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ACT Core Workshop

The ACT Core Workshop provides an effective introduction to the essentials of personal protection. The course is made up of 9 primary components which provide the tools for preventing and coping with violent confrontation, and focus on specific areas of vulnerability including safety at home, or entering and exiting the car.

The ACT Core Workshop can be delivered as a once-off five to six hour session, or over two evening sessions of two to three hours each. Depending on your lifestyle or the work you perform, ACT can provide more specialised training such as family safety, hijacking prevention or training for Sales Reps. See ACT Corporate Programs

ACT Core Advanced Workshop

The Advanced Core Workshop builds on what was learnt in the Core Workshop to ultimately equip you with a highly developed and fully personalized safety strategy. This Workshop will explore and pinpoint ways you can lower your risks to the greatest degree possible in terms of your specific lifestyle, and will also cover more advanced elements of physical defense.

ACT Hijack Prevention

 

In South Africa, car jacking (or hijacking) is often a violent crime, perpetrated by one or more robbers who approach a driver, point a gun or other weapon at them and force them to turn over the car. Often the victim is robbed of other valuables, abducted and possibly raped. A successful hijacker is prosecuted for armed robbery if there are not other circumstances such as rape or murder.

The ACT Hijack Prevention Workshop teaches essential safety information including when and where most hijackings take place, how to recognize the different types of hijacking, how to minimize your vulnerability to hijacking and how best to respond to a hijacker to maximize your own and your passengers' chances of survival

ACT Corporate Offerings

No business in an increasingly crime-riddled South Africa can expect success if they are not equipped with the ability to protect their most valuable asset - their employees.

Both in the office, on the road and whilst at home with their families, employees are at risk. And, just as strategic forward-planning is necessary to prepare your organization for doing business, so too do we believe in preparing you for any eventuality when the safety of your organization, its people and loved ones are threatened.

As routine as submitting your tax returns, you should see the equipping of your employees with safety skills as an essential investment that will yield a more secure, and therefore more profitable, working environment.

In addition to offering employees the ACT Core Workshop, which is adapted to include safety planning for your specific premises, we offer a range of specialised courses that combine the Core Program with safety elements unique to various professions. These include the following.

ACT for Executives

When executives travel to other countries, they are exposed to foreign surroundings, which in turn exposes them to unfamiliar dangers. This program focuses on personal and travel safety. We also understand that a person's partner (and children) may well feel vulnerable and we provide training to ensure there is complete peace of mind while an executive is away.

ACT for Reps

With targets to meet and customers to see, a company sales representative has no security guard to take care of them during their working day. Most Reps spend their day on the road and on their phones (sometimes both at the same time). They may visit clients like doctors or manufacturers and service providers, who may be based in unfamiliar or unsafe locations. This program focuses on areas of risk specifically pertinent to company reps, including travel by car.

ACT for Estate Agents

This program highlights the specific vulnerabilities of estate agents and trains them how to deal with each of these areas to minimize their risks. It also includes a section specifically dealing with how to host show houses without becoming a sitting target for criminals.

ACT for Bed and Breakfasts and Self Catering Establishments

B&B's and Self-Catering Establishments have specific problems that few other businesses face. On a daily basis, they "invite" unfamiliar people into their homes and businesses at all times of the day and night. This course focuses on these precise vulnerabilities.

ACT Corporate Team Building

Crime touches everyone and provides a common bond that lays the basis for a great team building event, with the added benefit of taking home lifesaving skills. Unique scenario-based exercises engage the participants in an enjoyable and fruitful experience to stimulate thinking about security issues, while learning to work as a team. Together, participants develop communication, collaboration and strategy skills. Understanding their fear helps to break down stereotypes and empowers each individual to remain part of a winning team

ACT Speaking Engagements

Kelee Arrowsmith has been presenting workable personal safety solutions for more than 10 years, both in South Africa and abroad. Through simple yet highly effective talks and workshop programs, advanced personal safety expert Kelee Arrowsmith provides a variety of world class solutions that equip listeners with the means to effectively protect themselves.

ACT Family Safety

‘I would give my life to save my child and partner!’ This is a frequently heard response when asked how one would confront an invader in the home. Although a noble intention, it is fatally flawed. Once you give your life for your loved ones the intruder is free to do whatever they wish with the survivors.

Violent attacks sometimes occur when we are together as a family, often in the home. How does one person, even if they are well trained in self defence, protect members of their family while keeping themselves safe from harm?

At Advanced Conflict Training, we understand that people need to be given tools that develop safety strategies for their families, taking into account the fine line between practicing safety and frightening young children. Our workshops are critical in enabling young children to get to safety or run for help whilst remaining calm. Scenario based training helps the parent (or guardian) to plan their actions together with their family and to understand the implications of the decisions they make under stress. Parents also learn to talk positively and productively with their child about their own boundaries, such as unwanted attention or inappropriate touching, what to do in an emergency and other important safety situations.

The Parent also learns to talk positively and productively with their child about their own boundaries, such as unwanted attention or touching, what to do in an emergency and other important safety situations.

ACT Kids and Carers

Developed with the aid of a Clinical Child Psychologist and a School Teacher, the ACT Kids and Carers Safety Workshop teaches kids in a safe, non-scary way to recognise “bad guys”, while equipping them with the tools they need to cope with the problems they will face.

The ACT Kids and Carers is a 2 hour workshop, which is delivered by two qualified ACT Trainers. The kids are taught how to set their boundaries and practice for their safety, while the Carers (adults) are taught how to continue with the training help the kids to make safety a part of their every day lives.

ACT for Women

One's first thoughts when hearing the words ‘Self Defence for Women’ might include ‘kick to the groin’. At Advanced Conflict Training we believe that if you are about to kick someone in the groin, you have already missed the first 8 principles of self protection. In fact, when confronted by attackers, especially if they are armed, a kick to the groin is probably not the right move.

Developed by a woman, the ACT Women’s Safety Program is based on the ACT Core Program and addresses various real-life threat situations that women may face. These include: uncomfortable to violent confrontations, how to recognise them, how they develop and how to safely remove yourself from them.

The program incorporates a strong rape prevention module, and looks at methods that one can use to successfully defend oneself when faced by an invariably physically stronger man.