TUF Mind: Wellness and Resiliency Training for Public Safety Professionals
Dr. Julie Rumrill
9:15 AM - 12:00 PMThu
Speakers
Dr. Julie Rumrill
Senior Associate
Team Training Associates
Public safety professionals experience the effects of acute and/or chronic stress as a routine part of their job. This stress is often undiagnosed and mismanaged, which can lead to physical health issues, relationship problems, drug/alcohol abuse, lost time at work, and a general decline in the quality of life. The TUF Mind (Thinking Under Fire) wellness and resilience training helps public safety professionals recognize the numerous impacts of stress and teaches skills they can use on the job and at home to improve and protect their mental health. The TUF mind program is a mind-body medicine program developed to counteract the mental, emotional, cognitive, and physical impacts of chronic stress. The same practices incorporated into the TUF mind program are also found in mental health training for the US military pre-deployment and special operations teams, the VA, numerous public safety agencies (nationwide), healthcare professionals, and high-level athletes. This program provides participants with self-care tools to pro-actively manage daily stressors and address the accumulated impacts of chronic stress on their personal and professional lives. Learning Objectives The workshop is designed to increase participants’ knowledge and understanding of: • Holistic wellness as it pertains to public safety professions. • The physiology of stress and impacts on health. • Strategies and practices to build attention, awareness, resilience and self-regulation.