Day one begins at 8:30 AM.  This is a large group day and most generally our longest day.  It can be emotional, stressful, but lays the foundation for day two and three.  All participants, including attending spouses, have the opportunity to speak about what brings them to our seminar, their critical incidents, and the impact on them, their family, and extended family.  In a very short period of time, you will find out you are not alone in how you feel or how and why things have changed for you.  By the end of day one, you will see, feel, and hear a positive change is happening.

Day two is a busy day, small groups, large groups, one-on-one with of our clinical professionals, and EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing sessions.  Throughout the day, you will be scheduled to join our clinical team for the one-on-one and EMDR sessions.

Small group sessions:  Our Clinical Directors break our participants into groups with similar critical incidents; for example, OIS, death of children, physical assault, tragic vehicle accident.

Small groups are led by our peer mentors.  These groups spend time together discussing your critical incident, impacts, and recovery resources.  

Large group sessions:

During our day two sessions, our team begins providing you many tools that will not only help you today; however, the information will be very beneficial for you as you move through your career.  Our large group sessions focus on emotional survival, communication, healthy relationships in emergency responder families, triggers, managing triggers, parenting as an emergency responder, how to solve relationship problems, suicide, and chemical dependency. 

A day of pulling it all together; we continue our small and large groups, one-on-ones, and EMDR sessions.  Our large group session will address how to stay focused in the face of negativity, how to overcome adversity and the next steps to be taken.  Now we begin to learn from you- we will have you complete the Impact of Events Scale as well as post-assessment and post-growth plans.  We will ask you what has changed in you, what has shifted, and for a testimonial regarding how the seminar impacted you.  We will conclude with What’s next!