Courses
Assault Prevention offers five core courses:
These courses are described in greater detail on accompanying pages.
We provide in-depth classroom and field instruction in a variety of areas regarding violence, and our certified instructors have personal experience and expertise within the areas in which they instruct.
The motivation to attend one of these courses might be a concern for yourself, your family or home, a vacation home, your work environment, or the community in which you live. No matter your individual situation, our goal remains the same: to help you establish a protective perimeter around your daily life.
All of our courses incorporate complex learning theory and physics under-girded by extensive research, and all have a firm legal foundation based on U.S. Supreme Court decisions and state statutes to lessen concerns regarding liability.
If you have any questions about specific courses, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will travel anywhere in the world to present them. You provide the necessary classroom requirements and we will conduct the course.
Need a guest speaker for your conference or special event? All of our courses can be modified and are available for presentation in a public speaking or seminar format, and we speak on a variety of topics related to violence. These are also great perks for company employees.
What people say about our presentations: “I attended a session at the conference entitled ‘Predicting Violence’ facilitated by a professor from one of our fine universities. I also attended your session. Your presentation on violence blew hers out of the water. Your presentation was very pragmatic, interactive, broad-based and very well presented. Your were able to hook your audience, keep them engaged, and I have no doubt that each attendee left with a keener sense of trusting their gut, identifying indicators of violence and having a few responses ready when they encounter violence. You should be proud of your training and the message you are getting out to people. This session was as good as any I have attended over the years. Way to go!”
Private Instruction: We understand a group setting is not every one’s learning preference. Assault Prevention offers private instruction for all course content at $75.00 per hour, and we will travel to your home or office. Please call or email to make arrangements.
Refund & Return Policy: there are no refunds or returns on courses.
A Powerful Testimony from one of our Attendees
Last night while working security at a bar/restaurant, this guy was acting very weird and aggressive for no reason. He approached my friend out of the blue and asked him if he wanted to start something. My friend said, “no”. The guy said “if you are, I’m your guy”. Then he asked, “why are you looking at me”, to which my friend responded politely, “because you are talking to me”. …stuff like that…irrational.
That’s when I approached and simply said, “hey, this is my friend”. Without pausing, he looked up at me and said “ok”. With that, he started walking right at me with purpose while taking off his coat. The look where he wanted to fight and was overly calm about the whole prospect. I asked him what he was doing, he said nothing. I asked him why he took off his coat, he said he didn’t. He was then too close, “striking distance”, so I pushed him back (checked him) and told him to stop walking toward me, which after 3 warnings, he finally did. I got another 2 feet of distance and grabbed my mace and warned him not to come any closer or I’d use the mace. This didn’t bother him in the least. He didnt seem drunk, just…driven and full of purpose…a “death by cop” look and feel.
The funny thing was he did all this right in front of security. Unfortunately, they just stood there despite my verbal requests for back up and that they remove him. FINALLY, one of them came over and asked him to leave which he eventually started to do. Just then it dawned on me, that guy was favoring his left pocket and my brain hadn’t yet processed that info.
So, my training kicked in, I looked and saw the knife. Seems simple, but under “high stress” something that simple may not occur to you until after the whole thing is over sometimes. You’re too busy trying to hold it all together that a detail like that seems insignificant.
As he was leaving and out of hearing range, I informed security that he had a knife and they got all …amped up or whatever. I thought to myself, “welcome to the party guys, where have you been?” I was trying to tell them we have a live one with/out letting the crazy man know I was freaked. When someone that size approaches someone my size with that much confidence he’s either on something, crazy, has a weapon or a lovely combo of the three.
I thought about it all the way home. Thought about the $80 I had made. Thought about my daughter losing me. And after a few hours, fell asleep. It must’ve impacted me more than I thought because my brain needed more relief and that came in the form of a nightmare last night. It totally took me off guard and I literally had seconds to be calm, get physical control of the situation and be safe and still intelligently assess all the bizzare data that I was receiving. None of it made sense except that he was too confident and that he was too close so I dealt with that until I saw the knife. Keep in mind, all the while my adrenaline was coursing through me disabling normal, clear mental functions.
My training got me through that situation. If i had got in his face and been the “tough guy”, asserted my physical presense, he could’ve knifed me, head butted me or hit me before I had the chance to react. Glad I was able to put my training before my ego and deal with the situation properly. I’m a wiser more prepared man because of my training and that situation. Craig Gorman: martial artist, asset & executive protection, and good friend of Assault Prevention
