Law enforcement personnel are at high risk for stress related diseases and conditions. Mindfulness, meditation, and yoga practices increase the capacity to manage stress and build resilience. This webinar will share useful tools for law enforcement executives, supervisors, and agencies to improve officer safety and wellness.
Participants will:
• Understand the components of trauma, cumulative trauma, and post-traumatic stress and how they can be detrimental to your department.
• Learn how the use of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and the integration of psychotherapy can help law enforcement officers face everyday stress as well as traumatic events.
• Learn how to build resilience by mastering simple techniques to minimize an officer’s risk of accumulating trauma.
Presented by Detective Jennifer Elliott and Lieutenant Joe Carter of the Falls Church, Virginia, Police Department.
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