Workshop Overview

This program exposes staff to non-violent self-protection and disengaging skills. Moreover, it is designed to enhance safety while preserving the therapeutic relationship between the client and staff member.

Learning Objectives

• Learn to assess and recognize the signs of an imminent assault
• Learn further about the gift of fear known also as survival intuition
• Enhance their awareness of personal strengths and limitations
• Identify supportive and defensive body positioning approaches
• Build and enhance their awareness of body movement, and areas of vulnerability
• Learn to use psychological distraction and evasion skills
• Practice disengaging from strikes, kicks, punches, grabs, chokes, hair pulls and bites
• Learn further about post crisis stress reaction and self-care