The Safety Team Presents: Women's Empowerment Self Defense Workshop , Level 1 & Level 2
The Safety Team is a 501(c)3 non profit organization.The Safety Team's Women's Empowerment Self-Defense Workshops teaches simple, powerful, and effective personal protection strategies that are easy to understand and remember. Participants learn how to recognize predatory behavior before it becomes a threat, diffuse it verbally, if possible, and to apply effective physical self defense techniques, if necessary. Taught for women by women. All fitness levels welcome! No prior experience required! Open to women and girls 12 and up (12 -14 year olds need to be accompanied by their mother or female legal guardian). All classes are LGBTQ friendly.
Level 1 is a prerequisite for Level 2.

Workshop Descriptions
Level I Workshop: The 2.5-Hour Introductory Women's Empowerment Self-Defense Program
This beginner workshop utilizes both large and small group instruction. By adhering to a 5:1 student-to-instructor ratio, The Safety Team's trauma-informed trainings focus on boundary setting, affirmative consent, and relevant sexual assault information, as well as the mental and physical skills of Empowerment Self-Defense. The overarching goal of these large-group sessions is to help women discover their collective voice, address victim-blaming by redirecting the responsibility for all assaults on to the perpetrators, improve women's sense of power and control, and, as a result, reduce the likelihood of sexual assault and violence.
Level II Workshop: The 2.5-Hour Intermediate Women's Empowerment Self-Defense Program
This intermediate workshop takes Level I another step further, allowing for a brief review of knowledge, the practice of acquired strikes, and instruction of additional basic self-defense techniques that deal with a variety of common situations and potential attacks. The focus is on "hands-on" verbal and physical self-defense skills, techniques, and strategies, which are presented to the group as a whole, but practiced in small groups of no more than four participants for each instructor. This format facilitates the learning of physical skills and allows for women to connect with one another. Throughout this class, important concepts are reinforced (affirmative consent, boundary setting, each person's right to be safe).

To Register go to https://shelburnevt.org/181/Adult-Programs
Women's Empowerment Self Defense Workshop
Level 1 :
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 6:00 PM-8:30 PM
Location: Shelburne Town Center Gym and Activity Room 5420 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne VT
Fee:$37 Shelburne residents/$47 nonresidents

Level 2 :
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Location: Shelburne Town Center Gym and Activity Room 5420 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne VT
Fee:$37 Shelburne residents/$47 nonresidents

Oct 5, 2024, 10 to 11 AM

Oct 5, 2024, 10 to 10:45 AM

Oct 6, 2024, 9:30 AM to 3 PM