Erik Hulse retired from the Overland Park Police Department in 2016, after 25 years of service. He is a community teacher for the Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness (MAM), and a trained Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher. Erik also teaches Mindfulness and Stress Reduction for Men (MSRM), an 8-week course drawing from the latest research and best practices of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) and Emotional Intelligence to explore the causes of human distress, and offer pathways to relieving suffering through formal and informal mindfulness practices within the context of the contemporary male experience.