual and organizational resiliency.
• Build a plan to integrate mindfulness skills into the rhythms of daily living.
• Embody an authentic warrior-humanitarian ethos, grounded in the discipline of awareness, the practice of compassion, and a skilled professional acumen.