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Mindful Public Safety

Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety

Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety provides research-based training/consulting in Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI’s) such as Mindfulness-Based Wellness & Resiliency (MBWR).
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Lt. Richard Goerling (Ret.): Mindfulness and Working Smart
Lt. Richard Goerling (Ret.): Mindfulness and Working Smart
May 16 2022
59 mins
Lt. Richard Goerling (Ret.): Mindfulness and Working Smart
Lt. Richard Goerling (Ret.): Mindfulness and Working Smart
Lt. Richard Goerling, on Cultivating Mental Fitness and Resilience speaking with Fleet Maull Retired Coast Guard Commander & Police Officer and founder of Mindful Badge, who developed the mindfulness-based resilience program in Hillsboro, Oregon for police, fire-rescue and other first responders, Lt. Richard Goerling talks about his 31-year career as a first responder and working smart in a profession where high stress and trauma exposure come with the territory. The important distinction between having a growth mindset or a fixed mindset and the possibilities for post-traumatic growth. How mindfulness practice supports optimal performance, while also supporting resilience, health and wellbeing for first responders. Working smart includes physical, mental and emotional self-care... transforming the stigmas associated with first responder mental health. For more info on our training programs visit mindfulpublicsafety.org    You can have LIFETIME ACCESS to the Global First Responder Resilience Summit with Audio Downloads & Transcripts, featuring world-class experts in Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Fitness, and Resilience. Click Here To Learn More!
May 16 2022
59 mins
Mitchell Abrams, MD: Bio-Hacking Resilience for First Responders
Mitchell Abrams, MD: Bio-Hacking Resilience for First Responders
Mitchell Abrams, MD on Cultivating Physical Fitness and Resilience speaking with Fleet Maull Physician, Radiologist, and Founder and CEO of NexGenHealth Ltd., Dr. Mitchell Abrams shares his remarkable journey through western healthcare, as a physician, division chief and open-heart surgical patient. Through these experiences, he has been afforded an intimate look into our current healthcare model and a unique perspective on life. The importance of shifting preventive approaches to health and wellness for first responders in a healthcare system focused on technology and the economics of curative medical treatment. Developing integrative, evidence-based, whole person (body-mind-spirit) approaches for enhancing resilience and wellbeing for first responders that include new biohacking and wearable technologies. Normalizing smart self-care to mitigate the health risks associated with the ongoing exposure to high stress and trauma experienced by first responders. For more info on our training programs visit mindfulpublicsafety.org  You can have LIFETIME ACCESS to the Global First Responder Resilience Summit with Audio Downloads & Transcripts, featuring world-class experts in Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Fitness, and Resilience. Click Here To Learn More!
Apr 25 2022
48 mins
Olivia Mead: Yoga for Nervous System Regulation
Olivia Mead: Yoga for Nervous System Regulation
Olivia Mead on Cultivating Physical Fitness and Resilience speaking with Katie Carlson Founder of Yoga For First Responders (YFFR), yoga trainer for the Los Angeles police and fire departments, Olivia Mead, talks about her yoga training and health and wellness work with first responders. A growth model of resilience, leveraging stress for human growth and potential. Developing optimal physiological, autonomic nervous system regulation and balance through yoga training. Understanding and training resilience on the basis of the neuro-physiological science of coherence and flow states. For more info on our training programs visit mindfulpublicsafety.org    You can have LIFETIME ACCESS to the Global First Responder Resilience Summit with Audio Downloads & Transcripts, featuring world-class experts in Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Fitness, and Resilience. Click Here To Learn More!
Apr 11 2022
36 mins
Dan Brulé: Breathwork for Self-Regulation
Dan Brulé: Breathwork for Self-Regulation
Dan Brulé on Cultivating Physical Fitness and Resilience speaking with Fleet Maull Navy veteran, deep sea diver, emergency medical rescue specialist and breathwork pioneer, Dan Brulé, discussed the profound benefits of breathwork for self-regulation, high performance, resilience, healing and wellbeing. The importance of breath awareness, diagphragmatic breathing and deep breathing for basic health and wellbeing. The power of breathwork for self-regulation and optimal performance in the kinds of high-stress performance situations faced by first responders on a regular basis. The critical need to build small rest and recovery loops into our daily activities and more extensive rest and recovery periods at night, on weekends and annual time away from work. For more info on our training programs visit mindfulpublicsafety.org    You can have LIFETIME ACCESS to the Global First Responder Resilience Summit with Audio Downloads & Transcripts, featuring world-class experts in Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Fitness, and Resilience. Click Here To Learn More!
Mar 28 2022
1 hr
Shannon McQuaide: Firefighters and Stress
Shannon McQuaide: Firefighters and Stress
Shannon McQuaide on Cultivating Physical Fitness and Resilience, speaking with John MacAdams Functional movement trainer, certified yoga teacher, behavioral health coach, and daughter of a 34-year-firefighter veteran, Shannon McQuaide, shares her FireFlex Yoga work with firefighters, using science-based yoga techniques to de-escalate stress and to support peak performance in high-risk environments. Curated functional movement and yoga practices for healing common occupation injuries experienced by firefighters. Emotional and mental health benefits of practicing yoga for firefighters and other first responders. The importance of developing interoceptive (internal) awareness for firefighters to monitor and sustain overall health and wellbeing. For more info on our training programs visit mindfulpublicsafety.org    You can have LIFETIME ACCESS to the Global First Responder Resilience Summit with Audio Downloads & Transcripts, featuring world-class experts in Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Fitness, and Resilience. Click Here To Learn More!
Mar 14 2022
46 mins
Lt. Annette Zapp: Managing Stress and Trauma
Lt. Annette Zapp: Managing Stress and Trauma
Lt. Annette Zapp on Cultivating Physical Fitness and Resilience speaking with John MacAdams Active service 17-year fire service veteran and health and wellness expert, Lt. Annette Zapp, tells her own story of recovery from occupational stress injuries and her work in supporting firefighters in managing stress and trauma exposure while optimizing their health, wellness and relationships. Her own experience of healing from accumulated fire service related traumatic stress. The significant health risks and symptoms by firefighters due to ongoing exposure to high stress and both primary and secondary trauma. Body-mind, nutrition, sleep and wellness strategies for firefighters and other first responders to mitigate occupational injury risks and maintain health and wellbeing. For more info on our training programs visit mindfulpublicsafety.org    You can have LIFETIME ACCESS to the Global First Responder Resilience Summit with Audio Downloads & Transcripts, featuring world-class experts in Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Fitness, and Resilience. Click Here To Learn More!
Feb 28 2022
48 mins
Troy Torrence: Cultivating Fitness
Troy Torrence: Cultivating Fitness
Troy Torrence on Cultivating Physical Fitness and Resilience speaking with John MacAdams Health Management Specialist and Fitness Expert Troy Torrence, MS, CSCS*D talks about his work in supporting the health and wellness of both sworn and civilian Indiana State Police personnel and the strength and conditioning training he does with recruits at the Indiana State Police Academy. Foundational movement exercises used with state police recruits.. skipping, bounding and jumping.. and their relationship to the eye-hand coordination and physical abilities and skills needed by state troopers for tactical performance. Physiology, cardiovascular and breathwork training for new state trooper recruits. The importance of basic mindfulness training in preparing recruits for effective self-regulation and optimal mind-body performance. For more info on our training programs visit mindfulpublicsafety.org  You can have LIFETIME ACCESS to the Global First Responder Resilience Summit with Audio Downloads & Transcripts, featuring world-class experts in Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Fitness, and Resilience. Click Here To Learn More!
Feb 21 2022
55 mins
Constable Amy Boudreau: Cultivating Resilience
Constable Amy Boudreau: Cultivating Resilience
Constable Amy Boudreau on Cultivating Physical Fitness and Resilience speaking with Katie Carlson. Expert Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher, York Police Constable Amy Boudreau shares her own journey and talks about the many challenges faced by first responders and her work in supporting first responders with mind-body strategies and tools for better managing high stress and mitigating the health risks associated with chronic stress and trauma exposure. Her personal journey of chronic stress and transformation through yoga and mindfulness. Bottom-up vs. top-down approaches to managing stress, healing trauma and sustaining health & wellbeing. How the Gravity Yoga approach can help first responders deal with the many physical challenges of their work prevent and/or heal potential stress and damage to their bodies over the course of their career. For more info on our training programs visit mindfulpublicsafety.org  You can have LIFETIME ACCESS to the Global First Responder Resilience Summit with Audio Downloads & Transcripts, featuring world-class experts in Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Fitness, and Resilience. Click Here To Learn More!
Feb 10 2022
51 mins