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The International Association of ESD Professionals (IAESDP) is proud to launch The Strong Side—a powerful new violence prevention initiative in football that brings the life-changing tools of Empowerment Self Defense (ESD) into the heart of football culture. This
I’ll start by making an admission: I learned everything I know about ESD by teaching it. What? Well, I created an Empowerment Self Defense curriculum called ASSERT about 20 years
Empowerment Self-Defense (ESD) is emerging as a go-to framework for tackling rising incidents of gender-based violence, bullying, and harassment worldwide. Organizations like the International Association of ESD Professionals (IAESDP) aim
Your experience can empower others. You’ve overcome challenges as an ESD instructor or student—navigated classroom crises, broke through personal barriers, found your strength. We want your story for the IAESDP
On Predator Culture, the language that hides it, and the only education that changes the ground it grows on. By: Lissette Brassac Fitzgerald ⚠ TRIGGER WARNING Trigger Warning — and I want to address that phrase directly before we go any further. “Trigger Warning” has become a reflex. A buffer between the reader and the reality. Used with good intentions — always — it has also quietly become permission to look away. I am using it here because some of what follows is genuinely difficult. But I want to be honest: I am tired — and I know I am not alone in this —
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Reflections on Cultural Awareness & the Capacity to Be Humbled In Costa Rica, where I live, the communication style is...
