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Verbal De-Escalation

A short video on de-escalation of violent confrontations. A subject that has to be studied to have a bigger toolbox for self defence, only having a physical skillset leaves you with only one way to solve the problem. When you only have a hammer all you see is nails. By having prefight skills not only can you avoid to use force, but increase your chance of not only survival, but the aftermath with the legal problems that may be worse than expected.

Verbal Judo: Diffusing Conflict Through Conversation

Academic-turned-cop and best-selling author George Doc Thompson describes how tactical language allows leaders to achieve their goals. Daniel Ames, the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics, confirms that managing conflict is a critical predictor of leadership success and shows how what works in the streets converges with recent findings in social science. The workshop was part of the Program on Social Intelligences Science Meets Practice series, which pairs hands-on leadership training with breaking insights in psychology research.

Verbal Judo

A big portion of self-defence training should be what happens before you need to use physical force, awareness of dangerous situations, how to avoid them, how to spot the subtle cues before an attack by recognising grooming or verbal escalation rituals, how to destroy an attackers plan by with the right words make him multitask while you are executing your own pre planned and practiced action and be ahead on the OODA loop. This is a subject than many don’t train or even are not aware of its importance. We spend time on this and give our students tools to think about what plan they would choose, how to practice it themselves everyday, find a solution that is congruent with their own moral view.