ABOUT THIS CLASS
Research shows that women who successfully defended themselves quickly recognized threatening situations and enforced their boundaries, if necessary by physical means. In this six-week course you will learn to recognize assailant ploys and manipulations and how to thwart them. Practice releases from common grabs and decisive strikes to vital targets. Use your voice and body language with impact. Recognize the signs that will let you defuse, de-escalate or evade before a physical assault ever happens. Assess your risks, and plan around them. Understand the connections between awareness, threats, and our media environment. The six sessions give you time between classes to practice your moves and become more comfortable with them.
This is a progressive skill-building course. You will learn the most basic elements early on, and practice them in later drills. The first sessions will focus more on physical skills: strikes to vulnerable targets, releases from grabs, body language, and using your voice. Later sessions will put your new skills in various contexts, look more at setting boundaries, and different verbal strategies to control uncomfortable situations. Finally, you will learn to recognize domestic violence, and how to get help if you (or someone you know) are in an abusive relationship.
There will be review in each class. There is also some extra enrichment activities (some call it “homework”). What you get out of your time in class will be greatly enhanced by just a small amount of time spent practicing between classes.
Come prepared to challenge yourself – emPOWERment doesn’t get more fun!
Class Schedule
Phinney Neighborhood Center:
- Six Tuesday evenings, Jan 21 – Feb 25, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
- Location: 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle WA 98103, Brick Bldg Room 35
- Cost: $199
- CANCELLED
Seattle Central College:
- Six Monday evenings, Jan 27 – March 9, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
- Location: 1701 Broadway, Edison Bldg, Room 1139B
- Cost: $189
- Register online
Bellevue College:
- Five Saturday afternoons, Feb 29 – March 28, 1:00 – 3:30 pm
- Location: Bellevue College North Campus, 14673 NE 29th Place, Bellevue WA 98007
- Cost: $199
- Register online
Phinney Neighborhood Center:
- Six Tuesday evenings, March 24 – April 28, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
- Location: 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle WA 98103, Brick Bldg Room 35
- Cost: $199
- Register online
Phinney Neighborhood Center:
- Six Tuesday evenings, May 26 – June 30, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
- Location: 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle WA 98103, Brick Bldg Room 35
- Cost: $199
- Register online
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