Journey Forward: The M.M.A.P. For Success develops skills, mental strength and agility. Developed and delivered by veterans, our mindfulness training provides a toolkit to improve performance on the job and quality of life off the job. Learn how to recalibrate and rest your nervous system – feel better and sleep better by managing your stress. Then apply these techniques to enhance your ability to connect, communicate, concentrate and maintain focus. Attain new levels of situational awareness and performance and stay on your best game at home, at play and on the job.

Journey Forward: The M.M.A.P. For Success

Veteran's Path - Journey Forward MMAP - Program Workbook

What is Mindfulness?

How Will I Benefit?

Guided Practice:  Internal Selfie

Guided Practice:  Basic Belly Breathing

This session discusses the role of mindfulness in relation to stress management and offers a guided visualization to clarify intention and motivation.

Introduction to Mindfulness

Awareness

Curious Observation

Cognitive Flexibility

Attitudes of Mindfulness

Focus

This session expands on the understanding of mindfulness as well as begins to explore the reactions to stress, the stress cycle and the 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness.

Understanding the Stress Cycle

Guided Practice:  Belly Breath Nighty Night

Guided Practice:  Belly Breath Superset

This session deepens mindfulness skills and plans for how to apply mindfulness in daily life activities.

Integrating Mindfulness into your Daily Life

Guided Practice:  Belly Breath Body Scan

This session expands on the stress response and how mindfulness can help participants respond to stress more skillfully.

Recognizing Stress in the Body

Guided Practice:  Contact Excercise

This session explores the obstacles that can get in the way of developing a consistent mindfulness practice and focuses on strategies to move beyond those obstacles.

Establishing a Mindful Routine

This session discusses more about the link between stress and performance, identifies common workplace stressors, and introduces mindfulness strategies to improve the stress response.

Stress and Performance

Guided Practice:  Ride the Breath (Sets of 7)

This session focuses on developing mindfulness strategies to stop automatic responses to stress and how to use mindfulness practices to improve focused attention.

Awareness and Focus

Guided Practice:  Ride the Breath (Sets of 14)

This session looks more closely at how thought patterns often generate, or add to the, stress experienced in life.

Working with Thoughts

Guided Practice:  Emotional Body Scan

This session focuses on recognizing emotions in the body, understand the interplay between thoughts and emotions during the stress cycle and how emotional literacy can help to work more effectively with emotions when experiencing stress.

Awareness of Emotions

Guided Practice:  Loving-Kindness

This session integrates what has been learned by creating a plan to apply mindfulness to manage stress more effectively.