Sunriver Workshop
February 23-24, 2022
0830 - 1630 hrs
Tuition: $375 USD
Tuition includes instruction, meals, and beverages at the workshop and access to an online learning portal to review covered material along with additional learning resources to support skill-building.
What is this MAT?
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 the warrior wisdom of the lived experience 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 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.
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 greater capacity to enter flow states under stress and optimize performance.
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.
Trainers
Workshop Trainer:
Richard Goerling is a certified mindfulness facilitator, researcher, coach, and veteran. Richard served in civilian law enforcement in the U.S. for twenty-four years and retired in 2019 as a police lieutenant. Richard has spearheaded the integration of mindfulness in public safety across the United States. He served over two decades in the United States Coast Guard, both active duty and reserve, retiring as a Commander. He has developed a training specialization in growth mindset, trauma competency, resiliency, and human performance.
Training Team Supporting Online Resources:
Renae Stevenson is a certified mindfulness facilitator, performance coach, and researcher. She is a retired police officer from British Columbia with over two decades of operational experience in surveillance, major crime, and secondments to GTF and CFSEU. Renae is a former professional hockey player, U-Sports dual athlete, and trains performance skills to both youth and elite athletes across Canada. She volunteers as a Board Member for the Canadian Mental Health Association in the Cowichan Valley.
Brian Shiers is a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator, psychotherapist, fitness trainer, and faculty member at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Registration Info
Open to personnel in police, fire, EMS, dispatch, corrections, military, medicine, social work, and other public health & safety professions.
February 23-24, 2022
Sunriver SHARC
Email us at info@mindfulbadge with any questions, and to inquire about scholarships or discounts for multi-seat registrations.
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