North Dakota Emergency Medical Services Association
Mental Fitness for First Responders
A One-Day Bootcamp
Offered in 2 different Locations
Quality Inn, Jamestown- July 19, 2023 9:00am-5:00pm- Register Here
The Public Safety Building, Dickinson- July 20, 2023 9:00am-5:00pm- Register Here
Mental fitness is a positive, proactive, and disciplined way of meeting the emotional and psychological challenges of First Responder roles AND enjoying more of the mental rewards we want from work.
These are challenging times for first responders. Staffing shortages, social ills, funding issues, increasing demands, and ugly politics are making this role more difficult. Mental fitness is about preparing ourselves to meet these challenging times. Mental fitness develops the awareness, commitment, maturity, discipline, grit, and optimism needed to meet challenges and still have a positive and satisfying experience. This one-day boot camp introduces mental fitness and plunges participants into the training, conditioning, skills, and tools needed to build mental fitness.
What we will do:
Over eight hours, we will introduce the concept of mental fitness and engage in exercises and skills that will deepen your understanding of mental fitness and give you the tools to go home and start a mental fitness routine. The session will be highly active and participatory!
Mental fitness begins with paying attention to attention. Focus becomes our reality. When the attention muscle is developed, exercised, and strong we:
Over the day, we will demonstrate that mental fitness is much easier to work on and maintain when practiced with others.
Who this is for and not for:
The program is for first responders who:
This boot camp IS NOT for first responders who: