Mondo´s volunteers in Georgia

In January I was still working on translating the training materials into Georgian and researching the topic of suicide prevention, current situation and legal legislation in Georgia. And from the beginning of February, supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and organised by the Association Merkuri, we started a series of training seminars and workshops for the law enforcement officers. The project was dedicated to the topic of stress management, psychological first aid, resilience building and suicide prevention, and it went on over the whole month of February. Each trained group received one full and one half day training. The groups were of maximally 12 participants to ensure interactive facilitation, active dialog, direct feedback and exchange with the officers. On the first day we focused on understanding stress and its specifics in the profession of a police officer. We aimed at identifying internal and external stressors. Later we discussed the effect of s...