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- Customized trainings for your workplace
- Single-session, multi-session, half-day, and full-day trainings available
- Can be hosted at your business or at our beautiful Rogers Park Center
- Shiatsu Bodywork Wellness add-on available for onsite bookings
Empowerment & Self-Defense Trainings for Customized for Your Company
Culture of Safety offers a variety of empowerment-based trainings for companies. We start with our standard offerings, and then work with you to craft proposals that meet your needs and those of your staff or constituents. Most of the offerings on our Empowerment & self-defense class for groups can be offered in a workplace setting, but the following classes were specifically developed with companies in mind. Whether it’s empowerment self-defense, workplace communication, or mindfulness classes you’re looking for, we can craft a training for your team that is both fun and useful. Depending on the program and your needs, classes from Culture of Safety can be a teambuilding activity for employees, or a way of increasing your team’s engagement and job satisfaction. Below is a list of popular formats just for workplaces — let us know what you’re looking for and we’ll work to meet your needs and your staffs’.
We also offer space rental for groups, teams, and corporate retreats. Learn more about space rental at Culture of Safety here!
Trainings customized for your workplace
All of our trainings are customized and tailored to fit the needs of your organization and employees. The following can be offered individually as a single-session, or in combination or in expanded formats for multi-session or half-day/full-day retreats. Submit an inquiry and we’ll respond with a full proposal, tailored to the needs of your organization or business.
Empowerment self-defense (2-12 hours+)
This interactive training helps your employees feel strong, confident, and more at-ease in their everyday life. Practice with Self-defense physical skills gives them the embodied confidence to stand up for themselves and others and to physically defend themselves if necessary, so they can live with more confidence and less fear. Our verbal skills practice gives your employees practice setting boundaries for themselves and respecting the boundaries of others, enabling them to co-create healthier relationships in the workplace, at home, and in their daily lives.
For the 6 hours+ options, this offering comes with a choice of a variety of modules and can be offered as full day retreat or multiple half-day or full-day sessions. Organizations can select from our extensive a la carte menu of modules, including: Boundary Setting with Colleagues, De-escalation in the Workplace, Bystander Intervention, Responses to Harassment, Grab Escapes, Fighting from the ground, Resisting an Armed Attacker, Using Everyday Items as Weapons, or substitute for one of the below offerings.
De-Escalation for healthcare and social services staff (2-3 hours)
Healthcare professions see more workplace violence than almost any other. This short, affordable training uses hands-on practice to increase workers’ ability to notice when someone is potentially going to escalate, to de-escalate a situation when possible, and defend themselves if necessary. Customizable for healthcare or social service settings. We partner with professional actors (or SPs) to give every participants the opportunity to practice verbal de-escalation skills in a realistic but low-stakes setting. Endeavor (formerly NorthShore University Health System) partnered with Culture of Safety to offer this de-escalation training to all of their ED and Immediate Care staff. Note that rates are higher than our standard rates for this training due to greater staffing requirements.
Communication, Connection, and Safety in the Workplace (3-6 hours)
This highly interactive, trauma-informed, strengths-based 6-hour training includes paired exercises, role plays, and physical self-defense skills with the goal of enabling each participant to fully experience their own emotional and physical strength, enhancing their personal safety both at work and in everyday life.
This 6-hour training is ideally offered as two half-day retreats, and includes training in communication skills, recognizing and responding to power dynamics, and emergency-level physical self-defense skills. The result is an improved organizational culture and employees who connect more authentically in the workplace.
Preventing Harassment in the Workplace (includes Sexual Harassment, 2 hours)
Tired of cookie-cutter trainings that simply “check the box” of what is required? Looking for a training that’s going to make a difference in your employees lives? This interactive 3 hour workshop fulfills the Illinois requirements for annual Sexual Harassment Training…and then some! This training includes interactive exercises for helping employees recognize and respond to harassment based on on sex, gender, immigration status, race, and more. Your employees will learn and practice ways of recognizing and responding to different forms of harassment.
Welcoming and Supporting Diversity in the Workplace (3 hrs)
A beautiful complement to our “Preventing Harassment in the Workplace” offering, this engaging training is a primer on diversity in the workplace. Your employees will work together to notice and appreciate the varieties of diversity that exist in any given workplace (sex, gender, immigration status, race, physical ability, neurodiversity, age and more). Your employees will learn about unconscious bias and ways to minimize harm from this bias in the workplace and discover ways to speak up and out to support themselves and others. Through group activities, your employees will build action plans together to help discover ways to affirm and support diversity both within the staff, and to protect vulnerable clients (as appropriate).
Bystander Intervention in the Workplace (3 hrs)
Are your employees looking for ways to create a safer space for each other in the workplace and in the world at large? Your employees will learn and practice assessing how and when to safely intervene in various situations. This interactive workshop can be run as a mostly verbal-skills training, or include a physical component, at the discretion of the organizer.
PowerUP Self-Defense Classes (Ongoing Series)
PowerUP programs are designed to increase workplace engagement by giving employees the tools to feel safe, strong, and self-confident in the workplace.
PowerUP Basic is a 6-week workplace empowerment program. Part workout, part meditation, and part assertiveness training, each session will leave participants feeling more powerful and in charge of themselves, their lives, and their work. Workouts are centered around self-defense techniques to further increase participants’ confidence. At the last session, participants break boards and earn their PowerUP Basic certification.
Further certifications can be earned by completing each of the 3 advanced PowerUP programs: PowerUP: Voice, PowerUP: Body, and PowerUP: Mind. Each of these 6-week sessions is a deep dive into its respective subject matter. Completion of each 6-week program earns its respective certification, and completion of all 3 plus Basic earns participants a PowerUP Master certification. Participants will typically earn PowerUP Master certification in 6 – 8 months.
Looking for space for a group, meeting, or special event?
We also offer space rentals for the matted space, our conference and meeting area, and for our massage treatment room. Rent the space for your local group or class or for your next corporate retreat! Learn more here!
