Building strength and security: Tailored self-defense programs

  • My Introductory Workshops provide a practical foundation in self-defense, focusing on essential skills such as maintaining distance, situational awareness, and breaking free from common holds. These short sessions are designed to give participants the tools to feel more confident and secure in everyday situations.

  • My Comprehensive Self-Defense Programs offer a deeper dive into self-protection skills, combining progressive training in martial arts like Jiu-Jitsu with mental preparedness and physical conditioning. Participants build resilience over time, mastering techniques and strategies to handle a variety of real-life scenarios with confidence and decisiveness.

  • I offer Customized Workshops tailored to meet the specific needs of diverse groups, such as women, youth, corporate teams, or humanitarian workers. These sessions are designed with the unique challenges of each group in mind, ensuring participants gain the practical skills and empowerment needed to navigate their specific environments safely and effectively.

  • Most hostile environment training courses typically ignore the self defense element or discourage it but there are times in all our lives, especially for those who work in dangerous areas, where violence comes to us and we must know how to respond and protect ourselves, colleagues, loved ones. Members of the humanitarian and media community, as well as people in the private sector need to be trained in situational awareness, when and to respond to a physical attack, how to deal with checkpoints, how to avoid being taken to the ground, cornered or detained, how to get up from the ground and escape.

    Courses taught by professionals with personal experience dealing with wars, injury from explosions, detention, kidnapping. In addition, coursework can include a session expressing, sharing and dealing with trauma from violence and attacks including criminal, terrorist and sexual assault. Instructors bring personal experience not just a theoretical or academic approach to prevent psychological and physical trauma and to cope with it.

    Bespoke training can also include firearms familiarization.

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