Ep.26 Qalvy Grainzvolt on Work-Life Balance

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 mindfulness training to NYPD officers. Rev. Grainzvolt shares his experience as a Buddhist priest and meditation doing law enforcement chaplaincy and teaching mindfulness to police officers—the importance of work-life balance for first responder spiritual fitness and resilience. The power of conscious breathing and mindfulness in managing transitions from home to work and work to home and connecting with nature for spiritual resilience. A brief guided mindfulness meditation practice uses images from the natural world. REV. QALVY GRAINZVOLT, MS, MHC-LP Reverend Qalvy Grainzvolt is a native New Yorker, an ordained Shinnyo-en Buddhist priest, and leads 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. In 2018, Qalvy helped bring mindfulness to the New York City Police Department as part of its crisis intervention team (CIT) training. Qalvy holds a Master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling and is a meditation instructor at New York University. For more info on our training programs, visit mindfulpublicsafety.org