Streetwise Situational Awareness & Personal Safety Workshop
Workshop Aim – To provide delegates with the knowledge, understanding, and skills to safely and effectively deal with public harassment, build and maintain situational awareness and safety in public places, and recognise, process, and respond to risk, safely and legally.
Target Audience – Individuals who want to feel safer and more confident while commuting,socialising, or travelling.
Students at schools, colleges and universities.
Teens and young adults navigating nightlife, public transport, or unfamiliar areas.
Anyone who’s felt vulnerable or unsure in public spaces, whether walking home, waiting at a station, or dealing with unwanted attention.
Concerned parents or carers wanting practical tools for their children or dependents.
Individuals who’ve experienced harassment and want to reclaim confidence and control.
Workshop Content (Duration 3 hours)
- Understanding public harassment and the bystander effect.
- How to safely help or intervene in harassment situations.
- Offender behaviour and planning.
- Understanding the human response to threat and its impact on decision-making and behaviours.
- Proxemics – the use of space and distance to stay safe.
- Avoiding vulnerability signalling by shifting the dynamic.
- How to read people, situations, and environments, to spot and avoid dangers, or make a safe exit.
- Safe conversation management with aggressors.
Benefits of attending
Delegates will leave with an understanding of the bystander effect and learn how to safely support others who are being publicly harassed via a range of options.
Delegates will leave with an understanding of what situational awareness is and its importance.
They will understand the different phases of situational awareness and of escalating levels of focus.
They will understand the impact factors that can affect their personal safety.
They will be able to recognise the body language indicators that signal danger and their body and brain’s threat response.
Delegates will be better able to control their fight, flight and freeze response and make better and safer decisions as a result.
Delegates will be given practical real world advice on how to avoid getting into conflict and dangerous situations, and leave with options to minimise, mitigate and manage threats.
Delegates will understand the law concerning self-defence; however, this is NOT a physical selfdefence class.
This workshop stems from my passion to stop Violence Against Woman & Girls (VAWG) and although aimed primarily at female only groups, it can be delivered to male, or mixed groups too. It can be run in the evenings, daytime, or weekends, to help maximise attendance.
It is suitable for children 12 and over, and U18s must be accompanied by an adult.
