ESD Global, Inc is a global collective of Empowerment Self Defense instructors, activists, and educators dedicated to providing comprehensive training worldwide. Their empowerment-based, trauma-informed approach focuses on honoring and expanding the choices of participants, particularly those who have experienced trauma and discrimination. Through physical self-defense techniques, verbal techniques, awareness skills, and confidence-building practices, ESD Global aims to empower individuals and communities to interrupt, respond to, and heal from violence in all its forms.
With a mission to establish empowerment self-defense training as a key violence prevention strategy, ESD Global works to create new generations of instructors from diverse communities. These instructors are equipped with the tools to teach Empowerment Self Defense methodologies that are tailored to their specific communities and the populations they serve. By expanding the network of teachers worldwide, ESD Global ensures that learning ESD is widely accessible and contributes to the global effort of reducing gender-based violence and other acts of interpersonal violence.
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