Our programs acknowledge the differences in how women and men grow up which influence our experiences, fears, and feelings toward violence and self-defense. Self-defense strategies are developed for the types of violence women most commonly face. We've developed our programs from our experience teaching women self-defense in the Olympia area since 1979. In classes, we emphasize every woman's right to choose whatever actions she finds necessary and appropriate in her situations. We try to expose women to a wide variety of options from which she can choose.
Options range from prevention and diverting situations to methods for escaping.
Within these include skills in confidence building, trusting intuition, body language, verbal assertiveness, safety planning, methods of deception, and physical fighting. Since most women do not grow up being physically aggressive, fighting is not a viable option for us until we learn some fighting skills. Open to women of all physical skill levels and.d abilities. Usually focuses on physical skills, can include teacher training, various degrees of martial art training, and general fitness building. Sliding scale based on income is offered to make self-defense skills available to more women.