Security Consultancy & Training

Krav Maga Yashir Boston’s Head Instructor, Gershon Ben Keren, is a criminologist who has been working in the security sector since 1990. In this time, he has provided a wide array of training and consultancy services, concerning security and employee safety, to companies and organizations across Europe and the US. This has included areas such as travel security, de-escalation and conflict resolution (both within an organization as well as with customers and external agents), active shooter solutions and general safety and self-defense etc. He has also helped companies and organizations design hiring and firing policies and procedures that take into account the safety and security of those involved, and mitigate/eliminate any potential threats and risk etc., that may occur as part of the process e.g., when hiring future employees competency in a particular role is often the key factor that is stressed with the risk of bringing in a disruptive and dangerous employee into the company/organization not being considered/taken into account etc. If you are interested in bringing any of our security services into your organization, whether training or consultancy, please use the button below, to contact us regarding your needs.

Self-Protection Consultancy & Training in Boston

Often when managers think about the physical safety of their staff/employees, they think about physical self-defense; having them learn self-defense techniques that they can use to defend themselves. Whilst such training can be useful and has its place, it is often more beneficial and effective to educate them in how to predict, identify and avoid violence in the first place. Sometimes this can be done by recognizing how aggressive and potentially violent situations develop and addressing the entry-way behaviors that are involved early on, so that incidents don’t escalate. Other times knowing how to de-escalate emotionally volatile situations in a way that allows for future interactions to be more productive is the solution that is needed etc. By understanding and identifying the components of aggression and violence early on in an incident many situations can be managed and controlled so that physical violence is avoided. Something which is safer and more productive both for the individuals involved and the organization as a whole.

Whilst most acts of aggression and violence in the workplace, and in general, are the result of bad social interactions e.g., an individual did not “plan” to become aggressive and violence but something in the environment and/or somebody else’s actions and behaviors have left them angry and frustrated, feeling that violence is both justified and the only action available to them etc., there are those who engage in premeditated acts of violence, where they have come to a situation with the goal of acting violently e.g., in 2015, Stephen Pasceri, walked into Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and shot/murdered his mother’s former doctor/surgeon, Michael Davidson, blaming him for his mother’s death. This was a planned and premeditated act of violence, which followed a process. Such acts of violence usually follow certain predictable processes and follow a path of phases and stages. If these can be identified, then it is often possible to predict and identify violent acts and incidents before they occur.

By understanding how risk occurs – the interaction between assets, threats and vulnerabilities – we have the potential to mitigate and manage it. By recognizing how threats exploit vulnerabilities and the processes they use to do this, then it is possible to predict and identify acts of violence before they occur. Such training is often more productive and easier to use/deploy than physical self-defense training, though this also has its place, and is often necessary in order for physical self-defense techniques to work e.g., by recognizing how an aggressive situation may be developing it is possible to put in place steps such as controlling range and distance, bringing the hands up in a non-confrontational manner etc., which will help increase the chances of any physical self-defense techniques that have been taught, being successful.

If you are interested in learning more about the training and consultancy services we offer in Boston and the New England area (either in-person or virtually), please use the form below to contact us regarding your needs/requirements.

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