Coaching LA Wildfires: Closing the Resiliency Training Gap
Emotional Recovery for Crisis Response®
4 Day Live Events in CA, NJ, CO, AZ, and HI.
"Under pressure, you don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training." Navy SEAL
In a world that demands resilience and adaptability, our programs offer a unique approach. We understand that building resilience is not just a skill but a necessity for officer wellness.
Through our specialized Emotional Recovery for Crisis Response®, we address the specific challenges faced by officers and departments, empowering you to thrive in the face of adversity. At Elias Institute, we go beyond closing the resiliency training gap – we create a foundation for lasting resilience and leadership excellence with a coach approach.
Coach Approach
The command and leadership culture is ideal for taking a coach approach to leadership and officer engagement. Formal coach training supports leaders in leveraging officer skills, insight, experience, and real world solutions to address ongoing individual and departmental challenges, building community engagement, and fostering ongoing collaboration with other agencies. (Walter Reed, 2022)
Leadership that Inspires
A resilient leader is an individual who effectively manages stress and recovers quickly from challenges demonstrating personal resilience in the face of adversity. Resiliency leadership, on the other hand, is an organizational approach that fosters resilience among team members. It involves adopting habits that promote resilience, coaching followers, inspiring innovation, and creating a collaborative workplace culture.
Culture of Resiliency
Resiliency leadership takes a systems approach to identify and adopt protocols and organizational structures that, by their nature, support the daily implementation of habits that promote resiliency. At its core a culture of resiliency enlists a foundation of comradery, peer support, and a fundamental understanding that leadership is there to support and challenge officers to be better today than yesterday.
Emotional Recovery for Crisis Response® Certification Program
Our certification programs are meticulously crafted to comprehensively address the multifaceted needs and intricate challenges encountered by professionals within the public sector, public safety, and law enforcement realms. With a dedicated emphasis on understanding the unique dynamics of these fields, our curriculum offers a thorough exploration of industry-specific nuances and emerging trends. By providing candidates with a robust skill set and profound knowledge base, we empower you to navigate your leadership roles with confidence and effectiveness, ensuring you are well-prepared to meet the demands of your respective domains.
Here at Elias Institute we apply an evidence-informed approach blending knowledge from research, industry best practice, and real world applications to ensure our programs are structured to meet your institutions unique needs. We do more than assume our programs work, we implement formal research practices by conducting Beta programs where we identify preferred outcomes, use standardized forms of measurement, and collect pre and post data. We evaluate that data to make program improvements and updates to identify that the programs are in fact producing the desired outcomes.
Participating in a Beta Program
Tailored to Meet YOUR Needs
Beta refers to the stage in program development where the program is released to a select group of participants before its open to the general public. This allows us to gather valuable insights, identify desired outcomes, and make improvements based on program outcomes and participant feedback.
Tuition Reduction
Participants of this program will have early access to this ground braking program that provides you with professional association certification, 3 pre-post leadership assessments, 1:1 coaching, mentor coaching, mid-program check-in, peer support, certified instructor feedback, tuition discounts, and much more.
We're Here to Support You
As you move through the program our team will work with you and your department closely to ensure positive outcomes. The program is structured to provide you with peer support, certified instructor feedback, and mentor coaching. We encourage you to provide us with feedback and insights throughout the program.
ADDMISSION
Getting Started
Select Your Module
Chose the module that is right for you to get started: Crisis Response Coach Certification (Module 1) or Transformational Leadership Coach Certification (Module 2).
If you’re undecided we are happy to chat with you about your personal interest and professional needs to assist you in making your selection.
This is a self-paced hybrid program tailored to meet the needs of your busy lifestyle. You can register for the entire flagship program or move through the program one module at a time.
Crisis Response Coach Certification
This program is uniquely designed to provide the tools and techniques to support government agencies, first responders, educational institutions, and private industry in responding to a local or global crisis.
In addition, when parried with the Transformational Leadership Coaching program adds an additional layer to support building hardy and resilient teams, organizational wellness, innovation, and system reform.
Transformational Leadership Coach Certification
Professional coaching is the key to organizational success. The ability to effectively “coach” followers takes training and skill development to inspire, engage, motivate, and develop effective accountability structures to achieve desired results.
This is why coaching is so valuable in the workplace and one of the fastest growing professions, being recognized for added value in productivity, employee satisfaction, and organizational wellness in every industry where coaching has been applied.
The Transformational Leadership Coach Certification provides you with leadership development, formal coach training, and an easy to use four-step process to become more transformational in your leadership style.
Organizational Wellness through Transformational Leadership Coaching Certification
The workplace can be a source of comradery, collaboration, and self-actualization. Our work provides for our families and contributes to our communities. However, the workplace can also be a place of overwhelming stress, isolation, and discord. Our Organizational Wellness Coaching Foundations program is uniquely designed to provide the tools and training to transform the workplace.
How we care for our health impacts every aspect of our life. Our individual health dictates our mood, energy level, ability to concentrate, and manage stress. Organizational wellness is equally important. Enjoy a systems approach to how our overall well-being is tied to our individual health and how our environment plays a direct role in our well-being.
Get Started with a Unique Specialization
Choose your first module: Crsis Response Coach Certification or Transformaitonal Leadership specialization.
Mentor Coaching
Enjoy the support of like-minded professionals as you build coaching mastery and grow your coaching practice.
Expand Your Services with Groups
Bring added value to your community and grow your practice with group coaching programs.
Organizational Wellness
Build hardy and resilient teams, navigate system reform, foster your organizational wellness through transformational leadership.
The ONLY Program of its Kind in the World!
Uniquely Designed to Support System Reform and Organizational Wellness
Detailed Description of Program Structure
Our Flagship program Organizational Wellness through Transformational Leadership contains all three of our coach certification program, additional advanced course work, and mentor coaching.
Below is a breakdown of the course structure, you can also visit each certification page for additional information and unique program benefits with start dates and times.
There are coaching foundation courses that are part of both of our main coach certification program (CRC and TLC). Once you complete the foundational course you enter into the specialization tract courses either Crisis Response or Transformational Leadership.
Since this program includes both of these program you will pick one to begin with depending on your interests and professional goals. After you have completed your first specialization tract you may enter into the second specialization tract.
Once you have attended 60 hours of the specialized coach certification program and conducted 100 hours of individual coaching you will be eligible to attend the Group Coaching Certification. After you have completed the three certifications CRC, TLC, and GCC you will take your advanced course.
This program can be completed in as little as a year or you can complete it at your own pace. To provide you with flexibility that matches your lifestyle you can register for the program once certification at a time or you can fast track your training experience by registering for the complete Organizational Wellness through Transformational Leadership Coach Certification program.
Course Content Outline
Coaching Foundations
- Coaching foundations: skills, techniques, and practice
- Transformational leadership and coaching
- Using assessments in coaching
- Coaching to foster motivation
- Coaching for Transfer of Training: Building a Coaching Culture
- Build a thriving coaching practice (internal or external).
- Coaching to Build Hardiness and Resilience
- Coaching Competency Practicum & Feedback
Specialization Tract: Transformational Leadership
- Principle centered leadership and coaching
- Coaching to build bridges & Managing Up
- Brief Coaching Techniques & Managerial Coaching
- Coaching to develop emerging leaders
- Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Coaching: designing and implementing change initiatives
- Coaching for System Reform
- Coaching to build cohesive teams
- Internal Coaching: Building a Coaching Culture
Group Coaching Certification
- Group Coaching Foundations
- Using Assessments in Group Coaching
- Group Coaching for Nonclinical Trauma Reduction
- Coaching Virtual Social Support Groups Webinar
- Group Dynamics and Group Coaching
- Group Coaching Practicum and Feedback
- Transformational Leadership and Crisis Response Group Coaching
Specialization Tract: Crisis Response Coach
- Community Outreach and Crisis Response
- Coaching for Nonclinical Trauma Reduction
- Tactical Coaching for local and global Crisis Response
- Tactical Group Coaching for Crisis Response
- Wellness Coaching for crisis response
- Stress Reduction & Sleep Hygiene
- Physical Health and Wellness Chronic Disease
- Health Behaviors: Social & Behavioral Risk Factors
- Preparing for the Health and Wellness Exam
Assessments & Video Series
Three Assessments
Assessments are powerful tools to implement within the coaching relationship. To experience this first hand you will receive the Hardiness Resilience Gauge (HRG), Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).
Best Practice Video Series
This video series provides you with academically rigorous theory and industry best practice tools, techniques, and principles to develop mastery. Each course is accompanied by a custom video series broken into 20 or 30 min segments uniquely designed to fit your busy lifestyle.
Program Structured Delivery and Time Commitments
- Length of Training
- Can be completed in as little as 52 Weeks for fast track.
- Delivery of Training
- Virtual Live Weekly Course, Video Series, Experiential Learning Assignments – Practical Application Hands on Learning.
- Experiential Course Work
- Practice: Brief Coaching, Laser Coaching, Community Outreach, Dissemination of Non-Clinical Trauma Reduction
- Building Coaching Skills
- Students will expeirence peer-to-peer coaching as both coach and coachee
- Approximately 6 – 8 Hours Per Week
- Two-hour live virtual session twice a week course, video series weekly videos 30-60 min videos each week, interactive group assignments, plus bonus events
Program Schedule: Dates and Times
**All Program Dates are in Pacific Standard Time
- Day & Time Live Class Meets
- Class time and dates vary based on specialization track. Visit specialization page for summer registration.
- Dates of Course
- Each certification will list exact dates including holidays (days when there is not class).
- Must Attend EVERY Class Session
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Choosing Your Program
Begin with a single module or register for the entire program.
ICF Level 1 Coach Training Program
- Saturday 6 Hour Intensive: 8:00 am 2:15 pm PST (30min Break)
- Program 8 Weeks
- September 9, 2023 – October 28, 2023
- 45 Hrs Live Training + 28 Hrs Video Training
- Three Assessments: Hardiness Resilience Gauge, Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, and Percived Stress Scale
- Best Practice Video Series (28 Hours)
ICF Level 2 Coach Training Program
- Start Dates: Oct 11, 2023
- Wednesdays 3:00 pm – 5:45 pm PST (15 min break)
- 77 Hrs total of Coach Education 40 hrs. Live 37 Hrs. Video
- Assessments: Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), Hardiness Resiliency Gauge (HRG), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).
ICF Level 1 & Level 2 Complete Coach Training Package
Organizational Wellness through Transformational Leadership- Includes:
- Level 1 & Level 2 Complete Coach Training Package
- Organizational Wellness through Transformational Leadership Coach Certification
***Advanced coaching courses and mentor coaching not included.
Take Your Leadership to the Next Level with Formal Coach Training
Specialization of Resiliency Leadership & Organizational WellnessClosing the Resiliency Training Gap with a Coach Approach to Leadership
Unlock YOUR Leadership Potential with Professional Coach Training
This program is designed for Chief’s and Mid-Level leaders to bring a leadership coach approach to your department that fosters an organizational culture of resiliency, employee engagement, and positive individual and departmental outcomes.
- This program has successfully been applied in the private sector and has been tailored to meet the unique needs of first responders specifically law enforcement officers. Because this is a Beta program we will tailor each event to the interest and needs of the individual participants and their departments.
- We provide a specialized focus on supporting first responders, public safety workers, and military personnel in navigating high stress environments while fostering hardy and resilient teams.
- Embedded in our coach training are the tips and tools to coach and guide leaders to foster a culture of resiliency to support essential change initiatives that lead to organizational wellness.
Join us on a transformative journey toward closing the resiliency training gap while developing coaching and leadership mastery with real-world applications.
STRUCTURE
Program Structure
Our International Coach Federation (ICF) Approved Level 1 Course is presented in a series of Modules.
Attend a 4 Day Event that provides you with full emersion in the experiential training. Upon registration gain instant access to the pre-event video series. The program begins with 60 hours of foundational coach training in the context of implementation within a leadership capacity beginning with Module’s 1 & 2. Module 1: Coaching Foundations for Leadership Solution and Module 2: Coaching for Designing Actions.
Upon completion of Modules 1 & 2 you will begin your specialization tract of Resiliency Leadership. ***You can start with our Level 1 Program and add the Level 2 program at any time as the Level 2 program includes the Level 1 courses.
Closing the Resiliency Training Gap
In 2022 Walter Reed conducted a study to identify why their resiliency program wasn’t yielding the anticipated utilization they had hoped for in the workplace, recommending a shift to a coaching approach to resolve the gap in the training utilization. The data tells us that there are three key factors that positively contribute to transfer of training or program utilization which we have embedded into all of our training programs. This is relevant for individuals and organizations. (Harvard, 2017)
1. Senior levels of leadership must champion implementation: this means more than buy-in by the senior levels of leadership they must encourage and support ongoing implementation of the new learning.
This is why here at Elias Institute we work directly with senior levels of leadership to provide the organization the guidance and support they need to usher in change.
2. Training must be relevant to the work of the trainee: transfer of training is all about utilization. A participant might find the training interesting and enjoy the learning process, however that training will not transfer unless it is relevant to the day to day tasks of the trainee.
To ensure that our trainings transfer we provide specializations within the coaching format and give you options so choose the specialization that is right for your interests and professional development needs.
3. Trainees require follow up formal professional coaching: after attending a training the participant is excited to return to the workplace and implement the new learning. Unfortunately their coworkers and leaders are not as thrilled. The trainee often runs into a series of obstacles to the implementation of the new learning.
This is where having formal coaching is essential for the transfer of training. When the trainee has a coach to assist them in identifying options for implementation, brainstorming the potential obstacles to implementation, and designing actions to overcome those obstacles with clear action steps transfer of training increases.
When you have formally trained coaches in your organization you will enjoy an improvement of transfer of training and increased success in implementing change initiatives throughout your organization. ***For organzations sending followers to coach training we suggest multiple participants attend to support transfer of training and fostering a coaching culture.
Hybrid Course Structure
Hybrid training programs increase transfer of training, provides the trainee more time to absorb and practice implementation of course material making the overall learning process more effective and enjoyable.
Our hybrid programs vary in structure and delivery. The coach training programs are broken into modules and courses. Each Module has a series of course within that module. Each course comes with an OnDemand video series.
Since our programs are academically rigorous each course has training videos that are provided for the participants prior to the live events. This gives you the opportunity to review and absorb the learning content at a pace that is most comfortable for your unique learning style.
Participants arrive at the live event with an understanding of the general concepts ready to dive in for the experiential part of the learning and skill building. ***The live portion of the training is delivered via Zoom or in person.
Our students have found this unique approach to coach training to deepen their coaching skills and strengthen their overall confidence.
OnDemand Video Series
For each course there is an OnDemand video series. The videos are presented in 5 to 60 minute segments. We encourage you to take notes while watching the video series and bring your questions and insight to the live event where your certified instructors and peers can bring added value to your learning experience.
Your OnDemand video series is housed in the Zenler Platform. You are provided access to your OnDemand video series upon completion of your course registration.
Your OnDemand video series is available to you for 6 months after the completion of your training program.
10 Hours of Mentor Coaching
Throughout the program you will coach, be coached, and observe coaching to deepen your learning as you strengthen your coaching skills. You will be trained in giving and receiving coaching feedback that fosters trust and builds coaching confidence.
Within the mentor coaching part of the program you will participate in group and individual coaching sessions designed to advance your coaching and leadership skills. Peer-to-peer interactions are strongly encouraged.
Upon completion of your first module you are encouraged to start coaching outside the program so that you can share your challenges with the group for brainstorming and problem solving as well as your successes and how to utilize your success to maintain ongoing motivation for your coaching clients.
***The 10 hours of mentor coaching meets the requirements for ICF certification for ACC & PCC.
Skill Building Coaching Practicum and Feedback
In your skill building coaching practicum you will be coach and coachee. You will receive certified instructor led coaching feedback as well as peer-to-peer feedback. You will be trained in giving and receiving clear and concise feedback to advance your coaching and leadership skills.
You will have the opportunity to observe your peers and certified instructors as they provide coaching and get coached. Witnessing the coaching relationship provides a unique perspective that allows you to advance your coaching skills by identifying what is working and what is not working within a coaching session supporting your process of developing coaching mastery.
Professional Review of Your Coaching Sessions
Learn by doing! You will begin practice coaching with your peers on your very fist day within the live session of your coaching program. As you advance throughout the program you will receive written and oral feedback from a certified instructor. Throughout the course of the program you will be observed for a minimum of 5 twenty minute coaching session where you are supported with instructor feedback.
Upon completion of the program you will submit 2 audio recordings of coaching sessions and you will receive written feedback to support you as you continue to build your coaching skills. ***These 2 coaching sessions meet the professional association requirements for certification as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with ICF
3 Day Live Events
You will participate in 3 – 3 Day live events.
The program runs for 6 months and you will attend your in-person live event every other month from your start date.
OnDemand Video Series
Your course content is broken into Modules and course. Each course within your module will have an of OnDemand videos series that you’re required to watch prior to attending your live events.
Mentor Coaching & Peer Support
Prior to your live events you will have a 1:1 coaching session, complete 3 assessments, and do a series of goal setting exercises. Within the program there are 10 hours of mentor coaching presented in group and 1:1 settings. You will practice coaching between live events.
Program
Customization
All Modules and course work can be customized to meet the unique needs of: Female Officers, Tribal Departments, LGBTQ Officers, based on size of department, community needs, or local and state policies. In addition, programs can also be tailored for collaborating agencies, support staff, and civilian agency employees.
COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1: Coaching for Leadership Solutions
Coaching Foundations: Skills, Techniques, and Practice
Coaching for Resiliency Leadership: Transformational Leadership & 3C's of Hardiness
Coaching Competency Practicum & Feedback
Coaching for Transfer of Training: Improve Utilization of Change initiatives by Building a Coaching Culture
Hardiness and Resiliency Level 1: Using the 3C's of Hardiness in Goal Setting
COURSE OUTLINE
Module 2: Coaching for Designing Actions
Wellness Coaching Foundations
Using Assessments In Coaching
Coaching Within a Command & Leadership Setting: Applying Coaching to Your Leadership Tool Kit
Coaching To Foster Motivation
Laser Coaching Techniques
Coaching to Build Hardiness and Resilience Level 2
COURSE OUTLINE
Module 3: Resiliency Leadership Coach
Resiliency Leadership and Coaching in a High Stress Environment
Coaching to Develop Emerging Leaders
Coaching to Build Bridges & Managing Up
Brief Coaching Techniques & Managerial Coaching
Coaching for Change Initiatives & System Reform
Coaching to Build Cohesive Hardy Teams
Internal Coaching: Building a Coaching Culture
OnDemand Video Series
Your OnDemand video series is available for you as soon as you complete your registration process. Enjoy hours of academically rigorous content filled with industry best practices geared for workplace implementation.
Done-for-You Coaching Protocol
To support you as you embark on your coaching journey we provide you with a Done-for-You 12 week coaching protocol that you can structure to fit your specialty and your unique client or organizational needs.
Assessments & Coaching
Assessments are powerful tools to implement within the coaching relationship. To experience this first hand you will receive the Hardiness Resilience Gauge (HRG), Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).
Closing the Resiliency Training Gap
Our comprehensive systems approach fosters organizational wellness, hardy and resilient teams, and organizational wide transfer of training supporting your organizations in closing the resiliency training gap.
TESTIMONIALS
What Our Participants Say
“Dr. Elias provides guidance into building better relationships with subordinates through a more nuanced coaching technique rather than a direct “you should do this” method
Chief Ronald A Cundey
Harrison Twp Police Dept. NJ
“What stood out most to me about the program is that it provided me an opportunity to become more aware of my leadership style(s); how I view myself as a leader as well as how others view me as a leader.”
Chief Michael Davison
Chesterfield Twp Police Dept., NJ