Women's Basic

Women only

This comprehensive, 20-hour program covers a wide range of personal safety skills including physical skills, verbal strategies, and awareness and avoidance skills. The program also covers psychological strategies and mental readiness. All skills are practiced in interactive scenarios enabling students to learn to deal with the freeze response and to assess a situation and respond quickly and appropriately while in an adrenalized state. Physical skills are practiced with full-contact and full-force against fully padded instructors trained in recreating common assault scenarios.

Six 3.5-hour sessions over six weeks.
Basics Intensive is an accelerated class meeting three times a week for two weeks.