Sessions

The session lineup for the 2026 Advanced Training Design Workshop.

2026 lineup / Dec 4-5 / Sixteen sessions

Sixteen sessions across two days, all in the same room. Every one of them runs the same way: about 25 minutes of hands-on demonstration, 15 minutes of what and why, and 10 minutes of the room pushing back.

Filter by category below, or see the running order on the schedule.

The What, Why, and How of Educating Attention

Keynote
Skill acquisition

Opening keynote. Full session description to come.

Friday 4 Dec, 8:00 AM
Rob Gray, Arizona State University

Empowering Feedback: Enhancing Student Learning Through Socratic Feedback

Instructor development

Feedback types, what each one does to motivation and attention, and hands-on practice running a Socratic debrief.

Friday 4 Dec, 9:00 AM
Chris Butler, Raptor Public Safety Coaching

The Problem-First Approach to Control Tactics Training

Control tactics

Control tactics organised around problem spaces rather than technique progressions, using the 3Ms model.

Friday 4 Dec, 10:00 AM
Bob Duffey, Walworth County Sheriff’s Office / C4C Police Jiu-Jitsu

Prone Restraint Through a Constraints-Led Approach

Control tactics

Prone control taught as constraint manipulation, working backward from the controlled end state.

Friday 4 Dec, 11:00 AM
Bryce Franck, Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office, Rockford, Illinois

Constraints-Led Instruction for Room Entry and Hallway Movement

Active attacker

A constraints-led build of active attacker tactics, run in hallway and room space.

Friday 4 Dec, 1:00 PM
Chris Barawed, Boise Police Department

Beyond the Tug-of-War: Grappling-Based Methods for Safe Hand Extraction During Prone Resistance

Control tactics

Grappling-based methods for the prone subject who tucks his hands and will not give them up.

Friday 4 Dec, 2:00 PM
William Moore, Austin Police Department

The Tri-Axial Scaffolding Framework for Task Learning

Instructor development
Skill acquisition

Where to put a scaffold: a framework keyed to learner expertise, task complexity, and environmental dependence.

Friday 4 Dec, 3:00 PM
Collin Murray, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office / Clemson University

Micro Doses = Massive Impact: Roll Call Training for Patrol Excellence

Instructor development
Decision-making

Colonie PD’s 13-week roll-call micro-dosing program, run live, with the evaluation findings.

Friday 4 Dec, 4:00 PM
Jay Gerace, Chief of Police, Town of Colonie, New York

Training the Decision, Not Just the Skill: Improving Threat Recognition and Response

Weapons
Decision-making

Threat perception and firearm access trained together, with suspect movement as the stimulus.

Saturday 5 Dec, 8:00 AM
Kevin Giesler, Lieutenant, Cobb County Police Department, Marietta, Georgia

From Techniques to Adaptability: An Ecological Approach to Weapons-Based Defensive Tactics

Weapons
Control tactics

Small-sided games and designed constraints across handfighting, clinch, grounded, and transitional ranges.

Saturday 5 Dec, 9:00 AM
Randy Wark, Cary Police Department, North Carolina

When They Bring a Knife to a Gunfight: Training for Real-World Weapon Encounters

Weapons
Control tactics

Edged-weapon defense built into standing grappling rather than taught as a separate system.

Saturday 5 Dec, 10:00 AM
Adam Singer, Head Coach, SBG Athens

You’ve Got To Be Joking! A Humor Workshop for Trainers

Instructor development

Why humor buys attention, how jokes are built, and writing and delivering your own material.

Saturday 5 Dec, 11:00 AM
Dan Fraser, Royal Canadian Mounted Police / Fraser Training Solutions

Scenario First: Training Adaptable Responders for Uncertain Environments

Scenario design
Tactical medicine

Hemorrhage control is the working example; scenario design is the subject.

Saturday 5 Dec, 1:00 PM
Alex Odintsov, Abbotsford Police Department / Wolf Training Systems

Training Medical Care in Low-Resource Environments

Tactical medicine

What to teach, what to cut, and how to train it when the equipment and the evacuation are not there.

Saturday 5 Dec, 2:00 PM
Michal Pospíšil, Masaryk University Faculty of Medicine, Brno, Czech Republic

From Dead Drills to Alive Problems: Designing and Scaling Scenarios

Scenario design

Turning a familiar TASER drill into an alive problem, and scaling it across experience levels.

Saturday 5 Dec, 3:00 PM
Jesse Campion, Lieutenant, Director of Training, Denver Police Department

Active Attack in the Workplace: Now, Survive

Active attacker
Scenario design

Stress-based training that prepares civilians to survive an active attack by reading and using their real-world environment.

Saturday 5 Dec, 4:00 PM
John Cantarella, Northeast Regional Manager, ALERRT Center, Texas State University
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