SUNDAY 3/23/14
MONDAY 3/24/14
0600-0700
Optional Yoga for Police
1230-1330
Lunch
1330-1350 Guest
Speaker
Description: This speaker is a police officer in Afghanistan and
a prior IAWP International Scholarship winner. She was one of the first women
to graduate from the Afghan
National Police
Academy in 2002. She will
speak briefly about the challenges of policing in Afghanistan , especially as a woman,
where a female police officer can be targeted not only by criminals but by
colleagues and family as well.
1350-1445
Class Title:
Leadership Strategies; The Power of Choice and Positioning
Yourself for Success
Instructor; Lt Col (retired) Cindy Shain
Description; Cindy Shain retired as the Deputy
Chief of the Louisville Police Department after 24 years in law enforcement.
She currently serves as the Associate Director of the Southern Police Institute
where she oversees professional development programs. The purpose of this
interactive workshop is to provoke thought and provide strategies for people in
law enforcement to insure success by assessing and setting professional goals
and objectives; surveying personal strengths and weaknesses; developing and
implementing a professional development plan and improving their
“marketability” for careers after retirement.
1445-1500
Break
Instructor: Brenda Trobaugh
Description: Commander Trobaugh
has worked in Law Enforcement for 22 years. She currently serves with the Cal
Poly Police Department and is in charge of all police operations. This training
segment will explore the topics of gang rape, human trafficking, how they are
tied together and how the legal community has, and should respond
1600-1700
Class Title:
Good Cop; Bad Daughter
Instructor Karen Lynch
Description: Karen Lynch worked
for the San Francisco Police Department from 1981 until 2010, retiring with the
rank of Homicide Inspector after being diagnosed with breast cancer. This hour-long class will explore aspects of
career survival that were never taught in law enforcement academies.
Participants will learn skills for improved communication with colleagues, as
well as how to identify and enroll co-workers as mentors. We will discuss the
reality of intuition, and the danger of dismissing our sixth sense. And
finally, we will use some tools of improvisational acting to practice
deflecting anger and the negative emotions of those we encounter, policing with
compassion, while keeping ourselves healthy. Participants will leave with
viable tools for enhancing their career satisfaction
Tuesday 3/25/14
0600 – 0700 Optional yoga session
0800 – 0830 Class
Title: Yoga for Police Officers
Instructor: Staff
Sergeant Kyla Hunter
Description: Staff Sgt Hunter
works for the Peel Regional Police in Ontario ,
Canada . She is
also a certified Yoga instructor. For
this training conference Staff Sgt Hunter will conduct two optional yoga
sessions prior to the scheduled training regimen. These sessions are
specifically geared towards police officers and the physical challenges they
face due to the work environment and uniform requirements. She will also be
doing a short presentation to explain the benefits of yoga and the importance
of physical fitness.
Instructor: Sgt Lisa Mandziak and
Constable Belinda Duncan
Description: Sgt Mandziak and
Constable Duncan are both members of the Winnipeg Police Service in Manitoba
Canada. Early in Constable Duncan’s
career, she and Sgt Mandziak responded and overcame an armed assailant. This
training segment will cover the importance of officer safety training and the
physical skills and mindset one needs to survive a critical incident, not only
at the time but also the aftermath.
1000 – 1050 Class
Title: IGO Leadership; The fundamentals of influencing Individuals,
Groups and
Organizations
Instructor: Donna Cayson
Description: Donna Cayson began
her law enforcement career in 1997 at the age of 44 after a twenty plus year
career as an entrepreneur and private business owner. Donna worked for both the
Pasadena and
Sierra Madre Police Departments, retiring in 2010. This training is a fast paced, interactive,
knowledge packed education experience designed as a jumpstart for anyone who
desires to develop and/or improve their leadership potential regardless of
their current position in their organization. Participants will explore several
behavioral science theories that help us to better understand and explore our
own leadership potential.
1050-1100 Break
1100-1230 Class
Title: Intuition Unleashed
Instructor: Ally Jacobs
Description: Ally Jacobs was a police officer for the
University of California-Berkeley for 13 years before retiring in 2013. She
spent most of those 13 years working in patrol and undercover narcotics
investigations. In August of 2009, Ally Jacobs and another UC Berkeley
employee, Lisa Campbell, were instrumental in instigating the investigation
that led to the location and freeing of Jaycee Dugard, who had been kidnapped
and held captive for 18 years. This training segment will outline that case,
offer and offender profile of convicted kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido,
and acknowledge the strong role that intuition had and continues to have in
effective law enforcement.
1230-1330
Lunch
1330-1520
Class Title:
Workplace Violence/Conflict Resolution
Instructor: Sherry Benson-Podolchuk
Description: Sherry Benson-Podolchuk served for 20 years
as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and has authored a book, Women
Not Wanted, based on her experience with a hostile work environment and gender
targeted workplace harassment/bullying.
This training segment will focus on recognizing, overcoming and moving
forward from the issues she discusses in her book. The goal of this training is to be able to
create and foster a positive work environment for all employees. By using real
life experiences and sharing her own survival techniques, Sherry hopes to leave
her audience with awareness of what harassment looks like and the impact on the
victim; ideas on how to change attitudes and learn the value of our own voices
and to have the courage to take action.
1530-1645 Class Title: The Ways of the Warrior Woman
Instructor: Staff Sergeant Cori Slaughter
Description: Staff Sgt. Slaughter has over thirty years of
combined experience in law enforcement, the Canadian military and fitness
instruction. She has been with the Ottawa Police Service for twenty-three years
and is currently serving as the Crime Prevention Staff Sergeant. This
workshop delivers a dynamic blend of powerful stories and provocative wit to
demystify the art of self protection for both officers and civilians. Delivered in a train-the-trainer format, this
course challenges myths and misconceptions about victim selection, sexual
assault, date rape drugs and personal safety.
Armed with a name that belies her trademark approach, S/Sgt Slaughter
creates a toolbox of anti-violence strategies for any environment, from
de-escalation techniques to employing weapons of opportunity. In an entertaining and energetic style,
participants are provided material on workplace violence and ways to assist
women in the community in transforming fear of the criminal realm to a domain
where tactical options and savvy wisdom prevail.
1645-1700 Wrap up/
Official Training agenda concludes.
1700-??? Optional extended hands on workshop with Cori
Slaughter