The training is not highly intensive. The army, for example, does a 12-week recruit training course, and the BattleSMART program is delivered to them in two modules. The first module is on the Thursday of the first week. They arrive on the Tuesday at the army recruit training centre, and then on the Thursday they receive the first module of the BattleSMART training. It's about two hours and it's cognitive behavioural training.
It's a PowerPoint presentation, but it's very interactive with the recruits. I've watched it in action a few times. They seem to engage with it very well, but it does depend a lot on the nature of the presenter. If you have someone who is quite experienced and is very confident in teaching cognitive behaviour therapy to large groups of people, then the recruits engage a lot better than with someone who is not as experienced.
That's for two hours on the Thursday. Then they get a booster session on the following Monday, once they've had the chance to experience a few things about what goes on in life in recruit training. At the booster session they get examples of things to come back and talk about in the larger group when they've actually been able to apply the principles they've been taught in BattleSMART.