Women's Safety Awareness Training

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Worldwide, women are disproportionately affected by violence through abuse, harassment, and assault. The Women's Safety Awareness training will provide a clear picture of risks, tips to lessen the probability of an incident, and advice on how to respond to a variety of threats women face in everyday situations. This powerful program was designed for everyone, no matter their gender. Throughout the course, we provide tips and techniques to help women stay safe at home, work, and in public spaces. The course will also explain the risks women face in their communities, how to advocate for women's safety, and strategies to help women be confident, aware, and prepared so they can live fearlessly.

In this course you will learn...

Lesson 1: Welcome
- How to navigate the course
- What to expect
Lesson 2: Why Women's Safety?
- Our role in women's safety
- Who is at risk?
- Why advocate for women's safety?
Lesson 3: A Safe Mindset
- Cultivating a safe mindset
- Your intuition
- A hard vs. a soft target
- Projecting confidence
Lesson 4: Situational awareness
- What is situational awareness, and why it's important?
- The power of our intuition
- The four pillars of observable human behavior
- Assessing threatening individuals and situations
- When to take action
- Application, using situational awareness in everyday situations
- Overcoming doubt
Lesson 5: Personal Safety Principles
- Prepare-deter-detect-delay and defend
- How and when to use personal safety principles
- Creating a personal safety plan
- Personal safety for walking/jogging
- Personal safety tips for parking lots and parking garages.
- Safety at home
- Personal safety alarms
- When you are with your children
- Personal safety resources for children
Lesson 6: Travel Security
- Is travel less safe for women?
- The global state of women's safety
- Reducing risks during travel
- Safe packing list
- Booking flights, hotels and using ground transport
- Applying safe travel principles
- What to do if something happens during travel
Lesson 7: Harassment and sexual harassment
- Defining and understanding harassment and sexual harassment
- Harassing behaviors
- How to tell if something is serious
- Reporting harassment
- Why speaking up is hard
- Dealing with harassment
Lesson 8: Domestic Abuse
- Defining domestic abuse
- Characteristics of domestic abuse
- The complexities
- Help for those experiencing domestic abuse
- How to help
Lesson 9: Sexual Assault Prevention and Response
- What's sexual assault?
- How to prevent sexual assault
- The role of consent
- Actions and options In the event of sexual assault
- Sexual assault and mental well-being
- Support for survivors of sexual assault
Lesson 10: Verbal self-defense
- Assertiveness
- Directive language
- Video tutorial, verbal self-defense in action
- Yelling and calling for help
- If an attacker is armed
Lesson 11: Physical Self-Defense
- Actions in case of physical assault
- Your number one goal
- Video tutorials (shoulder grab/wrist grab, front grab, grab from behind, choking)
- Training against instincts
- If an attacker is armed
- Resources to learn more
Lesson 12: Summary
- Key takeaways
- Final checklist
Lesson 13: Tools and Resources
- Critical resources and continued learning
- Supplemental resources:
  
  Safe packing list for travel
  
  Residential security checklist

Meredith Moore

Chief Executive Officer, Greylake Training Solutions

Meredith started Greylake Training Solutions to empower people to feel more confident in their safety and help organizations and businesses meet their commitment to keeping a global workforce prepared to operate in an insecure world. Her approach to training is inspired by her expertise and passions for the science of learning, psychology, and international affairs. For 18 years, Meredith has been an education and development professional. Highlights from her career include leading the development of security training programs at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund; serving as an advisor to the United Nations on security training initiatives; developing training programs for conflict-affected students in Nepal and serving as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in China. She has had the privilege of training thousands of people from every corner of the globe. Her love for creating innovative and valuable learning experiences alongside her dedication to promoting confidence, so people feel safe is reflected in both the mission of Greylake Training Solutions and Global Guardian Academy.