Mindful Public Safety

Deputy Chief Carrie Edwards-Clemons, on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Fleet Maull. 23-year fire service veteran, paramedic and current Flint, Michigan Deputy Fire Chief Carrie Edwards-Clemons, who has served her community in every division within the fire service, discusses the daily challenges firefighters face, the toll it can take on their wellbeing and her commitment to transforming fire service cultur...

Chief Cory Darling, on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Richard Goerling.  32-year police veteran and current Sunriver, Oregon Police Chief Cory Darling, who previously served as a patrol officer, detective, Sergeant, lieutenant and captain with the City of Bend, OR Police Department, including 5 years as a Narcotics Investigator, 16 years with a regional SWAT team, and more, discusses his current commitment ...

Director Colette S. Peters, on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Fleet Maull. Leading the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) since February 2012, Director Colette S. Peters has ultimate oversight of an agency with 4,700 employees, a biennial budget of $2 billion, and responsibility for managing 14,700 incarcerated adults in 14 prisons across the state. Director Peters, who is a national advocate for welln...

Dir. Vernon Herron on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Fleet Maull. 35-year law enforcement veteran with the Maryland State Police, Homeland Security and now the Baltimore Police Department, Director Vernon Herron discusses his work as Director of the Baltimore PD's Office of Officer Safety and Wellness and Office of Early Intervention, promoting both physical and mental health, through training, seminars and...

Dr. Susanne Knabe-Nicol, PhD, on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Fleet Maull. U.K. police veteran, investigative psychologist, advocate for evidence-based policing, and founder of Police Science, Dr. Susanne Knabe-Nicol, Ph.D., discusses her current work in making sound scientific research available in digestible video formats through an online global platform to active law enforcement leadership and frontli...

Jurie Rossouw on Creating Healthy Agency Cultures of Resilience, speaking with Fleet Maull.

Neuroscience researcher, resilience expert, author of Executive Resilience, and founder of Driven, an AI-powered resilience program used by hundreds of organizations worldwide, Jurie Rossouw talks about technological solutions for building more resilient public safety agencies and cultures and the High Adversity Resilience Training (HART) p...

Madar Apte, on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Fleet Maull. Cities4Peace founder-director, producer of the documentary From India With Love, meditation teacher, and former global manager of Shell Oil's prestigious GameChanger social innovation program, Mandar Apte, discusses the confluence of his work at Shell, generating and investing in ideas that create shared value – business value and social impact, and...

Michelle Ryder-Grebel on Creating Healthy Agency Cultures of Resilience, speaking with Fleet Maull. Nashville, TN Women's Residential Recovery Court Program Executive Director, trainer, and presenter Michelle Ryder-Grebel, with 30 years experience working as a Trauma Informed Care trained professional within the Criminal Justice System, 25 years specializing in Substance Abuse Disorder Treatment, and 20 years in leadership and man...

Brad Bogue on Creating Healthy Agency Cultures of Resilience, speaking with Fleet Maull. Veteran criminal justice system trainer, implementation science expert, author, and founder of Justice Systems Assessment & Training (J-SAT), Brad Bogue, talks about his work in implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs) like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and motivational interviewing (MI) in public safety, particularly within proba...

Ginny McKenna on Creating Healthy Agency Cultures of Resilience, speaking with Susanne Knabe-Nicol. 21-year Scottish police veteran and PTSD survivor, Ginny McKenna, shares her own experience with occupational stress injuries and her work as a certified police stress coach and critical incident support facilitator helping frontline police officers and police staff beat stress, move beyond trauma and transform their lives. The trau...

Lt. Jim Glennon on Creating Healthy Agency Cultures of Resilience, speaking with Richard Goerling. 30-year veteran police officer and homicide investigator, Lt. Jim Glennon (ret.), a nationally recognized instructor, speaker, author and owner of Calibre Press, a major law enforcement publishing, training and education organization, discusses current challenges, law enforcement training, and the future of public safety. Many more p...

Kelly Raths on Creating Healthy Agency Cultures of Resilience, speaking with Fleet Maull. Oregon Department of Corrections Administrator of Equity and Staff Wellness, Kelly Raths MDiv, discusses her work overseeing critical incident peer support teams, trauma-informed care initiatives, her agency’s progression towards diversity, equity, and inclusion and a culture that fosters well-being and resilience for its staff. The developme...

Reverend Michael Christie with Fleet Maull. Chaplain Michael G. Christie, DMin, is a Christian minister and a Chaplaincy supervisor with the Connecticut Department of Corrections. He is also a certified mindfulness meditation teacher who offers coaching and training to individuals, non-profits, and corporations on various topics: race relations, stress resilience, conflict resolution, and Non-Violent Communication (NVC). He is dev...

Founder and CEO of The Police Chaplain Program and law enforcement trainer at the US Department of Homeland Security, Gary Holden, talks about his experience working as a Chaplain after 9/11 at Ground Zero in NYC and as an instructor and director of various chaplain programs. He explains what a Chaplain does and how chaplaincy and resiliency are interconnected. Gary’s concept of ‘Ministry of Presence.’ Gary explains his belief that...

Chaplain Ken Schlenker, MDiv, is the Founder and Executive Director of RKM Crisis Team, dba CAREForce, a nonprofit 501(c)3 developing "Resilient Communities Through Collaborative Relationships." He serves as a Law Enforcement and District Attorney Chaplain for Montgomery County, TX. Ken authored the California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Basic Law Enforcement Chaplain Course. Chaplain Schlenker shares his considerab...

Chaplain Qalvy Grainzvolt is a native New Yorker, an ordained Shinnyo-en Buddhist priest, and a lead meditation guide at The Shinnyo Center for Meditation and Wellbeing. Qalvy is also a U.S. Army National Guard veteran, a uniformed chaplain for the Port Chester Police department in Westchester County, New York, and the first Buddhist chaplain for the New York City Transit system, including its MTA police department. He has provided...

Rabbi Niles Goldstein is the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Shalom of Napa Valley. Rabbi Goldstein, an experienced and dynamic Reform rabbi, and educator, is also the award-winning author or editor of ten books, including Gonzo Judaism and God at the Edge. Rabbi Goldstein is the National Jewish Chaplain for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, a position he has held since his ordination, and Chaplain for the Nap...

Allina Health Minneapolis EMS Chaplain, chaplaincy educator and author of Because We Care: A Handbook for Chaplaincy in Emergency Medical Services, Russell Myers, DMin shares his experiences supporting paramedics and other EMS professionals following critical incidents. He talks about the analogy one of his chaplaincy students used for chaplaincy work, that of a sherpa, the mountain guides of Nepal and Tibet, in this case, chaplain...

An ordained elder in the AME Zion Church and a Chaplain, Rona Watson talks about compassion and resiliency and how a positive mind full of hope is the only way to endure a tough life in general and life during COVID in particular. Rona stresses the importance of answering “Why” one is doing what he’s doing in order to lead a happy life. Concepts of ‘Compassion fatigue’ and ‘Intentional breathing’? Everyone should have a go-to and a...