Thousand Waves – Downstairs
Classes
Instructor Meeting
ESD Essentials: Examining the Framework and Core Components of Empowerment Self-Defense
NWMAF is a leader in Empowerment Self-Defense, promoting ESD as a primary violence prevention strategy and offering professional development and certification to ESD instructors. What…
Building Verbal Skills for Self-Defense and Self-Advocacy that are Applicable in Daily Life
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,…
Fight if You Must: the Fourth Finger of Empowerment Self-Defense
If someone is hurting us, and our attempts to stop the violence before it gets physical have failed, we have a right to fight back.…
Applying ESD Tactics to ICE Resistance: Know your Rights, De-escalate, Resist Intimidation
As ICE and federal law enforcement agencies invade our communities, Know Your Rights trainings proliferate. Having the facts about judicial warrants, constitutional rights, and private…
Confronting the Criminalization of Women and other Marginalized People who Defend Themselves
Survivors who defend themselves are often criminalized rather than supported. How did this come to be? How does the law perpetuate the criminalization of survivors?…
Becoming an NWMAF Empowerment Self-Defense (ESD) Certified Instructor
NWMAF-certified instructors Are skilled in building awareness, verbal and physical self-defense skills and tools for healing and growth Are knowledgeable about violence against women, LGBTQIA+…
Contemplative Self-defense as a Way to Maintain and Regain Our Relational Power
This class will offer an invitation to explore a new definition of self-defense as an inner stance in life – a stance that is both…
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