Info on online workshops to help you through the pandemic is here.
Defend Yourself empowers people
–especially women and LGBTQ+ people—to end violence and create a world where they can be fully themselves.
In our classes you’ll learn skills to help you prevent, interrupt, heal from, and end violence and abuse. You’ll leave better equipped to deal with everything from annoying people to full-on attacks.
Defend Yourself’s experienced instructors know self-defense theory and techniques, the facts about violence, trauma, and healing, and effective teaching methods. And our students love them!
COMING UP
Join us for free online workshops that will support you, your family, and your community during the pandemic.
- Empowerment and Self-Defense for A/PI People: Register here.
- Active bystander skills for stopping anti-Asian hate: Register here.
- Basic boundaries during the pandemic: Setting limits inside and outside the home: Let us know if you want to be notified when registration is open
- Partners, family, and roommates: Dealing with too much togetherness: Let us know if you want to be notified when registration is open
Want a workshop just for your group? Contact us.
Get Empowered! A Self-Defense Happy Hour (16+), various Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., DC Center for the LGBT Community, 14th and U Streets, NW.
On My Own: Independence Skills for Tweens, Saturday, May 2, 2-4:30 p.m., Willow Street Yoga, Takoma Park. POSTPONED
Active Bystander Training, Wednesday, April 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m., The DC Center for the LGBT Community, 14th and U Streets, NW. POSTPONED
Safer & More Confident: Six Weeks of Empowerment Self-Defense, April 15 to May 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m., The DC Center for the LGBT Community, 14th and U Streets, NW. POSTPONED
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Find out more about our classes for everyone.
What can we do for you?
Join a class that Defend Yourself has set up, or create one just for your group! Check out our Safe Bars program, Defend Yourself’s bystander intervention program for bar, club, and restaurant staffs. Or just one click and you can learn something now!
