Children’s Assertiveness Training & Fear Adrenalised Stress Training Personal Protection
Children’s Assertiveness Training Series (CATS)
Children’s Assertiveness Training Series (CATS)
This program teaches children (age 4 - 10 years) creative and powerful skills to deal with difficult situations that they may have to face. Using non-violent strategies, children learn how to effectively avoid, control and de-escalate a bully's aggression. The following skills will be taught:
Avoiding playground altercations
How to handle name calling
Protecting personal space
Target Hardening (how not to look like a victim)
Situation Control
Setting boundaries against inappropriate touch or attention
Assessing appropriate defence and how to NOT start a fight
Stranger Awareness Training
FAST Cats teaches children how to avoid unwelcome attention from adult predators. This program uses full force defensive strikes and physical contact to fight off an adult predator.
Other skills taught include:
Getting lost prevention - using safety checklist, knowing names, address, phone numbers.
Home safety skills
Abduction awareness – basic skills to detect and avoid abduction
Target Hardening (how not to look like a victim)
How to physically break away and escape the grasp of a would be abductor
Children gain confidence with the new assertive choices they learn to apply in a wide variety of situations. By asserting proper awareness and de-escalation skills, C.A.T.S. students are far less likely to react out of anger and fear. As a result, there is less need for a physical response. All training is done in an adrenalised environment so pupils learn not to freeze and panic when they encounter dangerous situations. How you react to a situation can mean the difference between success and failure, life or death.
This course is delivered as a Activity Day for primary schools or in a 6 or 7 Week Program and can be delivered privately also.
The Safety Box run a number of self defence training programs through our protection courses arm of the business for children, young people and women some of which include:
Rape Defence for Women & Teens
We prepare our youth for life by giving them opportunities to grow physically, financially, spiritually, culturally, and morally. Yet one question remains: how well are we preparing them for their personal safety once they step outside our doors?
A good upbringing alone is no longer enough. Today’s young people face threats that range from Knife attacks, Violence and cyberbullying to the theft of smartphones, iPads, and personal belongings. These dangers are real, immediate, and often unpredictable.
At The Safety Box, we have studied the most common threats to young people’s safety. Every scenario we train is drawn directly from police reports of actual incidents, gang attacks, and real life violent incidents ensuring that our role-plays are not hypothetical, they are acutely relevant.
Our F.A.S.T. (Fear Adrenaline Stress Training) Defence courses go beyond theory. Pupils learn how the body reacts when the heart rate spikes under adrenaline-fuelled encounters when fine motor skills collapse and only gross functional movements remain. We teach how to harness that surge of energy, turning instinctive reactions into effective defensive tactics.
Training is delivered at full intensity against our padded “Bulletmen,” so participants experience what it feels like to block, move, and defend under pressure. The emphasis is on simplicity: if a skill isn’t simple, it won’t survive the chaos of a real confrontation.
This is training that takes safety to a real level where heartbeats, stress, and survival instincts meet practical, usable defence.
For more information on this course please email fast@thesafetybox.org or contact us using the contact booking form.
Gross MOTOR KNIFE PREVENTION AND DEFENCE PROGRAM (MAIN MODULES)
• Avoidance
• The Consequences
• Prison from the inside
• Life Story
• The Effect on Family and Friends
• The Value you place on your life
• Something to live for
• Spotting potential danger
• Building Awareness Strategies
• The effects of adrenaline and stress
• Body Posture in attack prevention
• Verbal Defence
• Reactionary Distancing
• Gross Motor-functional Movement Blocking (Utilising SAFE Simple, Adaptable, Fast and Effective)
• Controlling the attackers knife hand
• The knife lines of attack
• Blocking against a knife
• Taster Defending against a knife attack level 1. (Static)
• Taster Defending against a knife attack level 2. (Slashes)
• Taster Defending against knife attacks level 3. (Rear hand grip, forward hand grip Thrusts)
• What to do if you get cut
• Being the best you can be
• End of Workshop
Please note all programs can be tailor made for YJS and HMYOI’s
Self Defence Program Calendar
To book onto any one of our courses please email: info@thesafetybox.org