Workshop: Intro To Self Defence

Our hope is you never actually have to use what we're about to teach you. However may you always have this toolkit of realistic and effective strategies in your back pocket if you do.

​Violence is it's scrappy, chaotic and unexpected. And while hoping for the best is a method, without knoweldge or practice, it's hard to know how you'll react when instinct and adrenaline take over. 

We've teamed up with Exeter Self Defence Academy to bring a 90 minute Introduction To Self Defence Workshop to Topsham Brewery event space.

This is for you if:

• you want to learn the basic principles of self defence in a safe, fun enviroment with other women and non binary people
• you're interested in building simple and transferable skills to self regulate and neutralise a situation
• you've had a bad experience in the past and / or you'd like to feel more confident out and about

We know this is tough topic and that many people will have survived, had near misses with, or supported loved ones through experiences that no-one should have to deal with. And that my friends is why we're not skirting around it - it's why we gather, why we learn what we can in safe environments and why this will be a space to rage, laugh, cry and chat if we need to. There will be time after the session to grab a cuppa and cake with for anyone who wants to hangout and debrief. 

You do not have to have any experience or have a certain level of fitness or confidence attend this class. Wear comfortable clothes. Take breaks as you need. Listen to your body. Do your Version of learning the basics of self defence