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1. Personal attributesThe successful self defense instructor demonstrates:
2. Ability to teach physical self defense skillsThe successful self defense instructor demonstrates:
3. Ability to model and teach non-physical self defense: empowerment, assertiveness and problem-solvingThe successful self defense instructor demonstrates:
4. Ability to establish an atmosphere of safety, respect and supportThe successful self defense instructor demonstrates:
5. Ethical framework and philosophy of anti-violenceThe National Women’s Martial Arts Federation requires that its certified instructors “be in agreement with the philosophical assumptions developed by the [National Coalition Against Sexual Assault Self-Defense] NCASA AD-HOC Committee regarding the teaching of self defense”:
6. Political awareness/contextualization of violenceThe successful self defense instructor demonstrates:
| Courtesy of the Self Defense Instructors’ Institute, Valley Women's Martial Arts: Dorian Gregory, Sally Johnson Van Wright, and Lynne Marie Wanamaker, Easthampton, MA. For more information email lmw@lmwsafe.com. |