Six Steps to Safety
A virtual self-defense workshop
for high school seniors and college-age young women
Led by Lauren Roselle
Founder & President of Esteem
When: August 5th & August 12th | Two Wednesdays 4pm – 5:30pm
Cost: $65
Over 20% of undergraduate females experience sexual assault. Give your daughter the tools she needs to stay safe at college and beyond! We’re excited to partner with Esteem to offer this dynamic and interactive virtual workshop featuring skills for avoidance, deterrence, and resistance of physical and verbal assault.
Designed to empower young women heading to college, the workshop is led by a warm, engaging, experienced female instructor and assisted by a male instructor who will help act out real life scenarios to prepare young women to react appropriately if challenges arise. Your daughter will learn and practice essential self-defense moves – as well as awareness and assertiveness strategies to stay safe. Training includes:
Step 1. Awareness
- Becoming aware of your own strengths
- What perpetrators want in their “ideal” target and what deters them
- The myths and realities surrounding campus assaults
Step 2. Assertiveness
- Body language and voice control
- Finding your “No” and setting clear boundaries
- Interactive verbal role-plays and how to respond to being followed
Step 3. Social Safety
- 5 keys to staying safe at parties and dorm safety
- Recognizing when a situation is going sideways – and what to do next
- Acquaintance rape and date rape prevention strategies
Step 4. Car Safety
- Using Uber and other transportation services safely
- Safety in and around your car
Step 5. Physical Resistance
- Easily mastered self-defense techniques
- Using your strengths against an assailant’s weaknesses
- Front and rear attack responses
Step 6. Being an Ally
- Recognizing when someone else is in trouble
- Coming to the aid of others while maintaining your safety
- Role-modeling assertive communication
Register now or contact Paige Hobey, Director of Community Education and Outreach, at 626-585-8075 ext. 121 or PHobey@IFGD.care to learn more.
