Personal Safety Awareness

Introduction

The course provides general awareness skills for a wide range of clients wishing to enhance their ability to deal confidently with potentially confrontational or violent situations. Focus is placed on communication skills, diffusion techniques and understanding human behaviour.

Course objectives

• Develop techniques for communicating in stressful situations.
• Understand your own fear and others aggression and anger.
• Apply the law and understand its consequences.
• Create an awareness of personal tactical and preventive skills.
• Practice basic disengagement techniques.
• Weapon awareness

Pre requisites

Anyone who wishes to feel safer, develop an ability to deal with perceived and real danger, gaining confidence in themselves, their abilities and awareness skills.

Course content

• Verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Use of force and the Law.
• Understanding fear, stress.
• Anger and aggression.
• Posture, balance and movement skills.
• Dress sense.
• Assertive behaviour techniques.
• Warning and danger signs.
• Disengagement techniques.
• Ground survival skills.
• Conflict management skills.
• Public place awareness.
• Driving sense.

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