MONDAY 3/24/14
0600-0700 Optional Yoga intro
Lunch 1230- 1330
1330-1350 Speaker: Anonymous for Security
Description: 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.
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.
1500-1600 Class Title: Gang Rape and Human Trafficking Law Enforcement Response
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. 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 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.
0830-1000 Class Title: Surviving a Critical Incident
Instructor: Sgt Lisa Mandziak and Constable Belinda Duncan
Description: Sgt Mandziak and Constable Duncan are both members of the Winnipeg Police Serivce in Manitoba Canada. Early in Constable Duncan’s career, she and Sgt Mandziak responded and overcame and 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 by 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.
Lunch
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 - this speaker has not been confirmed yet.
1645-1700 We will wrap it up and evaluations
