Internationally recognised Home Office approved trainers run Amicus Mentor’s PERSONAL SAFETY AND AWARENESS TRAINING courses. Courses are designed to heighten an individual’s awareness of the potential risks to personal safety in everyday environments. Together with Awareness Training we teach simple and easy to remember reactive techniques based on human behavioural responses and not martial arts. Once mastered the simple techniques become automatic responses in an emergency and will allow individuals to gain the advantage in order to take flight and not fight.

The course involves group discussion and participation, followed by practical demonstrations and practise of reactive techniques based on human behavioural responses, not martial arts. The techniques are very easy to apply and to remember and most importantly are designed to work under extreme pressure.

Objectives

• Explore Individual Perception of Confrontation
• Recognise the different levels of aggression in a person and factors that will effect a situation
• Complete Personal Safety Risk Assessments in different environments
• Understand the Relevant Law & Legislation relating to the Use of Force & Self Defence
• Explore and understand the Psychology of Confrontation
• Recognise the different Components of Communication
• Recognise the Warning & Danger Signs of an Imminent Attack
• Understand and practice a Safe Reactionary Gap

• Breakaway & Self Defence Techniques
• Importance of Verbal Commands
• Safe Distances
• Escape from grabs
• Basic blocking techniques
• Simple distraction strikes
• Generating power into strikes
• Defence against attacks from the rear
• Strangle releases
• Wrist turns
• Edge Weapon Awareness
• Use of Improvised weapons (in relation to justification)
• Body Pinches
• Basic scenarios to practise techniques