For those of you who loved the Armor Your Self book, but wanted to share that information with your peers, the Law Enforcement Survival Institute has just released several different Study & Discussion Guide Packages designed to assist individuals, small study groups and law enforcement book clubs.
The two study packages, built around the book Armor Your Self: How to Survive a Career in Law Enforcement, include either 5 or 10 copies of the Armor Your Self: How to Survive a Career in Law Enforcement resilience building textbooks. These collections are a Do-It-Yourself package for book clubs, small groups or academy classes that can’t afford more expensive training, but want to explore the Armor Your Self textbook more deeply. These two packages include… 5 or 10 Armor Your Self: How to Survive a Career in Law Enforcement resilience building textbooks, plus a 24-page PDF Study & Discussion Guide. (All packages include free shipping on the books).
You can learn more, or purchase the Study & Discussion Guide packages by visiting:
https://armoryourself.com/store
We have also added our Armor Your Self Toolkit a 64-page Downloadable PDF Companion Workbook.
You will conduct a “Threat Assessment” of your life and career and then to benchmark your organizations programs using different models for wellness. You can begin to build your own strategic wellness plan and use the CopsAlive.com short-term wellness planning checklist to steer your life and career toward positive and successful career survival. The Toolkit also includes self-paced training modules so you can create a system of “Fire Spotters and Smoke Jumpers” to recognize trouble and then establish a “Family Support System” to create positive relationships. It also includes information on the ten Steps toward creating “Tactical Wellness”.
Finally, the Toolkit can also be bundled with one Armor Your Self book and the AYS Study & Discussion Guide.
None of these are a full training curriculum, but rather a guided tour of each chapter of the book with discussion questions, activities and action planning suggestions. If you are looking for a more thorough Do-It-Yourself training program, please consider one of our Small Agency Curriculum Packages. (All packages include free shipping on the books).
You can learn more, or purchase the curriculum packages by visiting:
https://armoryourself.com/curriculum/
HERE’S WHAT SOME HAVE SAID ABOUT ARMOR YOUR SELF™:
In a book review published in Canada’s national law enforcement magazine BlueLine – retired, RCMP Insp. Gibson Glavin said:
“John Marx’s Armor Your Self is a worthy addition to a growing body of well researched and thoughtfully presented books… on career resiliency in law enforcement” and “Armor Your Self somewhat unique is that Marx, a 23-year veteran of policing in the Unites States, has gone beyond the theoretical or experiential approach of many books on the subject. Instead he has created a “how to” practical training and educational system for both the individual and police force to follow.“ and “John Marx’s Armor Your Self “How to Survive a Career in Law Enforcement” is not just another emotional survival book for police. It contains achievable and intuitively appropriate steps and training outcomes for the cultural, physical, emotional and spiritual health of police officers. It is a resource that all Canadian police should take note of. I would not be surprised if Canada’s auditor general has done so.”
In a review published in the South African Community-based Safety and Security Magazine – Servamus said:
“This book is not meant to be a quick fix, but rather aims to empower readers if they are willing to do the work needed to benefit from its contents. In other words, this book is a “programme” to assist law enforcers to make themselves stronger and better able to endure the rigours of the job … and in helping each other. This book is indeed different to others thanks to the practical examples written by a fellow cop who has experienced a lot of hidden dangers and who sees a need for the profession to improve.”
Australian Federal Police Association BlueStar magazine review stated:
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“Police suicide, job burnout, divorce, PTSD and alcoholism are just a few of the negative outcomes of our career that we are warned about before joining up. Yet despite these warnings, such problems still plague members of our profession…In his book, Marx gives our profession a comprehensive plan, or what he calls a “system of systems” to get to the root causes of these problems and to build wellness and resilience for all of our people.”
ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR THE ARMOR YOUR SELF BOOK:
“Wow! Armor Your Self is a landmark, pioneering work, that belongs on every cop’s bookshelf. Get this book! Study this book! Apply this book! It will save careers, it will save marriages, and it will save lives! Relatives of police should give this book to “your” cop. Mental health and medical practitioners, counselors, psychologists and therapists should use this book as a part of your wellness and therapeutic plan for police officers. There is no other book like this available today. It is essential and irreplaceable. And a hearty “Well done!” to John Marx! These are hard times in law enforcement, and in our nation, and I believe John was put here “for just such a time as this.””
Dave Grossman, Lt. Col., USA (ret.)
Author of On Combat,
On Killing, and
Assassination Generation
“The book, Armor Your Self™: How To Survive A Career In Law Enforcement gives information and skills to the law enforcement professional to not only survive their career, but also to stop transferring unresolved emotional issues into inappropriate police conduct. An important contribution to the law enforcement field.”
Kevin M. Gilmartin, Ph.D.
Behavioral Sciences and Management Consultant
Author of Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement
“If a book is weighed on the basis of how useful it is, Armor Your Self weighs a ton! Step by practical step, it coaches you on how to build the life-saving skill of resilience, the most critical quality for surviving the physical, mental, and emotional perils of a law enforcement career. A perfect gift for new recruits, an invaluable Rx for veteran officers who already are under siege from the many threats and stresses of the Job.”
Charles Remsberg
Author, the Street Survival book series
“Armor Your Self: How To Survive A Career In Law Enforcement is an essential read for all law enforcement officers. John Marx is an experienced veteran police officer who provides practical and comprehensive information necessary for career-long officer-wellness. It is equally significant to spouses of officers and others that have an interest in the challenges confronted by modern day law enforcement officers.”
Jack. A. Digliani, PhD, EdD
Police Psychologist
Author of Reflections of a Police Psychologist and
Contemporary Issues in Police Psychology:
Police Peer Support Team Training and
the Make it Safe Police Officer Initiative
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Our “Armor Your Self™: How to Survive a Career in Law Enforcement” on-site training program is an eight hour, hands-on, “How to” seminar based upon John Marx’ book of the same name. This seminar helps police officers and other law enforcement professionals armor themselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to build Tactical Resilience™ and survive their careers in police work. To learn more CLICK HERE. To learn about and buy the book CLICK HERE.
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