Ep 42: Chief Ryan Johansen on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety

Chief Ryan Johansen on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Richard Goerling.  Current Chief of Police for the City of San Bruno in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chief Ryan Johansen, a long-standing mindfulness and meditation practitioner and coach who began his law enforcement career with the San Diego Police Department, discusses his efforts to integrate mindfulness and wellness practices into his department’s culture and social identity and other needs and strategies for positive change in public safety culture and practice. How the intervention of a wise field training officer following an early career experience with a shooting set him on a course of healthy coping mechanisms and resilient policing. The value of immersive mindfulness training as part of his agency's efforts to develop a cultural identity of mindful and resilient policing and officer wellness. Performance-based resilience training and how mindfulness and other forms of mind-body and emotional intelligence training and practices are foundational to optimal performance in law enforcement. CHEIF RYAN JOHANSEN Ryan currently serves as the Chief of Police for the City of San Bruno in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ryan is a long-standing mindfulness and meditation practitioner and coach, and he has worked hard to bring the value of these practices to the police department’s wellness efforts. While Ryan and his staff have worked toward this objective from multiple directions, the primary focus has been on integration into the department’s culture and social identity. Ryan possesses a Bachelor of Applied Sciences Degree in Law Enforcement Management, and he is currently enrolled in the Masters of Homeland Defense and Security Program at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. For more info on our training programs, visit mindfulpublicsafety.org

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