Project FemPowerment: It’s about freedom,
not fear
It’s about much more than ninja moves… it’s about personal empowerment – not only when in danger, but always
I founded Project FemPowerment after having trained in martial arts for more than 35 years and having my own martial arts school in Sydney, Australia for 20 years as part of an organisation whose slogan was: The Science of Self Defence. Even though the style itself was effective, it still didn’t work for everyone. Not everyone had the same talent, the will, the confidence, the physical prerequisites, the time or the desire.
But if this was about self defence, was it really about the fighting moves or simply about safety?
Although most people think that self defence is about the physical moves and that is also what I was mainly teaching, I learned over the years that there were are other things that laid a more important and effective foundation to self defence: Why were these situations occurring? How could you recognise them early on? How could you prevent them from happening?
The biggest problem is not the lack of fighting skills, but the lack of understanding of the problem itself. Project FemPowerment was founded to change that.
Step into Your Power!
Making sense of it…
Project FemPowerment is a completely unique way of doing self defence. FemPowerment helps women step back into their inherent power. We help women deal with problems, big or small, dangerous or not and consequently feel safe and free again. Insecurity comes from uncertainty. We teach principles that any woman can apply regardless of the situation, old or young, fit or not.
There is currently no comparable training. Alternatives unfortunately do not offer an immediate solution. To teach men how to be more ‘decent’ is surely necessary, but also a long term, cultural problem. To offer help to victims is also necessary, but only deals with a part of the issue. We teach women never to become victims.
At Project FemPowerment fighting techniques are only a smaller part of a much more holistic program. It’s about learning to trust your intuition (to help you recognise danger early), setting effective boundaries (to de-escalate danger preemptively), building of confidence, determination and a whole new way of thinking. In truth, this is what is needed to deal with any kind of unwanted situation and even to prevent it completely.
Ironically, these are the traits needed to be able to apply fighting techniques in the first place, more so than the techniques themselves, and having those traits makes it less and less likely that those techniques are needed at all.
More so than dealing with danger, it helps women live every aspect of their lives with more control and freedom – be it at home, at work, their social lives or in their communities.
What we teach should be general knowledge… sadly it’s not
Seminars, workshops & coaching for you, schools, universities, companies & authorities
We can teach you more about self defence in an hour than you’ve learned throughout your whole life.
Going deeper, you can solve this problem forever. You will never see self defence or your safety the same way again!
“Think about it: parents teach their kids not to trust strangers, but also to be nice and polite… to strangers. Now we have everybody not knowing who to trust and who not to trust, when to be nice and when not to. We will clear that up!”
We offer keynotes from 15 minutes to workshops over several days to coaching over weeks or months. Our short trainings are informative and engaging, our longer ones life changing.
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