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BC First Responder Resiliency Program
Duncan Shields, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor The Men’s Initiative, UBC Faculty of Medicine
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Civilian Society
Danger
Chaos
Unpredictability
Fragility of Life
Safe and Secure
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Civilian Society
Danger
Chaos
Unpredictability
Fragility of Life
Safe and Secure
Stoic Service Cultures
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There had always been stigma around
this throughout my life and career. It
was hard for me to reconcile that who I
thought was a strong man had these
problems and needed the help of
someone else.
Strong versus Struggling
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…at my work, psychologist is a
dirty word. Nobody wants to see
the psychologist… like if you have
to see the psychologist then
you’re weak… broken.
Strong versus Struggling
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Format
• 31/2 day residential retreat
• Up to 8 participants
• Upstream but screened
• 2 professional facilitators
• 1-2 peer team leads
Fire Fighter Resiliency Program
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Program Trajectory
4. Moving Out
Strategic Goal Setting1.Creating the
Safe Zone/Team
3. Consolidating Strengths
Re-equipping2. The Work
“Dropping Baggage”
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5B’s of Performance Resilience
4. Behaviour Zone – Goal oriented actions and
attending to sleep, diet, routine, exercise
1. Brain Zone - Talking yourself “down and through”
5. Bonds – Share it, don’t wear it. Performance and
resilience emerge in the context of cohesive
relationships
2. Breath Zone – Regulating breathing to activate the
bodies parasympathetic response
3. Body Zone – Grounding the body
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Beck Depression Inventory II
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PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)
18.58
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Outcome Questionnaire-45.2 (OQ-45)
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It took hope to show up to a program
like this and it took courage to fully
participate.
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I arrived broken, anxious and feeling
alone.
I left empowered, more at peace, and
with what I anticipate will be a lifelong
bond with 9 new peers that is unlike
anything I have ever experienced.
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I am no longer in a downward spiral of
isolation and depression. I have a light
at the end of the tunnel and am for
the first time in a very long time
hopeful for a bright future.
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This program literally saved my life. Just 2
weeks prior I was seriously considering
suicide - the third time of late, complete
with a plan.
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This wasn’t about four days,
this was about changing our
lives.
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We were challenged to build a team, a team
that could trust each other in sharing raw pain,
so much so that we would have each others
back at all times.
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Thank You!
The Men’s Initiative at UBC
Faculty of Medicine
Resilient Service Cultures