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Blue Courage: The Heart and Mind of the Guardian

Blue Courage is a transformational two-day leadership development workshop designed for all levels of the organization. This revolutionary educational process is a holistic approach to developing our people. It will touch hearts, awaken minds and ignite spirits through dynamic presentations and learning processes. (Available for law enforcement, corrections/detention, non-sworn personnel, and for the military; All customized to incorporate the language and the culture of each profession.)

Blue Courage Academy (Train-the-Trainer)

The Blue Courage Academy is a five-day workshop that educates attendees to be able to deliver the two-day workshop to their organization. Attendees are given all necessary supporting materials to successfully teach Blue Courage and impact fellow law enforcement professionals. (Available for law enforcement, corrections/detention, and non-law enforcement organizations.)

Purple Resolve: The Heart and Mind of the Warrior

Adapted for the National Guard from the traditional Blue Courage education process, Purple Resolve is a leadership development process designed for all levels of the military. This revolutionary educational process is a holistic approach to developing our people. It will touch hearts, awaken minds and ignite spirits through dynamic presentations and learning processes. This course is also available in a 1-day version and a certification. 

Inclusive Leadership

Inclusive Leadership is a transformational, experiential learning based workshop that blends cultivating an inclusive environment with leadership development. This intensive three-day course is also offered in other formats to include: a 4-hour for Public Safety course, a 1-day basic course, a train-the-trainer for the 1-day course. Areas of focus for Inclusive Leadership include: Understanding and Embracing Inclusion, Building Trust, Developing High Performance Teams and Leadership Development. (Available for law enforcement, corrections/detention, and corporate organizations.)

Blue Courage Leadership Development Institute

A series of 4 to 6-hour workshops, the Blue Courage Leadership Development Institute offers essential Blue Courage topics taught one day a month over 6-12 months. Bite size learning is highly effective to ensure that learning is reinforced over time and is not taxing on the time committed to training. Topics include Pursuing Greatness, Nobility of Policing, Respect, Resilience, Inclusive Leadership, Practical Wisdom, Positive Psychology, understanding and changing Culture and Leaders as Coaches.

Resilience in Practice

Today’s police and military professionals are mired in a VUCA world defined by: volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. What’s worse is: this state has been a constant for the past few years with no end in sight. How do we prepare our professionals to respond optimally, to maintain a high state of readiness and to sustain the heart and mind required of our warrior/guardians? Learning the tools and practices of resilience and coherence empowers us to nourish our sources of human energy (physical, mental, spiritual and emotional) to diminish the impact of what is too often an “impoverished environment” predictive of burnout, cynicism and disengagement. This course will provide insight and perspective on how resilience is trained, implemented, and practiced, particularly in these challenging times. 

Blue Courage Resilience

Explores and educates participants on the important of resilience and stress management that the policing profession demands today. The four-hour course draws on the Institute of HeartMath’s research on resilience, energy and peak performance. The course will also examine positive psychology and mindfulness. Participants will learn the process of “Pattern Interruption” – the practice of quieting the mind by breaking the pattern of our negative thoughts and emotions – the chaos of the day. All designed to create increased mindfulness, awareness, focus and performance.

Activating the Heart of Teams

HeartMath Institute's course includes skills that lead to: 

• Increased team harmony 

• Fewer mistakes and errors 

• Faster, more accurate and creative decision-making 

• Shorter meeting times 

• Increased positive energy and sense of well-being 

• Enhanced collective intuition for increasing creativity and finding solutions to problems 

• Increased sense of well-being and appreciation of collective action 

• Collaborating from a more inclusive perspective 

• Establishing new baselines for sustained change 

Heart-Focused Leadership

Heart-Focused Leadership is based on the notion that leadership is an art and craft born in the heart rather than an intellectual exercise. Heart-focused leaders deeply embrace the concept of both taking care of those in their charge, coupled with the responsibility to grow and develop the capacity of their people. Leaders who bring love and passion to their craft are far better suited to build lasting relationships, establish deep trust, unleash loyalty and engagement, and advance the organization. Today’s leadership challenge rests not in more knowledge and technology, but in our capacity to lead with courage, grace, love and humanness. This session will illuminate the path to leadership greatness and reveal the essential development process; and, both challenge and inspire attendees to embark on the journey.

Blue Courage For Families

 The public service culture is unique and often brings with it many challenges as well as rewards that affect couples and families. Regardless of the length of service or challenges that come with various assignments — midnight shifts, critical incidents, loss of coworkers, missed family outings, tragedies, politics, loss of close relationships — our highly experienced members and their families have selflessly and stoically served their organization, community, and profession with nobility, honor, and courage. The Blue Courage® for Families course will offer a unique look inside the public service culture as it relates to couples and the family dynamic, highlighting the necessary heartset and mindset in a holistic approach that promotes and nourishes the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being needed for families to flourish in a life of purpose and service to a cause greater than self. 

Courageous Leadership Skills Training

More than ever, we now need courageous policing. We can do as our most effective leaders did: purposefully use courage to lead effectively; build deep leadership benches and self-sustaining cultures that solve gut-wrenchers at street level. 

Courage can be taught. Gus Lee's Courageous Leadership Skills Training’s practice-based training breaks down the power of courage into practical, bite-sized modules drawn from the hard, life-changing lessons of experience. It reanimates the admirable reasons that we became police officers. It gives us hope and renewed strength for the journey ahead. 

Keynote Presentations

Inspiring and engaging keynote presentations customized to fit each organization’s needs on a wide range of topics, such as diversity/inclusion, leadership, resilience, the nobility of policing, and practical wisdom to name a few.

Live Online Learning

More important than ever, even in times of challenge and chaos, providing ourselves and those we lead with the tools and knowledge to enrich our lives, build our resilience, strengthen our health and well-being, increase our mindfulness, amplify our positivity and happiness, communicate and build stronger relationships ultimately impact our environment, productivity, and accountability — shifting the organizational culture. As Tom Peters once said, “If you want to maximize productivity, the way to do that is not to focus on productivity, but to focus on making people feel cared for.”