If you only attend one training class this
year….make sure this one is it!!!
The Jourdanton
Police Department is hosting a training session by nationally renowned professor,
author and police trainer,
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
“The Bulletproof Mind”
(Topics to
include terrorism at schools and critical incident stress)
Lt.
Col. Dave Grossman is an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier,
and speaker who
is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of human aggression and the
roots of violence and violent crime.
Col.
Grossman is a West Point psychology professor, Professor of Military Science,
and an Army Ranger who has combined his experiences to become the founder of a
new field of scientific endeavor, which has been termed “Killology.”
He is
the author of On Killing, which was nominated for a
Pulitzer Prize; and is required reading at the FBI Academy. Col. Grossman
co-authored “Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action
Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence”, which has received
international acclaim. Col. Grossman’s most recent book with Loren Christensen
is On Combat, the highly acclaimed sequel
to On Killing.
He has
presented papers before the national conventions of the American Medical
Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological
Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has presented to over 40 different
colleges and universities world wide.
He has been an expert witness and consultant in
state and Federal courts, to include serving on the prosecution team in UNITED
STATES vs. TIMOTHY MCVEIGH.
He helped train mental health professionals after
the Jonesboro school shootings, and he was also involved in counseling or court
cases in the aftermath of the Paducah, Springfield, and Littleton school
shootings.
He has
testified before U.S. Senate and Congressional committees and numerous state
legislatures, and he and his research have been cited in a national address by
the President of the United States.
Col.
Grossman is an Airborne Ranger infantry officer with a total of over 23 years
experience in leading U.S. soldiers worldwide. He retired from the Army in
February 1998 and has devoted himself full-time to teaching, writing, speaking,
and research. Today he is the director of the Warrior Science Group, and in the
wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks he is on the road almost 300 days a year,
training elite military and law enforcement organizations worldwide about the
reality of combat.
This is
an excellent opportunity that you and your officers
(as well
as your school administrators) will not want to miss.
This training will be held at the:
American Legion Hall-Jourdanton
1404 Texas Highway 16
Jourdanton, Texas 78026
October 26th, 2011
8:00 am- 4:00 pm
Seats are available at only $99 per officer. Lunch will be provided to attendees.
TCLEOSE hours are available to licensed Texas LEOs
through TMPA.
For
questions and to reserve your seat, call the Jourdanton Police Department @
830-769-2241 or
complete and return the attached registration.
From Lt. Col. Dave Grossman-
“If you have no capacity for violence
then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no
empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive
sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have
a capacity for violence AND a deep love for your fellow citizens?
Then you are a sheepdog, a
warrior, someone who is walking the hero’s path, someone who can walk into the
heart of human darkness and walk out unscathed.
The sheep generally do not like the
sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for
violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, cannot and
will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheepdog that intentionally harms the lowliest
little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way,
at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the
sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would
prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or
stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The
sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray-paint
himself white, and go, "Baa."
That is, until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog….”
A limited number of rooms are available at the rate of
$89 per night at the Holiday Inn Express in Jourdanton (830-769-3323 or
holidayjourdanton@ogihotels.com). Please
mention that you are attending the “Jourdanton Police Department Training” to
receive this special rate.
Registration for Lt. Col. Dave Grossman’s “Bulletproof
Mind”
American Legion Hall-Jourdanton
1404 Texas Highway 16
Jourdanton, Texas 78026
October 26th, 2011
8:00 am- 4:00 pm
Name/Rank:
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Agency:
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Address: ___________________________________________________________________
Phone:
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Payment can be mailed and
made payable to:
Jourdanton Police Department
1212A Simmons Ave.
Jourdanton, TX 78026
Registration can be faxed to: 830-769-3060
To pay by credit card,
contact Jeanette Hall at 830-769-2241