Personal Safety and Self Defense for children, teens and adults.

PARENT CHILD FULL-FORCE WORKSHOP, AGES 6-12*

In this workshop, children and parents learn all of the Everday Safety Skills together, and children also get the opportunity to learn full-force self-defense skills as well. A parent, guardian or other caregiver needs to stay for the entire workshop. Each child enrolled may come with up to 2 adults.In this workshop students learn all of the Everyday Safety Skills (awareness, calm and confidence, moving out of reach, setting boundaries, dealing with bullying, etc) with their parents . For the second half of the class, students learn physical self-defense skills to use as a last resort and the adults support them. Adults will watch and support their children when they are practicing the skills on a padded instructor. Each child enrolled may come with up to 2 adults.

*Note: In response to requests by many families, we are experimenting with a different format that will cover the same skills as our Weekend Family Workshop in a different way. There will be a time for adults to ask questions separately from their children.

Parent-Child Full Force Introductory Workshop – Level One
Children from six to twelve years-old and their adults have the opportunity to learn and practice Everyday Safety Skills together. Children then learn and practice physical self-defense skills Full Force while their adults support them.
Families can choose to take only Level One OR choose to take both Level One and Two.

Parent-Child Full Force Workshop – Level Two
The prerequisite required for registering in this class includes participation in a Parent-Child Introductory Workshop- Level One or participation in a Weekend Family Workshop within two years of the class date. This workshop builds on the personal safety and self-defense skills that have already been introduced in the Introductory Workshop. This program provides an opportunity for students to do individualized boundary-setting role plays with instructors and to learn how to use their full-force self-defense skills in more difficult situations.

Parent-Child Workshop with Kick Pads on Sunday, January 11th from 10:30-1:30pm in Aptos

Special Workshop Opportunity!

Once a year, as part of our international instructor training program, we provide a unique workshop opportunity for children ages 6 to 11 and their adults. Under the leadership of our most senior instructors, people in training practice teaching with “real students” with in-the-moment coaching. The result is that students get excellent training with a great deal of individual opportunity to practice.
 
As one mother explains, “I travel for a couple of hours each way to Santa Cruz almost every year in order bring my family to this program. It’s fun to meet people from so many different places and I have found that my children learn a tremendous amount when they get to see adults learning. They like the idea that they are helping to prepare these adults to teach Kidpower in order to reach a lot more kids. In addition, I have easy access to very experienced people who can answer my questions.”
 
This January, our instructor training program will include people from Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Lebanon, as well as California, Colorado, New York, and Florida.  You can join us on Sunday, January 11th for a three-hour Parent-Child Kidpower Workshop that will include physical self-defense skills taught with kick pads. (Note: This is NOT the full-force program with the head-to-toe padded instructor, that we also provide at other times.)
 
Thanks to community support, we can offer this workshop on a sliding scale fee of $25 to $75 dollars per child, based on ability to pay. As many support adults from each child’s life as possible are encouraged to attend at no extra charge. We have found that the more that families have a common language around personal safety issues, the safer everyone is.

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FamilyPower: A Comprehensive Full-Force "People Safety" Learning Experience for Your Family
Saturday and Sunday, February 21st and 22nd, 9 am. to 1 p.m.

Only offered to the public twice a year - worth traveling for! 
Thank you to Black Pine Circle School in Berkeley for donating space.
 
Take one weekend this winter to build “People Safety” skills with your family, developing tools to make life's adventures safer and more fun.  This comprehensive annual weekend workshop will prepare families to set boundaries, make safety plans, protect themselves from harm, and communicate more effectively as a team. Children ages six and up, teens, and adults in a family will each have tailored experiences so they can learn and practice skills in contexts relevant to their own lives.  Because the skills fit together, families  will leave with a shared framework for continuing to talk about and practice skills for being safe with people in a way that is positive, productive, and enjoyable.
 
During the first two hours on Saturday, children ages 6-12 accompanied by their parents and caregivers will learn and practice Kidpower People Safety skills together.  During the second two hours on Saturday, adults will have an adults-only opportunity to work with an experienced Kidpower instructor so they ask questions and practice skills that will strengthen their ability to help the young people from toddlers to teenagers in their lives develop strong, age-appropriate People Safety skills.  During that time, their children will be in a separate room learning additional skills, including full force self-defense skills with the head-to-toe padded instructor.
 
For the first three hours on Sunday, the children will continue their skills practice with the Kidpower teaching team in one room.  In a different room, their adults, joined by teens from the participating families as well as  other adults enrolling for just this segment, will have their own Fullpower Introductory Workshop for Adults with the head-to-toe padded instructor.  For the last hour, the adults and kids will come back together for the Demonstration for Adults, so the kids can show what they learned.

Note: Because we are committing two highly experienced teaching teams to this program, we will not be able to offer the FamilyPower workshop to the public more than twice a year or at a different location. We are conducting this program at less than cost and will not be able to offer scholarships. However, people needing scholarships can have access to the same services over time through our other public classes or one of our grant-funded programs. People who want the FamilyPower program at a different time or location can arrange to organize this as a private workshop.

Fee: $210 for the first child and adult, $75 for each additional family member. Workshop fee includes a copy of The KIDPOWER Book for Caring Adults and our Kidpower or Fullpower Safety Comics.

Fees by number of participants:
One child and one adult: $210
Three family members total (either two children and one adult or one child and two adults): $285
Four family members total: $360

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