by Crawford Coates | Mar 2, 2023 | Blogs
The study of situational awareness began in aviation and spread quickly to other fields, including public safety. It’s common nowadays to hear law enforcement, EMS, fire-rescue, and 911 personnel, as well as the vendors that serve them, talk about enhancing...
by Crawford Coates | Jan 5, 2023 | Blogs
Another year lost to the proverbial waste bin of time and I couldn’t be happier. Not because I’m bitter, and certainly not that I am a ball-drop-and-champagne kind of person. Not because I’m particularly reflective, either. It’s simply a nice reminder of the reality...
by Crawford Coates | Oct 7, 2022 | Blogs
I wrote an article about the term mindfulness a while back because it seems to cause some confusion. My friend George Ryan, who teaches meditation to LAPD special teams officers, doesn’t like the term. “I don’t want your mind to be full,” he...
by Crawford Coates | Oct 6, 2022 | Blogs
Nobody knows for sure rates of substance abuse among American first responders. Psychologist Ellen Kirschman and epidemiologist John Violanti–two of my heroes–have been looking at this for decades now. According to Kirschman, law enforcement officers...
by Crawford Coates | Sep 26, 2022 | Blogs
When Thich Nhat Hanh died early this year, I, like so many, was saddened. Even though he had been withdrawing from public life for several years, he continued to inspire legions—and not simply through his words, though he had authored dozens of books and given...
by Crawford Coates | Feb 6, 2020 | Blogs
It might surprise you to discover that researchers at Harvard Medical School studying mindfulness struggled to explain their research to His Holiness the Dali Lama. Why? Not because they couldn’t translate their work into Tibetan; the Dali Lama comes with his own...
