Strong, Aware & Empowered: A Women's Self-Defense Workshop

An empowering women's self-defense experience | Confidence • Intuition • Boundaries • Personal Safety What would it feel like to move through the world with greater confidence, trust in your intuition, and the skills to protect yourself? Join us at The Still Collective for an empowering women's self-defense workshop designed to help you feel more confident, capable, and prepared in everyday life. This experience goes beyond physical self-defense. Through practical techniques, situational awareness, and effective verbal communication, you'll learn how to recognize potential threats, establish boundaries, de-escalate uncomfortable situations, and respond when your safety is at risk. Explore the connection between intuition and personal safety while learning practical, real-world skills you can carry with you long after the workshop ends. Because self-protection begins long before physical confrontation. It begins with trusting yourself, recognizing your boundaries, and knowing that you have the right to take up space, speak up, and protect yourself. In this workshop, you'll learn: • Practical self-defense techniques for real-world situations. • How to recognize warning signs and trust your intuition. • Verbal boundaries and word-for-word scripts for uncomfortable or potentially dangerous encounters. • Situational awareness and strategies for recognizing and avoiding potential threats. • How to respond to unwanted attention, confrontation, and threatening behavior. • How to move beyond people-pleasing and societal conditioning that can make it difficult to assert boundaries. You don't need prior martial arts experience, athletic ability, or a certain level of physical strength. This workshop is designed to help women discover just how capable they are. Come as you are. Leave feeling stronger, more aware, and more empowered. What to Bring: Comfortable activewear and a water bottle. Meet Your Instructor: Angelica Robbins Angelica is a women's self-defense and intuition coach with 20 years of martial arts training and experience teaching women how to protect themselves through physical skills, situational awareness, and non-conflict communication. She leads the Women's Self-Defense Program at the College of Charleston and facilitates workshops for gyms, schools, charitable organizations, corporate groups, and private retreats. Through her own internationally developed self-defense program, Angelica teaches women life-saving skills and practical strategies for navigating potentially dangerous situations. One of her greatest joys is watching women discover that their ability to defend themselves has little to do with their size, strength, or athletic background. Her students often leave with a completely different sense of what they're capable of, carrying greater confidence, awareness, and trust in themselves. Angelica believes the fight often begins long before physical confrontation. By unlearning the conditioning that teaches women to be agreeable at the expense of their own safety, women can reclaim their boundaries, trust their instincts, and develop the skills to protect themselves.