The Learning Source is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring three Wen-do Self Defence workshops for women and girls in January and February. Wen-Do Women's Self Defence is a registered charity and the oldest women's self defence organization in Canada. They believe that a woman's experience with and the fear of violence is typically different from men's, and it is therefore vital for women and girls to have access to self-defence courses taught by women, for women and girls only. Women and girls already have a wealth of experience in protecting their own safety. Females can use their bodies effectively; regardless of age, athletic ability, disabled or non-disabled, to resist or defuse violent situations. Wen-do training aims to build on participants' prior knowledge and increase their self-confidence by teaching a variety of awareness, avoidance and verbal self-defence strategies, and simple, practical physical techniques that are designed to be effective even against a larger and stronger attacker.
The goal of Wen-do workshops is to increase the choices available to women, and to provide suggestions and ideas, not a list of do's and don'ts. Instructors emphatically reject any approach that tries to blame women and girls for having "provoked" or "failed to prevent" violent attempts to dominate and control them. We believe that ultimately each female must make her own decision about how to respond to a particular situation.
For more information on the Peterborough and Havelock workshops, visit here.
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