Looking for the missing piece to the puzzle of helping your officers and athletes ‘get it’?
Have you heard from the great performers that elite performance is 80% mental and 20% physical and wondered how to best tap into that 80%?
Have you heard about imagery/mental rehearsal/visualization and wondered exactly what it is and how it works?
Then you are at the right place.
Imagery For Cops is a course built by an experienced law enforcement officer and trainer. Brian Willis has conducted group and individual imagery sessions with over 2000 people including law enforcement officers, trainers, athletes, coaches and individuals seeking positive change in their lives. Brian has also trained hundreds of law enforcement trainers and coaches from around North America to utilize Performance Enhancement Imagery as a method of effecting powerful change in officers’ and athletes’ performance.
Imagery is a simple, effective method of harnessing the power of the mind to enhance performance. Performance Enhancement Imagery accomplishes this by focusing and directing the imagination. Imagery For Cops is a unique and comprehensive program can be utilized to enhance all aspects of physical and mental performance in physical skills training, academics, test performance, firearms and performance on the street in tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving situations.
During this course you will gain an understanding of what imagery is, how it works and why it is such a powerful performance enhancement tool. The comprehensive and interactive format of this training will allow you to learn simple methods for incorporating imagery into your training programs and your life. Performance Enhancement Imagery can be utilized one on one or in a group to assist officers and athletes enhance their competence and confidence in any arena of performance.
In just three days you will gain an in-depth understanding of how the mind works, and how to effectively create and deliver imagery sessions to groups and individuals. This cutting-edge program teaches time-tested and proven techniques taught by a knowledgeable, professional and experienced instructor.
The Imagery For Cops course covers:
The Mind: This component forms the foundation of the program and will explain how the mind works to process, store and retrieve information. It provides an in-depth understanding of the roles of the conscious and subconscious mind. Often, training programs and coaching sessions are focused at the level of the conscious mind, however in high stress events, rapidly evolving events or spontaneous events it is the subconscious mind that determines our response. This program provides participants with the tools to assist them in creating the most desirable subconscious mental programs in themselves, their officers or their athletes.
Performance Enhancement Imagery: This component makes up the greatest part of the course. It begins by examining exactly what imagery is, and why it is so effective. The key elements to conducting successful Performance Enhancement Imagery sessions along with the wide variety of ways Performance Enhancement Imagery can be used in training groups and individuals are covered in depth. In addition to learning how to use Imagery For Cops participants will be provided scripts to guide them through imagery sessions. During the course participants will develop their own scripts and practice developing and delivering an imagery session in a safe and supportive learning environment.
Self-Talk: The most important conversations we will ever have are with ourselves, about ourselves, in the privacy of our own mind. It is important that people become aware of their self-talk as it can be either positive and productive, or negative and destructive. Self talk helps to establish and reinforce programs in the subconscious mind. Once people become aware of their self-talk they can change it to ensure it is most desirable.
The Power of Words: The emphasis throughout this course will be the use of positive based language to create expectations of success in yourself and others. Much of the language used in our everyday communication is negative based and it may be creating less desirable programming at the subconscious level.
Imagery and Debriefings: Debriefings following law enforcement scenario training or actual calls is a tremendous opportunity to learn from the experience and improve future performance. Imagery can play a vital role in creating effective and lasting learning through debriefings
Imagery and Video: Many law enforcement trainers use videos in their programs. When used effectively and combined with imagery these videos can program officers for future success. When used inappropriately they can program officers for failure.
Performance Anxiety: Test and performance anxiety create a number of issues for law enforcement officers and trainers. One of the greatest areas of anxiety is firearms qualification. Performance Enhancement Imagery has helped hundreds of law enforcement professionals around North America overcome this anxiety and qualify easily and consistently. Performance Enhancement Imagery can also be used to help individuals who are anxious about written exams, promotional interviews and public speaking.
Once you learn the basics of Performance Enhancement Imagery you are only limited by your imagination as to how you apply it in your training.
About the Facilitator:
Brian Willis is recognized throughout North America as a thought leader, catalyst for change and a man with many questions. He is the founder of the innovative training company Winning Mind Training, a company committed to help the men and women of law enforcement Embrace the Suck, focus on What’s Important Now and Dare to Be Great. Brian served as a full time police officer for 25 years and has over 27 years of law enforcement training experience. He is a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for his commitment and contributions to Officer Safety in Canada, the Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Law Officer Trainer of the Year award.
Brian has also served as a mental preparation coach for athletes from a variety of sports including two Olympic athletes.