Retreats & Multi-day Workshops for First Responders
Shift Wellness programs are carefully crafted by our team of clinicians and subject matter experts for department leaders, teams, individuals, and spouses. Through evidence-based modalities, we teach practical skills and tools to improve mental performance and build resilience to avoid burnout.
The following retreats and multi-day workshops are typically hosted in small groups to foster a trusted community. When people connect with one another, they realize they are not alone and are able to experience tribal healing.
Just as physical fitness and nutrition support our bodies, retreats offer the brain the fuel and exercise it needs to stay healthy. Deciding to try a new path takes courage, but our proven results show that it’s worth it.
Peer Support Team Retreat
A career as a peer supporter confronts individuals with nonstop crisis response and traumatic events. The chronic cumulative stress can make it challenging to find time to balance and decompress.
Peer Support Team Retreats with Shift Wellness are an opportunity to reconnect and reignite a commitment to shared goals. Participants will develop skills to reduce stress, improve mental performance through mitigation techniques, and create healthy plans for themselves, their families, and their teams. Whether a peer support team is newly formed, struggling, or thriving, this retreat will provide in-depth support for every individual.
3 days, 2 nights, held at our Eagle Creek Retreat Center in Idyllwild, California
- Resilience workshop
- Teamwork: mission, values, goals
- Incident debriefs
- Stress reduction and healing practices
- Burnout and compassion fatigue
- Post traumatic growth practices
- One-on-one counseling
This retreat is typically scheduled for members of a Peer Support Team from the same department to attend together. Please reach out to schedule or for more information.
Trauma & Resilience Retreat
Critical incidents, officer involved shootings, and other traumatic situations are a part of daily life for first responders. Yet, no matter how many years someone is on the job, these events have the potential to interfere with an individual’s ability to function normally.
Designed by experts in treating traumatic stress injuries, this retreat provides insight, healing, education, and support for those with personal difficulties due to occupational trauma. Participants will leave with improved overall mental performance and a solid plan of how to implement healthy practices.
- 4 days, 3 nights
- Held at our Eagle Creek Retreat Center in Idyllwild, California
- Post-traumatic stress injuries & mental health
- Tools to process trauma exposure & occupational stress
- Improve overall mental performance and wellbeing
- Focus on unresolved grief, anger, and frustrations
- Create a value based plan for self improvement
- Resilience workshop
- Burnout and compassion fatigue
- One-on-one counseling
- Stress reduction and healing practices
Fire Command Staff “Multi-Day Workshops”
With other Command Staff, you will strengthen skills so that others will continue to see you as a respected, competent, and compassionate leader. You will learn how to improve work-life balance while creating a healthier workspace.
Together, you can take the time to focus o personal and organizational resilience, while balancing assertiveness that fosters trust at all levels of your organizations.
Police Command Staff Retreats
During a typical career, Police Command Staff experience immeasurable stress and countless traumatic events, leaving a lasting impact on health and wellbeing. Some may find that they push down feelings even as they are struggling to process high levels of stress, fear, guilt and grief. The end result can often be damaging: overspending, substance use, relationship problems, and more.
Dedicated Police Command Staff workshops provide a space to learn stress relief tips, build resilience, and share experiences with people who get it.
"Everything about the experience is intended to set you apart and away from your regular life. ... A lot happens in a short amount of time."
Dr. Stephen Odom
Wellness & Team Building
First responders, professional staff, and leaders may fail to process difficult events for years, carrying on as usual through high levels of stress, fear, guilt, and grief. In time, this creates emotional, physical, and psychological symptoms that can negatively impact overall health, sleep, concentration, emotional regulation, and more. This retreat is designed to help participants learn necessary skills for stress reduction and mental health mitigation techniques to improve overall mental performance.
- 3 days, 2 nights
- Held at our Eagle Creek Retreat Center in Idyllwild, California
- Post traumatic stress injuries & mental health
- Tools to process trauma exposure & occupational stress
- Learn techniques to improve overall mental performance and wellbeing
- Focus on unresolved grief, anger, and frustrations
- Create a value based plan for self improvement
- Responder resilience workshop
- Burnout and compassion fatigue
- Post traumatic growth practices
- One-to-one counseling
- Stress reduction and healing practices
- Accelerated Resolution Therapy/EMDR
Chief Resilience Workshops (Police & Sheriff)
Leaders face a unique pressure that only their peers can understand. Shift Wellness workshops dedicated to Police Chiefs and Sheriffs allow these men and women to learn leadership skills, resilience tips, and stress reduction techniques alongside others who walk the same path. This multi-day workshop is exclusively for the Police Chief or Sheriff.
Chief Resilience Workshops (Fire)
It can be lonely at the top, and sometimes the best support system is with fellow Chiefs who are walking the same path. Together, you can take time to focus on personal and organizational resilience, while balancing assertiveness that fosters trust at all levels of your organization.
This workshop is exclusively for the Fire Chief. Other command staff should attend our Command Staff Resilience Retreat.
Objectives:
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Build resilience
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Address burnout and compassion fatigue
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Learn retire well strategies
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Build connection and understanding
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Develop post traumatic growth practices
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Learn tips for balancing responder home and family life
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Experience mental performance training
Join a Retreat
The Shift Wellness vision is to create a movement to change how organizations invest in their workforce and create more opportunities for wellness and optimized performance. Reach out to join a retreat or create a custom experience with our team of experts.
