Post Workshop Resources
Everything from your Arise workshop is right here — technique videos and key takeaways to keep learning fresh, next steps for whenever you're ready for them, and resources to learn more.
Learning self-defense doesn't stop when the session ends. This page is your reference point. Come back to it the day after, a week later, or whenever you want a refresher. The techniques you practiced today work because you repeat them — so use this.
Your Workshop Recap
Your workshop covered a lot of ground in a short time. Here are three key points from the session.
Self-defense starts long before anything physical.
93% of communication happens through body language and tone of voice. That's not a fun fact — it's the reason your workshop opened the way it did. Awareness, stance, and voice aren't lead-up to the "real" content. They are the real content. Research shows 75% of assaults are prevented before any physical contact is made.
Your nervous system needed this as much as your body did.
The A–Z challenge, the peg game, the voice drill — none of those were just warm-ups. They were training your brain to have options when your body is already in stress response. Scripts exist because freeze is real. Practiced language and movement patterns are what's available to you when conscious thought isn't.
The physical techniques are a last resort.
When you use them, you mean it. Push base, pull base, and the wrist releases all rely on mechanical advantage, not strength — which is the point. And the sequence always ends the same way: create distance, get out, tell someone. The goal was never to win. It was always to get free and get safe.
Technique Video Library
Each video below is a short demonstration of what we covered in your session. Watch them in order for a full review, or jump to the specific technique you want to revisit. No equipment needed — you can practice most of these anywhere.
Ready Stance | Push and Pull Base (45 secs)
Ready stance is your starting position when something feels off: weight distributed, open hands, two arm's length of distance. It signals awareness and preparation without escalating the situation.
Push base and pull base are how you stay rooted when someone makes physical contact. Before any release technique works, your foundation has to hold.
Practice these on their own before moving on to the wrist releases — everything else builds from here.
Use Your Voice
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Standard Wrist Releases
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Self-defense doesn't happen in a vacuum. Here are a few things worth having in your back pocket.
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The Arise framework
Think. Awareness is your first line of defense. Most unsafe situations give you signals before they escalate — learning to read them is a skill.
Yell. Your voice is a tool. Using it assertively — to set a boundary, to draw attention, to interrupt an aggressor's plan — changes the outcome more often than people expect.
Run. Creating distance is almost always the right move when it's available. We practice this because it needs to feel like an option, not a failure.
Fight. Physical techniques are a last resort — and that's why they work. When you use them, you mean it.
Tell. Reporting, reaching out, and processing what happened matters. You don't have to carry anything alone.
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The goal is never to "win" a fight. The goal is to get safe.
You don't have to be perfect. You have to be hard enough to stop.
Your instincts are valid. If something feels wrong, it is.
Adrenaline is normal. Practicing under stress is how you prepare for it.
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Fight and flight get all the attention — but freeze and fawn are just as common, and just as real. If your body has ever gone still when you felt threatened, or if you've found yourself being overly agreeable in an uncomfortable situation, that's not weakness. That's a nervous system doing its job. The techniques we practice are designed to give you options even when your body's default is to freeze.
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A PDF covering situational awareness, boundary-setting language, digital safety basics, and what to do after an unsafe incident.
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