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HEART Training
HEART prepares ordinary people to recognize an active threat, make sound decisions under stress, and keep someone alive until help arrives.
What the course covers
Hazard and Emergency Awareness Response Training is built around the HEART decision model — Hear, Evaluate, Act, Reassess, Treat. It prepares participants to respond effectively to active threat situations and provide immediate trauma care.
The course integrates threat recognition, stress and decision-making science (including the OODA Loop), the FBI Behavioral Change Stairway, and hands-on casualty care skills including tourniquet application and wound packing.
Training is trauma-informed, with built-in content warnings and participant opt-outs.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify pre-incident warning behaviors and select appropriate reporting pathways
- Understand the physiological effects of stress on decision-making
- Apply the HEART model to select appropriate responses (Run, Hide, Fight)
- Demonstrate correct tourniquet application and wound packing technique
- Describe post-incident actions including law enforcement interaction and reunification
Your instructor
Gregory Sampson retired as a 1st Sergeant with the Maryland Transportation Authority Police after twenty years of sworn service, including command of the agency's Training Unit and Crisis Negotiation Team. He is a Marine Corps veteran, and holds more than fifteen instructor certifications. Full background →
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