My most valuable training experience, personal and professional, was the 2-week Problem Based Learning course from the Police Society for Problem Based Learning (
https://pspbl.org/). The course and the mentoring that has followed since permanently changed almost every aspect of the way I think, learn, and teach. It also permanently ruined many if not most other traditional training and education products. It is the hardest I have ever worked in a course, physically and mentally, and school usually comes pretty easy for me. With its methods, I get more out of training I attend, I can self educate, I teach better, and I do better for people I'm responsible for. The PBL concept might be described elsewhere as or associated with Student-Centered Learning, Individualized Learning, others. Later, I attended the emotional intelligence course from the same organization built around the same method. I credit both of these courses with a number of specific and general successes. I also credit them with preventing me from running off of a couple of cliffs.
PBL, EI/EQ, mindfulness, etc is often dismissed as new-agey nonsense. I vehemently disagree, and others are coming around and bringing what was previously educational nerdery to the mainstream.
Gun stuff, medical stuff, technical proficiencies on the job...all child's play when you learn how to learn and think better.
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