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As threat management professionals we have built our livelihood, education, and careers in protection through military, law enforcement, criminal justice, and psychology to address prevention, management, and advocacy. We intimately understand that violence prevention and response is more than just learning a physical applications. Preventative measures, threat identification, post incident management, and trauma healing all play consequential roles in safety. Pop culture and combat sports can only offer so much guidance.
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The Shaan Saar blog explores topics related to our comprehensive, trademarked systems of Evidence Based Self Defense™ and Trauma Informed Self Defense™. Safety, security, criminal law / psychology, mental health, and physical well-being intesect in relevant and though provoking ways.
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Healing and Feeling Safe After Trauma: Trauma Informed Self Defense™ At Shaan Saar Krav Maga Orlando
The significance of creating a strong support system to recover, heal, and regain a sense of safety after experiencing trauma cannot be overstated. This is particularly vital for individuals who have been subjected to psychological abuse, such as being married to a narcissist. Empathy, understanding, and reassurance from a support network can be instrumental in helping survivors rebuild their sense of self-worth and establish a sense of safety (Herman, 1992). Additionally, trauma-informed self-defense classes, like those offered at Shaan Saar Krav Maga Orlando, serve as a powerful tool, empowering women by improving their physical strength and boosting their confidence (Hollander, 2014).
Why women's self defense classes?
Why women's self defense classes? The social emotional significance behind exclusively women's self defense education.
Women's self-defense classes serve a crucial purpose in empowering women and equipping them with specific skills and concepts tailored to their unique strengths and vulnerabilities.
Research has highlighted numerous psychological benefits associated with women learning and growing together in exclusively women's only spaces and it is our contention that these spaces extend to such vulnerable learning places as Krav Maga, No Gi JuJitsu, and basic physical self defense concepts in general.
Exploring the Best Martial Arts for Stress Inoculation Training
Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) has become a popular catch phrase in the martial arts and self defense industries. However, it is important to note that martial arts and self defense instructors are not frequently licensed or trained in psychology and therefore their practice and understanding of of stress inoculation training can trigger post traumatic stress, acute (combat) stress, or not sufficiently implemented to create a desired effect.
What is trauma informed self defense™ ?
Being mindful of physical and social emotional safety
The catch phrase trauma informed has become widely popularized and just because someone has a therapist or social worker attending a self defense event does not make the program trauma informed.
Oversight is crucial but providing a comprehensive, evidence-based methodology and protocols for managing emotional safety of those individuals working through a healing journey is deeper than that.
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