LGBTQ FRIENDLY & SAFE TRAINING
Members of the LGBQT Community face a disproportionate increased risk of violence and sexual assault due to discrimination & hate. Defense Education believes that all individuals deserve the fundamental right to live life without constant fear.
SAFETY ISN'T GENDER BINARY
SCENARIOS FOR INCREASED RISK
Either through Expression, Identity, or Orientation risks and discrimination are abundant even from within the LGBQT community itself.
TRANSITION & ACCEPTANCE
Maintaining a sense of self value, and confidence can be brutal yet is critical to making choices that help keep us safe from unkind or threatening actions.
Learn Skills that Strengthen Values & Identity.
NEW SOCIAL CIRCLES
Unfortunately to openly express and identify one’s self can mean new social circles, and new risks when people currently in our life don’t accept us.
Developing Safe Trust & Healthy Boundaries.
NON-TRADITIONAL DATING
As if dating isn’t hard enough for cis-gender individuals with heterosexual preferences, LGBQT members face unique challenges finding love.
Risk Mitigation & Identifying Red Flags.
DIFFERENT THAN MARTIAL ARTS CLASSES
No belts or uniforms, this is self defense training that is modified specifically to her own physical capability vs. a one size fits all martial style.
Private Training
Always individual, couple, or family class sizes.
Being YOU Is NOT A Weakness
Being you should never be a barrier to safety.
Scheduled Around You
You pick the time you want to train!
HELPING UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES
Our goal is to provide a life-changing service that is openly accepting and welcoming to those vulnerable to discrimination and violence. Unfortunately, there several barriers to access healthcare, housing, mental health, etc. Safety and security cannot be allowed to be another barrier for gender and sexual minorities.
– 44% of lesbians and 66% bisexual women experience rape, violence, or stalking by an intimate partner.
– 26% of gay men and 37% of bisexual men experience rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner.
“The discrimination they face surrounding those identities – often make them hesitant to seek help from police, hospitals, and other resources.”
EQUAL RIGHTS ARE CRITICAL & NECESSARY FOR EVERYONE!
MEET THE INSTRUCTOR:
Cody has taught over 1600 students life-saving skills, has helped a neighbor escape her abusive relationship, worked with and learned from actual victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse since 2018. His approach to training is both empathetic and safety oriented. He ensures students are provided a safe environment for women to comfortably learn how to be their own best method for personal safety.
RESPECT, SENSITIVITY, AND CARE
Because discrimination exists for those who have an alternative gender identity, sexuality, expression, and even physical features than the mainstream binary classifications broadly understood, extra care is taken to understand each individual’s unique safety challenges and fears.
Defense Education understands that students may struggle with dysphoria, might be out or closeted, and have a history of trauma, which is why the individual, couple, and family unit approach to our training is so beneficial for individuals with diverse genders and sexualities, their partners, and their family.
Our training creates a safe environment for difficult conversations to occur comfortably, without fear of judgment or discrimination from others.
SAFETY FOR EVERYONE UNDER THE LGBTQ UMBRELLA
Regardless of your pronoun, designation, or where you exist on the spectrum, Defense Education supports the rights and equality of everyone to love, share, and self-identify safely, without fear and anxiety.
You are welcomed and invited to learn the skills necessary to help protect yourself and those you care about from hate, sexual violence, murder, discrimination, harassment, etc. Know that Defense Education will equip you with skills that help build your confidence and self-value to fortify yourself against the aggressive ignorance of others.
TRAINING THAT EMPOWERS LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS
Your identity, sexuality, expression, and physical diversity deserves to be accepted and respected. You should feel safe to openly communicate your pronoun without fear of retaliation, violence, hatred, and assault. This training helps give you the physical capability and knowledge to do that with reduced risk.
1. Risk Mitigation – The ability to assess potentially dangerous situations, increased awareness of threats, and how to identify red flags.
2. Healthy Boundaries – How to set physical and emotional boundaries, and how to de-escalate when necessary.
3. Use of Force – Effective methods for physically deterring threat.
Teaching skills so students can identify opportunities outside of the trained scenario. No situation goes exactly to scenario, no single attack is the same, however, there are often commonalities. Options that provide the capability to improve the outcome of the situation.
Our training helps make it safer for you to openly be who you are with less risk.
1. Risk Mitigation – The ability to assess potentially dangerous situations, increased awareness of threats, and how to identify red flags.
2. Healthy Boundaries – How to set physical and emotional boundaries, and how to de-escalate when necessary.
3. Use of Force – Effective methods for physically deterring threat.
Teaching skills students how to identify opportunities outside of the trained scenario.
LGBTQ SELF DEFENSE
Defense Education had its first clients from the LGBTQ community in 2019, and recognizes the increased vulnerability that exists due to discrimination.
It is our belief that all individuals deserve the basic fundamental right to live life without fear of sexual assault, hate crimes, or violence. Defense Education also understands that the training needs are as diverse as the LGBTQ community, and there is no one size fits all training program for everyone.
This is why each training program is custom-tailored for each student.