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Personal Safety & Self-Defense Training & Consultancy in Boston
Personal safety is a component of Health and Wellness, in the same way that physical fitness and well-being are. The effects of the fear of crime, especially violent victimization, on an individual’s outlook and attitude to life can be significant; affecting both their personal and professional lives. When we are fearful, but don’t yet understand what danger look likes, we can end up identifying threats where none exist, and discounting and denying harm where they do. This is not a healthy state for us to be in. With most of us receiving our education into adult violence from movies and media, our idea of what violence looks like may be significantly skewed e.g. we may think that the majority of muggings/street robberies involve a weapon such as a knife or gun (64% of muggings in Boston are “Strong-arm” robberies where no weapon is involved – and only 19% of those involve any actual use of force), or that women are most vulnerable walking home on their own late at night – when statistically women are more likely to be assaulted by someone they know, when in a familiar location, such as their home or somebody else’s.
When we understand the facts as they pertain to our locale, we can educate ourselves as to what crime and violence actually looks like, and begin to identify and recognize the processes that criminals use to commit their crimes e.g. how they select their victims/targets, the tactics they use to gain access to them, the locations they choose, etc. For over 25 years, Gershon Ben Keren has been providing this type of training to members of corporations and organizations, equipping them with the skills to identify, predict, prevent and avoid violence. If you would like to bring this type of training to your organization, please use the form at the bottom of this page to make an enquiry concerning your training needs and requirements (you can click here to access the form). If you are unsure about what exactly it is that you are looking for, we will be happy to work with you to provide the appropriate training that your organization requires.
Workplace Health and Safety
As well as providing general self-protection/personal safety and physical self-defense training, we also provide training that is directly applicable to the workplace e.g. if your employees are customer-facing, or interact with people within, or outside of your organization, we can provide training in de-escalation and conflict resolution, etc. For those that travel with their work, we have travel security programs that teach employees how to stay safe while away, whilst keeping company assets – such as data and information – secure. We can also assist your organization in its “hiring and firing” policies, presenting processes that can help you to avoid hiring potentially aggressive and dangerous individuals (in the hiring process, how “safe” a potential employee is often takes a back-seat to whether they are able and competent to do the job), and if you do have to let them go, you will want to have them exit and leave the organization in a way that gives them few reasons to come back and/or exact revenge, etc. Our training services also extend to providing unarmed solutions to active shooter situations. We are sensitive to the fact that companies and organizations in different industries have specific needs, and our training always recognizes this e.g. dealing with an active shooter in a hospital/healthcare setting, is somewhat different to dealing with one in an industrial complex, or office building, etc. Please use the form below – you can access it by clicking here – to contact us concerning your requirements.