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Developing Firefighter Resiliency
Three Key Messages
Training ordinary people to do extraordinary things requires an understanding of how we learn. Developing Firefighter Resiliency starts with the basic psychophysical aspects of learning.
The fire service has unwittingly used a failure-based training model for many years. Hands-on training exercises are often based on unachievable objectives. Trainers are often not educated about the psychology of adult learning or the effect of stress during learning. Consequently, participants face learning activities with mastery-level skill requirement to succeed when competency has yet to be established. This amounts to a never-ending diet of tests without actual skill development. Accessing knowledge under extreme circumstances cannot be left to chance, because the penalty for failure is severe.
This book provides the roadmap for a journey to train, establish relevancy for the lessons, develop competency in the skills, and capitalize on confidence to achieve mastery. We study the impact of a stressful environment on the ability to learn and function.
Training ordinary people to do extraordinary things requires an understanding of how we learn. Developing Firefighter Resiliency starts with the basic psychophysical aspects of learning.
The fire service has unwittingly used a failure-based training model for many years. Hands-on training exercises are often based on unachievable objectives. Trainers are often not educated about the psychology of adult learning or the effect of stress during learning. Consequently, participants face learning activities with mastery-level skill requirement to succeed when competency has yet to be established. This amounts to a never-ending diet of tests without actual skill development. Accessing knowledge under extreme circumstances cannot be left to chance, because the penalty for failure is severe.
This book provides the roadmap for a journey to train, establish relevancy for the lessons, develop competency in the skills, and capitalize on confidence to achieve mastery. We study the impact of a stressful environment on the ability to learn and function.
168 pages, Paperback
Published January 5, 2019
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April 21, 2019
The book has good information, but too choppy in its approach. Lack of clarity in whether this is a training book or firefighter resilience book. The topics did not tie together well. I’d choose Human Performance for Tactical Athletes over this book for firefighter resilience, but I would consider this book in a 1041 course.
March 12, 2023
The book has good information, but too choppy in its approach. Lack of clarity in whether this is a training book or firefighter resilience book. The topics did not tie together well. I’d choose Human Performance for Tactical Athletes over this book for firefighter resilience, but I would consider this book in a 1041 course.
July 28, 2025
it has very good information and has a lot of great concepts towards physiological strength. the writing could have flawed better through the story, the 1st half of the book drug on slowly but I finally gained some traction and reading became more enjoyable.
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