TRAINING COURSES (more training under Train-the-trainer)

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Legal Liability for Corrections is an extraordinary course as attendees will understand the significance of surface,

partial, and total liability. What may once have appeared to be an isolated incident, now has evolve into an agency-wide nightmare – this is what happens when we deal with liability on the surface as opposed to investigating and eliminating the risks at the root. We need to understand the laws and protections for inmates and ensure that every officer, supervisor, manager, etc., is abiding by such laws, policies, and expectations. There are risks associated with how we talk, how we interact, and how we intervene. Often times, officers don’t think of the risks to ‘agency,’ we have to change

this by creating and enhancing a workforce that is completely knowledgeable about the risks and liabilities that they and their agency will face, and most importantly how to mitigate/prevent them.

Dr. Paris H. Spencer

Tracey Dotson

David Elola

Cost: $395 Per Attendee

This course was designed to compliment the Universal Differences' course that was designed for Law Enforcement.  In this course, Citizens will have the opportunity to understand, the complimental bias training that Law Enforcement is participating in simultaneously.  Law Enforcement will have an understanding of This training as well.  What is unique about this course is that it's Citizen Friendly.  The course is not about bashing or blame, but about understanding of how we process our thoughts and feelings around bias, and how unconsciously, we may be victims of bias driven thoughts that culminate into bias-driven behavior.  And what are we taking about?  What is it that Citizens need to learn about bias, aren't they the victims of biased behavior?  Unfortunately, many of our Citizens have experienced biased behavior, by Law Enforcement, in many different forms and some have experience deep pain and tragedy.  So, when we think about distrust, distust in the process, and distrust in law enfocement, this is why.  We think Citizens expect much more, they expect leadership, peer accountability, and even more to truly build trust, but there is a way.  We too, as citizens, have bias.  Bias is usually associated with wrong or inaccurate processing of facts that are not actually facts.  So, if you've been hurt by someone that belongs to a group, you may have a natural fear of that group, but it doesn't mean that someone else form that group or everyone from that group will hurt you.  If you believe that everyone will, when everyone actually won't, then these are biased thoughts.  So, how can a thought hurt.  Well, perhaps you will not stop or flee, or take matters to protect yourself when you are not being threatened, maybe you will disobey lawful orders, or resist (because you are right), but also resist when you think you are right.  There are so many things and examples to give, but the point is, bias training needs to be for everyone involved, we believe that when we do this, the outcomes are real.  

David Elola

Dr. Paris H. Spencer

Darryl Rivers

Cost $395 Per Attendee

Bias Mediation is the incredible process of bringing  Law Enforcement and it's Citizenry together to participate in two different simultaneous events.  As we know, Law Enforcement agencies are composed of officers who have gone through identical training.  But they also have specialized training that is commensurate with the needs of the agency.  So, we have policing, tactical, technical, forensic, supervisors, managers, etc..  The list could go on forever. The point is, when we say Law Enforcement, we are not just talking about patrol.  Now, couple that with the fact that they too are citizens, with families, tribulations, as well as common tribulations at work.  So, Law Enforcement is a huge mix of more dynamics more than can be counted.  Citizens, on the other hand, do not face the challenges that is strictly Law Enforcement and primarily interact with Law Enforcement through encounters.  However, Citizenry is composed of too many characteristic to count as well.  You have family, relationships, friends, foes, wealth, poverty, drugs, gangs, crime, tragedy, and on and on.  So, what arrives at the encounter are individuals from two different perspectives, that have countless differences and at the same time, many similar understandings.  But what makes this all unique is how we automatically resolve most of our difference and expectations.  I may not agree with the speed limit, but for the most part, I abide by it.  I pull over when lights are behind me, and I stop at the red light, "sure you can have my ID."  Most officers are kind and courteous, fair in their stop, forward with stating the infraction, listens to explanations, treats people the same, don't speed for no reason themselves, tell the truth, etc..  The point is, we are congruent in more ways than one, but we are also out of alignment.  Mediation Bias presents two opportunities for Law Enforcement and it's Citizenry, and when entered into genuinely, great things will happen. 

Universal Differences for Officers and Universal Differences for Citizens are two courses that focus on the "Misconceptions About  Bias."  Mediation Bias puts both of these courses into action with the expectation that both Citizens and Officers will proportionately participate.  These courses occur simultaneously and both gravitate to the same end.  Here's what we want, Biased Behavior needs to stand alone, and we know that when you are in touch with your own misconceptions, your outlook will change and interaction improves.  Biased Behavior is the outlier and should be.   We seriously don't want every officer when one is performing inappropriately and acts out labeling every officer as biased.  We also don't want the smoke screen of non-bias or the coverup and/or practices of biases covered up either.  And we don't want citizens act with biased behavior, or cover up for others or not see what they saw and then expect justice when  their person was in the wrong, and known by them (Citizenry) to be wrong.  No judgement here for either side.  The process that both groups go through begins with Bias recognition, Bias Understanding, Bias Projection, and so forth.  each group will experience a virtually identical process of walking in the shoes of the other, literally walking in the shoes of the other.  (Participate in the Process to Learn More).