Mental Resilience Training

Mental Psychological Resilience & Stress Injury Protection

How to remain calm, present, effective

under stress

Expand Zone of Optimal Performance

Stress Release, Stress-Injury Healing, Protection and Prevention

Research-based knowledge, practical skills

and a tool-kit of evidence based exercises

Training Objective

Skills Taught

Training Description

Critical Incedent

Police Escalation Challenge

Decisive action under stress

Critical Incedent

1/5

To:

Enhance mental, psychological and physical resilience, leading to improved health, wellness, moral and performance outcomes
Enhance capacity to remain calm, present & responsive under pressure
Strengthen capacity for self-talk regulation, emotion regulation, goal setting, task visualization, mental agility and attention control
Empower stress management and self-regulation skills for ‘on the spot’ application, when encountering stressors on duty, or during trauma reactivation
Increase personal zone of optimal performance
Prevent ‘Burn-Out’ and long term stress injury such as PTSD
Support recovery from long term stress and trauma effects
Provide practical understanding of the neuroscience of resilience, stress and stress management, and the scientific basis for mindfulness
Remove the stigma from stress impact and injury

Effective skills and exercises to expand zone of optimal performance and decision making under stress
Practical grounding, calming, cooling skills for high-stress situations
Attention, focusing and mindfulness skills
Effective skills and practical exercises to turn stress into resilience
Effective skills to suspend self-talk and redirect attention to present moment and task at hand
Pre-verbal emotion management and regulation skills
Physiological self-regulation skills to quickly settle and de-conflict the autonomic nervous system during stress activation
Breath regulation, body-scanning and other stress management skills and practices
Cognitive reframing skills and positive attitudinal skills
Effective skills to go beyond 'automatic-pilot' or habitual re-action, to situational awareness and intentional response
Skills to help mitigate family impact of on-the-job stress and trauma, developing healthy resilient family communication and conflict management

MBWARE Training modules are experiential and highly participatory. MBWARE Training includes evidence based practical exercises as well as didactic components.

We will discuss the scientific and psychological aspect of resilience, performance under stress and stress management, as well as of each skill, and explore the professional experiential implications and realities.

We will discuss the body-mind connection and how training can increase resilience and its impact on our performance under stress.

We will learn and practice a series of exercises and techniques that can be applied on duty on the spot, as well as integrated into daily exercise regimes, that strengthen psychological resilience, toughness and readiness.

We will practice the specific skill in pairs or groups and conduct mock-scenario exercises together.

We will discuss the challenges experienced with each exercise, discuss antidotes and skillful means to work with obstacles and continue to practice the learned techniques.

We will learn how we practice reflection-in-action and self-evaluating skills for continued learning and improvement of skills.

Participants will be trained in a series of short mindfulness-based exercises, pre-verbal emotional and body awareness, presencing and situational awareness exercises.

Participants will receive an audio CD, ( ... and we are working on developing and AP), containing guided instructions for each of these personal exercise.

The didactic components consist of understanding the findings from relevant neuroscience research studies and how these apply to performance under stress, stress protection and resilience building.

Research, principles and exercises are discussed from the point of view of participants' personal and professional experience and the challenges they encounter on duty.

Training Delivery

We collaborate with you to assure that this MBWARE Training module optimally complements your overall training strategy and needs. Details and delivery of MBWARE Training Programs will be targeted specific to your operational realities, and will honor cultural and logistical considerations.

This module can be delivered in 3 two-hour sessions, or can be delivered as 1 six-hour workshop intensive.

We offer the addition of optional follow-up sessions, online check ins, or brief individual coaching sessions, in order to guide and support optimal integration and application of exercises learned.

We offer to include a formal result evaluation, which can be developed in collaboration with your designated staff.