This healing-centered Train-the-Trainer course is designed to equip Xinachtli facilitators and community leaders with the skills, tools, and confidence to lead empowerment-based self-defense workshops in their communities and circulos. Rooted in cultural wisdom and sacred practice, this offering centers the safety, voice, and sovereignty of women, youth, and gender-expansive people — especially in honor of those we’ve lost to gender-based violence and the MMIWGR crisis.
Participants will explore a 90-minute, trauma-informed curriculum that integrates:
-Awareness Skills (intuition, observation, spatial memory)
-Assertiveness Skills (boundary-setting, powerful voice, unapologetic NO)
-Physical Response Skills (interrupting harm and escaping)
-Cultural and ceremonial grounding to reclaim safety as sacred
This training is open to Xinachtli-trained facilitators, youth leaders, circle keepers, and healing justice practitioners.
Sliding fee scale available $77-222
Empowerment Based Self-Defense- a Train-the-Trainer Companion Course
