Chief Ryan Johansen on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Richard Goerling. Current Chief of Police for the City of San Bruno in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chief Ryan Johansen, a long-standing mindfulness and meditation practitioner and coach who began his law enforcement career with the San Diego Police Department, discusses his efforts to integrate mindfulness and wellness practices into his department’s culture and social identity and other needs and strategies for positive change in public safety culture and practice. How the intervention of a wise field training officer following an early career experience with a shooting set him on a course of healthy coping mechanisms and resilient policing. The value of immersive mindfulness training as part of his agency's efforts to develop a cultural identity of mindful and resilient policing and officer wellness. Performance-based resilience training and how mindfulness and other forms of mind-body and emotional intelligence training and practices are foundational to optimal performance in law enforcement. CHEIF RYAN JOHANSEN Ryan currently serves as the Chief of Police for the City of San Bruno in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ryan is a long-standing mindfulness and meditation practitioner and coach, and he has worked hard to bring the value of these practices to the police department’s wellness efforts. While Ryan and his staff have worked toward this objective from multiple directions, the primary focus has been on integration into the department’s culture and social identity. Ryan possesses a Bachelor of Applied Sciences Degree in Law Enforcement Management, and he is currently enrolled in the Masters of Homeland Defense and Security Program at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. For more info on our training programs, visit mindfulpublicsafety.org

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Deputy Chief Carrie Edwards-Clemons, on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Fleet Maull. 23-year fire service veteran, paramedic and current Flint, Michigan Deputy Fire Chief Carrie Edwards-Clemons, who has served her community in every division within the fire service, discusses the daily challenges firefighters face, the toll it can take on their wellbeing and her commitment to transforming fire service culture in support of wellness, resilience and diversity as well as the responsibility of leaders to model the changes they wish to encourage in their agencies and among their personnel. The role prayer, gratitude, and thankfulness along with maintaining a strong after-work life with family, friends and community service, have played in helping her stay healthy and resilient throughout her career and the challenges and changes she has experienced as a female black firefighter in a profession made up almost entirely of white men when she began, and which remains one the least diverse public safety professions in 2021. Her role as a leader in listening to and supporting the firefighters and other staff in our agency, and how she proactively refers them to the professional support they need to work through challenging emotional and mental health challenges and occupational stress injuries. The importance of leaders proactively identifying and making available the resources their staff, who have to transition between traumatic experiences and home life on a daily basis, need for resiliency and mental health support -- their coffee and conversation initiative giving firefighters the opportunity to process difficult and potentially traumatizing job experiences. DEPUTY CHIEF CARRIE EDWARDS-CLEMONS Deputy Fire Chief Carrie Edwards-Clemons is inspired daily by the strength and resilience of the Flint community and firefighters to stay strong and determined even in the face of many challenging circumstances. Hired into the Fire Department in 1999 as a Trainee, Carrie has served the community in every division within the fire service. She earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A./Public Administration from Columbia Southern University. She is the grant writer for the department and has secured grants in excess of 23 million throughout her career. She is the first female to achieve the rank of Deputy Chief in the 165-year history of the Flint Fire Dept. and is the first female president of the International Association of Black Professional Fire Fighters. Deputy Chief Edwards-Clemons works hard to recognize the needs of her team members to anticipate and secure resources to support them to be successful - equipment, emotional and physical support for their health and wellness, and keeping them connected to the mission and equipped with the tools needed to achieve the mission.

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Chief Cory Darling, on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Richard Goerling. 32-year police veteran and current Sunriver, Oregon Police Chief Cory Darling, who previously served as a patrol officer, detective, Sergeant, lieutenant and captain with the City of Bend, OR Police Department, including 5 years as a Narcotics Investigator, 16 years with a regional SWAT team, and more, discusses his current commitment to the safety, resilience and wellbeing of all of his officers and other personnel as well as current challenges in policing and necessary priorities for the future of public safety. How early career experiences inspired him to move beyond and aspire to transform the dehumanizing and isolating, us versus them attitudes common in law enforcement culture. The importance of law enforcement and public safety leaders, leading from the front, directly participating in and modeling the wellness or resilience training programs they bring into their agencies. Discovering how yoga and mindfulness reduced occupational injuries and his own path of participating in and leading these wellness and resilience training programs.

CHIEF CORY DARLING Cory Darling is currently the chief of police for the Sunriver Police Department. He has over 32 years of law enforcement service. He has held the positions of Officer, Detective, Sergeant, Lieutenant, and Captain with the City of Bend Police Department. Cory has also served in numerous special assignments, including 5 years as a Narcotics Investigator, 16 years with a regional SWAT team, Motor Officer, Street Crimes Sergeant, Firearms Instructor, Integrated Use of Force Instructor, and Field Training Officer. Cory holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy class 237. Cory is a current board of director for the Oregon Association Chiefs of Police, Vice President for the Oregon Fallen Badge Foundation, and a board of director for Kids Center, a regional Children’s Advocacy Center.

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