Violence prevention and de-escalation training for workplaces, schools and public-facing teams. We teach people to notice danger early, set boundaries, de-escalate conflict and activate bystanders. Physical defense only as a last resort.
For decades, self-defense was built for one person: the strong guy who can fight back. Everyone else was quietly left out. Women, children, seniors, people with a disability, anyone outside the mold. As if they had less right to be safe.
We don't accept that. Everyone has the right to defend themselves against violence, and you don't need physical strength to do it. Because violence doesn't start with a punch. It starts long before, at the moment someone decides they can get away with a little.
And contrary to what most people picture, the danger usually isn't a stranger in an alley. Around 80% of attacks are committed by someone the victim already knows. That's exactly where old-school self-defense looks the wrong way.
So we start where it actually begins. We teach the information, tactics and strategies that stop a situation before it ever turns physical, including the freeze response that traditional courses ignore. Physical defense matters too, and we teach it. But it comes last, not first, and only the simple tools anyone can learn in a single lesson. Nothing complicated. Nothing you need to be an athlete to use.
Most self-defense rests on one founder's fighting style or decades of gym tradition. Ours is a prevention-based self-defense method that rests on evidence: criminology, forensic psychology, and the study of how violence actually works. Its dynamics, and the way offenders think and choose. We build on research and data, not assumptions.
How violence really begins, escalates, and where it can be stopped. Most of it is over before a hand is ever raised. Physical defense is taught only as a last resort.
Reading the early signals, setting boundaries and de-escalating conflict, without guilt and without apology. Done early, it defuses up to 90% of verbal conflicts.
No pressure, no humiliation, nothing forced on anyone. We build a space where everyone moves at their own speed. And that's exactly why it works.
Any age, any fitness level, any body. More than 30,000 graduates prove safety was never about being the strongest person in the room.
He brings the data: how violence forms, how it spreads, and the exact stages where it can be stopped. The method's backbone is research, not anecdote. Pavel leads our international work and delivers talks and trainings in English.
A survivor of violence herself, she brings what no textbook can: the lived reality of how it feels, and how you come back from it. She gives the method its voice.
Every format — even a single talk — does three things: delivers the data, breaks the myths, and sends people home with concrete tools they can use the same day.
Delivered in English across Europe by co-founder Pavel Houdek.
A sharp, story-driven keynote for conferences and company events across Europe. Your audience leaves seeing safety differently, and knowing what to actually do.
A hands-on corporate self-defense workshop for your team or group. From a two-hour intro to a full-day deep dive. People walk out able to read a situation and act.
For organizations that want our self-defense method in-house, for good. We train your people to teach it, so the capability stays with you long after we leave.
Teams, leadership and HR programs. Harassment response, boundary-setting and respect at work.
Nurses, social workers and frontline staff who face aggression and need to de-escalate it safely.
Schools and universities. Practical safety and prevention for students and staff alike.
Keynotes and talks that shift how an audience thinks about safety, and what they do next.
We train dozens of leading Czech and international companies and institutions. Among them Škoda Auto, LEGO, BCG, Prague City Hall and Prague Public Transit.
Its highest award, for contribution to societal safety.
Project of the Year.
2nd place for social innovation.
Readers' Choice award.
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