The Conflict Reduction Course (Level 1)

Most people are nice people, most of the time. But what happens when they aren’t? Everyone has the capacity to resort to confrontation, and even physical violence, when they feel pushed to it. For some people that capacity is reached sooner than others. 

Maybe you or your team work with people like that?
The Useful Self Defence Company has a solution for this. Introducing: 

The Conflict Reduction Course.

The Conflict Reduction Course is a low combatives self-defence course designed to provide tried and tested techniques for reducing conflict and violent assaults at work.

This course covers:

  • The Self-Defence Timeline, so your staff can identify and prevent violence sooner

  • Situational Awareness, teaching you how to identify threats before they happen

  • Violence identification, allowing your staff to make the right decisions under pressure

  • De-escalation and Boundary Setting, transferable skills that set clear parameters of acceptable behaviour

  • Body language, voice work, and posture, to warn aggressive people away from violence

  • Anti-grab training, framing, use of force and legal principles, space and distance management, and much, much more…

Your staff have the right to be safe at work. Get in touch here for more information or to book onto a course.

The Confident Worker Course (Level 1)

Everyone has the right to defend themselves.  Everyone has the right to be empowered. Everyone has the right to feel safe, at home, at work or in public; but not everybody does. Not everyone faces violence on a daily basis, but that doesn’t stop the fear of violence remaining high. Luckily, there’s the Confident Worker Course.

The Confident Worker Course is designed with your staff in mind to help them with the three things
The Useful Self Defence Company believes in: 

Knowledge, Confidence and Empowerment. 

This course covers:

Dominance, submissive and assertive behaviours,
so you can see when someone is trying to get one over on you

Identifying conflict triggers and warning signs,
to allow preventative measures and early intervention

Assertiveness training, so you know how to show strength
without antagonising others

Boundary setting, so you can identify behaviours that are and aren’t appropriate,
and enforce what’s important to you

De-escalation tactics, for calming down situations
before they escalate to conflict

Tactical breathing techniques, for staying calm under pressure

and much, much more…

Your staff have the right to feel confident and empowered. 
Get in touch here for more information or to book onto a course.

Other Courses

Do you have something else in mind? Let us know if there’s a course you’d like us to run.
If we’re able to provide “bespoke”, we’re happy to help. 
Watch this space for our “management and leadership course” and our upcoming level 2 courses
(currently in development - feel free to ask about being the first to try the prototypes!)

Frequently Asked Questions:

Who are these courses for?
If you work with other people, we have a course for you! Check out our Conflict Reduction Course for frontline workers, or our Confident Workers Course for building confidence when dealing with difficult people.
We know that our customers might not be routinely training in martial arts or combative self-defence. That’s no problem for us- we’d much rather meet you where you’re at and give you skills that are relevant to your role, in your work, with your policies and procedures.

What can we expect on a course?
Courses are a mixture of theory and practical exercises, with some self-reflection added in. In most of our level 1 courses we try to avoid role play where possible. It is most important that you are comfortable with the exercises that you’re doing, and participants are free to sit out as required.

Are the courses physical? Are they violent?
They’re not violent, but we do go into detail about violence and violent behaviour. Some of the exercises are physical, but the aim of the course is to reduce the chances for situations at work escalating to violence.

Check out more FAQs here, or Get in touch for more information or to book onto a course.