| Course content: |
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| Overview: |
Awareness |
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Risk
assessment |
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Appropriate behaviours and
attitudes |
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Skills and
strategies |
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| Introduction: |
An overview of the course,
course rules and course aims and objectives. |
| Personal safety overview: |
The what, where, why and how of
personal safety in a variety of situations. |
| Non-physical
skills: |
Non-verbal and verbal
aggression defusion techniques. |
| Physical skills overview: |
When should you act
physically? |
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What is effective physical
action? |
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Legal and moral
issues. |
| Avoidance
defences: |
What is the 'chatting
stance'? |
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Three methods of
avoidance. |
| Blocking
defences: |
The good and the not so good of
blocking. |
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Soft and hard
blocking. |
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Direction of
movement. |
| Active
defences: |
Wrist and clothing
grabs. |
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Escape from a
strangle. |
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Other
defences. |
| Questions and answers: |
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Notes:
A physical and psychological fitness form needs
to be filled in by each participant prior to the training course.
The course is high energy and high impact. The content of
the course is structured so that attendees experience directly the benefits of the strategies
and methods learnt on the course.
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