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Resilience for Wildland Firefighters, Public Safety, & Public Health Professionals


  • Drala Mountain Center 151 Shambhala Way Red Feather Lakes, CO, 80545 United States (map)

This event is open to wildland firefighters, other first responders and public health professionals.

Train skills to thrive in all domains

Training grounded in science and practice

Drala Mountain Center in Colorado is hosting a special 3-day residential event focused on resilience, trauma competency, and mindfulness - all for just $300! This immersive, grant-supported experience includes lodging, meals, and expert instruction from Richard and Jeff. Immerse yourself in the stunning Colorado mountains while learning cutting-edge techniques that will transform your health, humanity, and human performance.

Learn and practice resilience and growth mindset, breath work, meditation, mindbody wellness and mindfulness skills that sustain and optimize your health, humanity and performance.

Mindfulness is a category of mind training that explores the three different modes of attention and trains them to enhance new forms of concentration, self-awareness, and situational awareness to enhance all cognitive, emotion regulation, tactical, and interpersonal skills. This training is an examination into the science and experience of mindfulness as it relates to resilience, warrior-humanitarian ethos, and human performance optimization. These skills provide the foundation to thrive through adversity and trauma and the wisdom to understand strategies for recovery, pliability and striving toward sustained post-traumatic growth.

Experiential Learning

This is an intensive introduction to the science of the mind and cognitive conditioning through mindfulness meditation and mindful movement. Opportunities for experiential practice through guided and individual meditations and mindful movement are supported with lectures/discussions throughout each training day.

This event is open to wildland firefighters and those professionals who support wildland fire suppression. This includes fire service, emergency management, public safety telecommunications, law enforcement and public health professionals. Please contact us if you have any questions about eligibility to attend.

Facilitators Richard Goerling, Jeff Proulx, and Noel Smith

This training is a collaboration between Mindful Badge & the Drala Mountain Center

Tuition*: $300

*Tuition covers instruction, supplies, meals & lodging

Through generous grants from the Lenz, BESS and Schocken Foundations, the lodging and meal costs are covered.