Our Objectives
ARMD Riverina provides practical, street-based personal protection and self-defence programs to female students and professionals and promotes personal safety. We meet these objectives through interactive activities.
Program Background
The Respond.Empower.Liberate (REL) program was created in 2009 and predominantly lies around:
- situational awareness
- understanding violence dynamics
- threat avoidance
- threat recognition
- threat management
- pre-cue indicators
- and confident body language profile
REL is not a Sports or martial arts program. Our methods are based on reality arising from violence against women.
Since its inception, more than 1,600 women have completed the REL program, which is designed to provide strategies on how to deal with domestic and non-domestic violence.
A tried-and-tested combination of mind and body training makes the participants more aware of their potential strengths through learning effective principles and concepts to protect themselves against various assailants, whether armed or unarmed, in their house, car, or streets.
Participants are shown basic self-defence strategies that can be used in various situations. The program equips the participants with basic tools to recognise, evaluate, avoid, negotiate and actively respond to circumstances that can lead to any assault.
The program is for all fitness levels and has been developed specifically for women. No prior knowledge about self-defence is required. It consists of a mixture of theoretical and practical elements that build on one's skills and confidence.
