Response from Wen-Do Workshops

Here is some of the feedback received from our two Women's Self-Defence Wen-Do Sessions that ran Sunday, January 23rd and Saturday, February 5th:

"Very informative, interactive and relevant to my community".

"It went really well!!

"The workshop was a truly empowering experience for both the women and the girls who attended. I now feel more sure of my ability to defend myself and that is a great feeling".

"The workshop was beyond my expectations. It was very well taught."

"My granddaughter loved it."

"It was an excellent workshop. I learned lots of good information about self defense. The course was fun despite it dealing with a sensitive and difficult issue, and it was very well paced."

Empowering Ourselves

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.