Below is a partial list of our offerings based on your responses. Each Esteem program is customized to meet your life communication needs.

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Communicating, Dating and Relating for College Women

  • Enhance interpersonal communication skills for work, school, and dating situations
  • Practice setting and enforcing boundaries
  • Master physical self-defense techniques to handle worst case scenarios

Communicating, Dating and Relating for College Men

  • Master conflict resolution, de-escalation, and physical self-defense skills
  • Learn to correctly interpret verbal and nonverbal communication common in social situations, including dating
  • Understand what constitutes unwelcome attention and sexual harassment

Personal Safety Seminar

  • Gain skills for avoidance, deterrence, and resistance of physical and verbal assault
  • Learn to assess the potential danger in a situation
  • Participate in an interactive question-and-answer style format addressing individual concerns about assertiveness, safety, and self-defense

Self-Defense for LGBTQI

  • Gain skills for avoidance, deterrence, and resistance of physical and verbal assault
  • Learn to assess the potential danger in a situation
  • Master easy to learn hands-on physical self-defense techniques

Self-Defense for Women

  • Master easy to learn hands-on physical self-defense techniques
  • Participate in verbal role-plays
  • Learn body language and voice control
  • Move beyond the freeze response
  • Deliver full-force debilitating blows to equipment or a padded “assailant” in a variety of simulated attack scenarios
  • Advanced courses may include opportunity to practice skills in role play scenarios involving weapons and multiple attackers

Self Defense for Men

  • Learn about boundary setting, including the importance of distance, ego control, and de-escalation techniques
  • Master easy to learn hands-on physical self-defense techniques
  • Practice defensive counter-attacks, blocks, and strikes to equipment or a padded “assailant” in a variety of simulated attack scenarios
  • Gain proficiency in verbal and nonverbal communication
  • Advanced courses may include opportunity to practice skills in role play scenarios involving weapons and multiple attackers

Assertiveness Training for Women

  • Determine personal comfort zones and set boundaries that stick
  • Distinguish among passive, assertive and aggressive behavior
  • Learn about the importance of voice control and body language when dealing with acquaintances and strangers who do not respect personal or professional boundaries

About Last Night … What Everyone Thinks Happened at the Party: How Miscommunication Impacts Student Life

  • Learn about the relationship between alcohol consumption and sexual assault and other aggressive behaviors
  • Understand how alcohol impacts the ability to assess and react to risk
  • Identify peer environments that encourage heavy drinking and sexual assault
  • Gain skills to set and enforce appropriate boundaries and limits in social situations

Conflict Transformation

  • Learn the five conflict styles and recognize when each is most effective
  • Master the building blocks to assertive communication
  • Understand the impact of nonverbal communication

 Esteem Students in Action