Our voice is one of our most powerful self-defense tools. We can use it to set boundaries for ourselves, to de-escalate a potentially violent situation, and to intervene to help keep others safe.

In this class we’ll examine and practice a range of verbal empowerment self-defense skills, building from the simple but often hard-to-say “no” to more complex situations that require additional verbal dexterity. Primarily we’ll work through the exercises Thousand Waves’ ESD instructors use in teaching “Yell,” the second finger of the Five Fingers of Self-Defense.

Whether you’re a student wanting to learn and/or strengthen your verbal self-defense skills, or an ESD instructor who wants to see the progression Thousand Waves has created to teach verbal ESD skills, this class offers something for you.

Bring: n/a

Wear: comfortable clothes