WEN-DO Women’s Self Defence Class

Join us this fall for Wen-Do, a Women's Self-Defense one-day course! The workshop will be held on Saturday, October 1st, from 10:00 am-4:00 pm at RAC Studio 1, 50 Gould Street. Participants will: 

• Learn simple, powerful self-defense skills. 
• Explore a range of effective verbal self-defense strategies.
  
• Develop their ability to recognize and deal with threatening situations.
• Increase their confidence.
• Build a community... and have fun!
  

About Wen-Do:

Wen-Do Women’s Self-Defense is a registered charity and Canada's oldest women’s self-defence organization. Our fifteen-hour Basic course covers various physical and verbal self-defence techniques, awareness and avoidance of threatening situations, and discussions of psychological, social, and legal issues involved in self-defence. All of our classes are taught by women, for women and girls.  Classes are open to anyone whose lived gender identity is that of a woman or girl (whether cis or trans), aged ten and up, of any level of physical ability.

Health Measures: All workshop participants will be masked, and air filters will be in the studio. If you are feeling sick, we ask that you stay home.

Clothing: Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and flat rubber-soled shoes.

Community Partners: This event is a collaboration between Consent Comes First, the Office of Sexual Violence Support and Education and the Learn To program of Recreation and Athletics. 

Open to: This workshop is available for FREE for TMU Women (cis, trans) and gender nonbinary.

For questions, please email groupfit@torontomu.ca.