The three-day, interactive, active learning program that is typically guided by 3-5 group facilitators who follow a Montessori-like, student interest, process that inculcates the key points of the curriculum. During this training, students and facilitators spend the first several hours of the training discussing some of their own personal trauma with the group during introductions. This allows students to unload the baggage of past trauma; understand that they are not alone in their experience; bonds the group together as they get to know each other.  What makes the RMOTFL training unique is that facilitators for each law enforcement group are either active or retired law enforcement.  The facilitators are the first to become vulnerable and share their stories.  As such, our facilitators are extremely good at setting a safe space and connecting with students because of the shared experiences.  Put another way, our facilitators are very  comfortable, facilitating from the law enforcement and first responder culture because they are from that culture.  Because the law enforcement culture has historically been a male dominated profession, it has been our experience that women in law enforcement have specific stressors unique to them.  As such, our training team of facilitators regularly has at least one female facilitator.

Stories discussed in the introduction will then be used later in the course when teaching different resiliency concepts. Many resiliency courses on the market focus solely on mindfulness. Mindfulness, while important, is one of several tools that is taught in the RMOTFL training program. What separates the RMOFTL program is that students are provided with a series of tools that they can use in any fashion they want in their own resilience journey. 

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The full curriculum includes:
•    the importance of positive emotions;
•    gratitude and blessings;
•    balanced thinking and growth mindset;
•    goal setting and understanding triggers which cause unproductive reactions that interfere with performance, goals, and relationships;
•    understanding how the brain interprets activating events and the emotional and physiological consequences (“ABCDE” Model);
•    effective active listening communication skills;
•    meaning making and acceptance;
•    spiritual, physiological, mental, emotional, and financial resilience;
•    build trauma awareness through an understanding of the psychological effects of vicarious, experienced, and cumulative trauma; and
•    meditation, yoga, tactical breathing.