Women's Self Protection Training Retreat

Do you worry about being able to defend yourself and your loved ones?  How much different would your world be if you had been taught how to trust your instincts, identify and avoid threats, de-escalate, assert boundaries, and physically defend yourself?  You are worth defending.  The women and girls you know and love are worth defending.  Women do not ask for, cause, invite, or deserve to be assaulted. Self Protection training “...can increase your options and help you prepare responses to slow down, de-escalate, or interrupt an attack.  Like any tool, the more you know about it, the more informed you are, the better able you are to make a decision and to use it.”  - National Coalition Against Sexual Assault

The Women’s Training Institute at Argus and A+R Tactics, WTI, is woman-led and teaches real world self protection that is evidence-based and trauma informed.  This two day training retreat will answer the questions you have about your personal safety, instill confidence, teach you effective physical skills, and revolutionize your decision making abilities and mindset.  The physical skills WTI teaches are based on simple principles and instinctive movements.  WTI’s reality based system is designed to teach tested self protection in an easy to digest and apply manner.  We will also train the emotional, and intellectual aspects of self protection, including your ability to recognize and manage fear.  When violence is eminent, your ability to defend yourself is greatly affected by your ability to control your emotions.  WTI teaches you to function during the stress and psychological trauma of a violent encounter.  Our training progression is designed to develop mental toughness and emotional resolve and help you gain power over your own fight or flight response.  WTI will not tell you what you should or shouldn’t do, but help you develop options, techniques and a way of analyzing situations and applying strategies and actions that best suit you.  You will leave it prepared and with a plan for likely situations of harassment, threats, stalking, sexual or violent abuse from strangers, and more often, from someone you know.

We will have expert speakers presenting on women’s health issues and trauma support and resolution, including a female OB/GYN with a focus on Women’s Health, and Licensed Counselor and Author, Paige Ranson.

Training will culminate in real world scenario training in the vehicle, shoot house, and open areas in the facility.  Scenario training allows you to test your skill set, grow your ability to manage your fight or flight responses, implement decision making, and solidify the physical skills you have been training.  We will debrief and share between scenarios for growth as a group and mutual support.  Personal safety is your right.

In addition to the self protection training, you will also train Civilian Trauma Response and receive your Stop the Bleed Certification.  These are skills that can be applied to helping yourself, your family, coworkers, community, etc in times of medical need.

Join us for this one of a kind training weekend.  Open to all skill levels, ages 13 and up.

Women’s Self Protection Training Retreat Focuses:

• Awareness
• Threat mitigation, profiling, & response
• Deescalation & Preemption
• Defense against common strikes, chokes, takedowns and grabs
• Defense against weapons
• Escapes from pins against a barrier and on the ground
• Effective Striking
• Controlling a subject
• Home and travel safety
• Mitigating Fear, Mindset, and Resilience
• Trauma Shedding
• Stop the Bleed Certification and Civilian Trauma Response Training
• Interaction with Law Enforcement, EMS, and Accurate Reporting
• Speakers on Women’s Physical and Emotional Health

Schedule for Friday, November 10:

• Invitation Friday evening to a No Host Dinner with Nicole Thurman, Director of Women’s Training Institute at Argus and A+R Tactics, and the other retreat attendees.

Schedule for Saturday, November 11:

• Breakfast on your own
• 9 am to 10 am - Group Workout and Self Protection Conditioning Training, Optional
• 10 am to 2 pm Training Session (All Women’s Training Inst Members may attend during this session and are invited to upgrade their monthly charge to attend the entire Women’s Self Protection Training Retreat Weekend)
• Lunch provided
• 3 pm to 5 pm Training Session
• Invitation Saturday evening to a No Host Dinner with Nicole Thurman, Director of Women’s Training Institute at Argus and A+R Tactics, and the other retreat attendees.

Schedule for Sunday, November 12:

• Breakfast on your own
• 9 am to 10 am - Group Workout and Self Protection Conditioning Training, Optional
• 10 am to 2 pm Training Session (All Women’s Training Inst Members may attend during this session and are invited to upgrade their monthly charge to attend the entire Women’s Self Protection Training Retreat Weekend)
• Lunch provided
• 3 pm to 5 pm Training Session
• * We understand that many of you will be traveling back home on Sunday.  Please feel free to exit training at any point you need to to make your flight / drive back home.

What to wear and bring:

• Comfortable clothing - we recommend no tank tops or short shorts, but shirts that are sleeved, and bottoms that extend past the knee as we will be working on the mats, against the rough walls in the shoot house, and various surfaces
• Tennis shoes
• Mat shoes, if you would like, as shoes can’t be worn on the mats
• Water and snacks you’d prefer
• Any blade trainers that you use or would like to work with

Available:

• Discounted lodging $99 rooms at Sonesta Charlotte Executive Park
• Optional pre orders of:
  • Tac pen
  • PDX with Trainer Blade
  • Bleeding Control / Trauma Kit
  • A+R Tactics Gear and Clothing

Cost is $450 per person. Call for group pricing.

Nicole Thurman

Director of Women’s Training Institute at Argus and A+R Tactics

nicole@ar-tactics.com

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