Training & Equipping

Course Length: 1-3 Days depending on curriculum selection and training requirements.

Intended Audience: Missionaries serving in open countries where open proclamation, public assembly, or institutional church expression is generally permitted by culture or law.

Course Modules:

• Theology of Risk
• Security In the Context of Ministry
• Understanding the Attack Cycle
• OODA
• Situational Awareness/Body language & Threat Recognition
• Hostile Observation Detection
• Psychological First Aid
• Dealing with Hyperarousal
• Interviews, Screenings, and Interrogation
• Safety and Security with Communications and Technology
• Carjacking Avoidance & Survival
• Ethical Decision Making Under Duress
• De-Escalating Violence
• Active Shooter Survival
• Captivity Survival

Course Length:1-3 Days depending on curriculum selection and training requirements.

Intended Audience: Gospel workers serving in areas or under conditions where open proclamation, public assembly, or institutional church expression is constrained by culture or law.

Course Curriculum:

All CAST Modules Contextualized for RACE Environments, Plus:

• Understanding the Calling and Biblical Rationale for Restricted Access Ministry
• Developing an Image that Empowers Ministry Through Credibility and Legitimacy Under Scrutiny
• Insights On Developing Gospel Relationships Without Violating Legal Status
• Calling vs. Status: Clarifying Personal  Calling from Legal Status
• Information Security (INFOSEC)

Course Length: 3.5 Days depending on training requirements.

Intended Audience: Concilium’s Field Security Course is an immersive training intended for missionaries and gospel workers serving in both open and restricted access nations. Concilium’s FSC is a standalone training program with hands on and immersive exercises that next level the CAST and RACE experience.

Course Curriculum:

All CAST Modules, Plus:

Executive Protection Training & Security Consulting

In today’s operating environment, leaders and public-facing figures face increasingly complex and unpredictable threats. Recent global events have reinforced the need for organizations—particularly mission-driven and faith-based ones—to approach executive safety with professionalism, preparation, and clear purpose.

Concilium provides tailored executive protection (EP) training and security consulting designed specifically for faith-based organizations, NGOs, and mission-driven institutions operating within unique risk profiles, constrained resources, and often-global footprints.

We recognize that many organizations require professional protective capability without the scale, staffing, or infrastructure of traditional corporate security programs. Our work intentionally bridges that gap—delivering practical, scalable, and mission-aligned protection solutions that respect both operational realities and organizational values.

Who We Serve

Our executive protection programs are designed for organizations such as:

• Churches and faith-based institutions providing part-time or event-based protection for pastors, visiting speakers, and senior leadership
• NGOs and humanitarian organizations with domestic and international operations
• Faith-based organizations deploying executives, donors, or VIPs into higher-risk environments
• Small protective teams operating with limited manpower, time, and budget

We specialize in supporting clients whose mission context demands security solutions that are discreet, ethical, legally sound, and aligned with ministry or humanitarian objectives—without undermining credibility, hospitality, or witness.

Our Approach

Concilium delivers customized consulting and training led by experienced executive protection professionals who understand:

• The operational realities of small and part-time protective teams
• Budgetary and staffing constraints common to nonprofit and ministry environments
• The tension between visible security and welcoming, relational spaces
• Cultural, theological, and reputational sensitivities unique to faith-based and humanitarian work

All training and consulting engagements are adapted to your mission set, operating environment, and organizational structure. Our goal is not to impose a one-size-fits-all EP model, but to help organizations build protection capability that is proportionate, sustainable, and aligned with their risk capacity.

Consulting Services

Organizations may engage Concilium for support including:

• Development of executive protection programs from the ground up
• Risk-informed security planning for domestic and international travel
• Protective posture and vulnerability assessments
• Policy, protocol, and governance development
• Integration of security practices into ministry, nonprofit, or humanitarian operations

Our consulting emphasizes prevention, preparedness, and clarity—reducing uncertainty rather than attempting to eliminate risk.

Training Programs

Concilium offers modular executive protection training packages that can be delivered as stand-alone courses or integrated into a comprehensive EP development pathway.

Training components may include:

• Administrative and legal considerations for establishing an EP function
• Fitness-for-duty standards and readiness expectations
• Executive protection team roles and responsibilities
• Small-team protective operations (1–5+ personnel)
• Advance work (domestic and international considerations)
• Overt versus discreet protection strategies
• Arrival and departure procedures
• Venue security and event planning
• Vehicle dynamics and protective driving safety
• Motorcade operations
• Immediate action and response to attacks or incidents
• Tactical and trauma medical considerations
• Weapons handling considerations (where legally appropriate and mission-aligned)
• Coordination with other protective teams, local partners, and authorities

Training is grounded in real-world application and designed to build competence, judgment, and disciplined decision-making.

Built for Mission-Driven Protection

Concilium’s executive protection philosophy recognizes that security in ministry and nonprofit environments must be:

• Professional without being intrusive
• Effective without being excessive
• Sustainable within real-world resource constraints

Our work equips organizations to protect people and missions with confidence, competence, and clarity—so leaders can focus on their calling, not their vulnerability.

Course Length: 2-10 Days depending on training requirements.

Intended Audience: Concilium’s HEAT program helps Gospel workers and Christian humanitarians maintain their safety in complex and hostile environments, including warzones. Concilium’s HEAT courses provide participants with the know-how and skills to deal with credible threats in areas prone to violent conflict, terrorism, acts of war, state detainment, and kidnapping.

Course Curriculum:

All CAST and FSC Modules, Plus:

• Trans-Cultural Situational Awareness
• Dealing with Unexploded Ordinance
• Landmine Familiarization
• Convoy Principles and Best Practices
• Surviving Ambush
• Contingency Planning
• Map Reading, GPS, and Navigation
• First Aid in High Threat Environments
• Mental Acuity and Behavior Under Fire
• Go Bags and Shelter In Place Kits
• Final Immersion Exercise
• Exercise Debriefing

1-2 Day Course

Security Risk Management helps mission orgs decrease the likelihood of a critical incident on the mission field. The SRM course addresses how to develop and implement effective security management programs that decrease organizational vulnerabilities to threats while decreasing the impact of critical incidents through effective contingency planning.

SRM Program Includes:

• Practical Application of Theology of Risk to Security Management

• Principles of Security-Risk Management

• Risk Assessment & Response

• Risk Assessment Tools

• What Makes an Effective Great Commission Security Manager?

• Developing and Implementing an SRM program in Great Commission Work

• Organizational Management Principles

• Realities of Great Commission Security Management

1-2 Day Course

Concilium’s Crisis Management Foundations is a crisis management seminar designed for missionary leadership and staff at home and abroad who may find themselves managing organizational crises. Whether at headquarters or on the field, this course is a powerful crisis management resource!

CMF Program Includes:

• Introduction to Crisis Management
• The Systematic Theology of Risk
• Risk Assessment: Identifying your Vulnerabilities
• Risk Mitigation & Contingency Planning
• Principles of Crisis Management
• Crisis Management Teams
• Engaging Crisis Consultants and Hostage Negotiators
• Crisis Scenario/Tabletop Exercise

3+ Day Course

Concilium’s SRCM course combines the SRM and CMF into a comprehensive 3+ day course. When privately contracted, the SRCM can be run in conjunction with security management consulting and crafted to help mission organizations implement or improve their current security and crisis management programs. Also, Concilium often runs the SRCM course in conjunction with our Field Security Courses in Kansas City. This allows us to integrate the crisis management tabletop exercise with the final exercise of the FSC, providing an intensive real-world experience of crisis management with learning experiences that go beyond the classroom.

1-2 Day Course

More and more often critical incidents facing Great Commission orgs are taking place in restricted access areas—areas where ministries are using platforms and other creative ideas for Great Commission engagement. Concilium’s RACM Course is a one-of-a-kind course designed to help leaders manage critical incidents while protecting platforms and personnel targeted by ideological actors so gospel workers may continue to serve effectively where they are called.

RACM Program Includes:

• Understanding Restricted Access Crisis Management
• Risk Assessment in Restricted Access Areas
• Risk Mitigation & Congruency in Contingency Planning
• Fundamentals of Crisis Mgmt. in Restricted Access
• Platform-Focused Crisis Management Teams
• Identity and Engaging Third Parties for Emergency Support
• Crisis Scenario/Tabletop Exercise