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What is Self-Defense for Solo Travelers?
Learn how self-defense can help empower solo travelers to explore the world with autonomy, agency, and confidence.

Nicole Snell
Jan 14


What is Self-Defense for Personal Trainers?
What is empowerment focused self-defense for Personal Trainers? First, self-defense is about more than physical skills! Whether you're the trainer or the client, Personal Training relationships rely on trust, respect, consent, and communication. Personal Trainers care for and curate safe workout spaces for their clients. Safety for both the trainer and the client are essential which means understanding each other's boundaries and feeling confident in communicating them. Self-

Nicole Snell
Jan 9


What is Self-Defense for Solo Hikers?
Learn how self-defense can help empower solo hikers to get outside with autonomy, agency, and confidence to enjoy nature without limits.

Nicole Snell
Jan 7


What is Self-Defense for Moms?
What is empowerment focused self-defense for Moms? No matter what stage of motherhood you're in, keeping yourself, your children, and your loved ones safe will always be priority. It's not about fear—it's about freedom, strength, autonomy, and showing up powerfully for yourself and your kids. Moms shouldn't have to rely on someone else always being able (and knowledgeable enough) to step in protect them or their children. Moms can harness their power and learn how to be their

Nicole Snell
Jan 3


What is Self-Defense for Healthcare Providers & Nurses?
What is empowerment focused self-defense for Healthcare Providers and Nurses? Nurses and healthcare providers are critical for effective and compassionate patient care and healing. The important work that they do should always be supported and amplified by a safe workplace which includes being given the skills to navigate high stress, uncomfortable, and potentially threatening situations with patients, patient's family, and other staff members. Not to mention having the toolb

Nicole Snell
Jan 2


What is Self-Defense for Corporate Teams?
What is empowerment focused self-defense for Corporate Teams? Team building always includes your teams' safety and that means that more than physical skills are necessary! Every corporate team can benefit from conflict de-escalation training, bystander intervention techniques, boundaries education, and learning self-defense strategies to build confidence for handling challenging situations and to prevent workplace violence/harassment. Equip your staff with real-world safety a

Nicole Snell
Dec 23, 2025


Self-Defense for High School Students
What is empowerment-focused self-defense for High School students? Curating age-appropriate content that covers how teens can recognize red flags, speak up for themselves, and navigate social situations with greater confidence and self-assurance can save a life. Tweens and teens benefit from learning how to manage their safety with parents, family, friends, and other adults in their lives. Self-defense education is a set of basic life skills that can help youth develop self-e

Nicole Snell
Dec 20, 2025


What is Self-Defense for College Students?
What is empowerment-focused self-defense for College Students? First of all, self-defense and violence prevention is about more than physical skills! Heading to college often means moving to a new city, state, or country. That can be intimidating and scary! It means leaving behind friends from high school and learning to make new ones. It means having an entirely new level of freedom and independence while trying to navigate your own boundaries and those of others. It means l

Nicole Snell
Dec 18, 2025


What does self-defense mean? How Military and DoD Communities benefit from empowerment-focused self-defense
Lately I've been doing a lot of thinking about what self-defense means for different people. Empowerment focused self-defense is about more than physical skills and because of that, it's application is highly versatile. Its benefits far exceed the primary goal of prevention, including confidence building, anxiety reduction, and a decrease in PTSD symptoms. Self-defense can be used to educate and empower many different industries, groups, and organizations with life skills tha

Nicole Snell
Dec 15, 2025
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