Finally -- Online courses for contemporary personal safety education!

MLS SDU overcomes distance and scarcity problems for people seeking simple and reliable skills and resources to prevent violence.

SDU courses provide a complete curriculum for understanding risk and preventing hazards from others, at your fingertips! Recognize and acknowlege your unique skills and resources. Discover new and exciting techniques, resources, and contexts for skill-building. Become a support to others. Especially, E-learning with MLS gives you a valuable community of advisors, through our peer-training discussions.

Self-defense E-learning Courses are designed to be age and audience-specific. Enrollment is available through the MLS Marketplace, open during the Fall, Winter, and Spring Terms.

PROGRAMS ONLINE from Mona Lisa's Sword SDU

SDI Courses: Designed for leaders of contemporary women's self-defense.

G-Series Courses: Self-defense Education and training tips for girls.

WSD Courses: Self-defense education, discussion, and training tips for adult woman.

MATERIALS for E-learning

All E-Courses from MLS include:

E-list registration -- participate, discuss, question, and share. Each course is time-specific and allows you to participate at your own pace. Courses run 8 to 12 months.

Written lessons: essential information, personal safety theory and analysis, pre- and post-testing for those who choose, discussion topics and talking points, simple-to-apply skills and practice suggestions,

CURRENTLY ENROLLING

SDI 101: Foundation Skills: Contemporary Self-defense for Leaders

Foudation Skills is a discussion of contemporary self-defense theory, with a complete introduction to the SD de-escalation model of the MLS curriculum, including boundary skills and physical skills training. Leaders who complete the foundation skills course are informed for teaching introductory de-escalation self-defense, as well as basic physical self-defense for women and men. This is an excellent professional development opportunity for any leader of safety training, and a valuable overview and review of skills and concepts for members intersted in MLS Certification.

G101: GirlSafety Education - A Contemporary Personal Safety Program for Girls age 12 and older

This self-defense basics introduction is designed for young girls and young women. Parental participation is encouraged. This E-list for questions and discussion covers essential topics of risk awareness and boundary-setting; danger signals, lures and ploys; protective factors and skills-suggestions for developing physical and non-physical safety techniques, including verbal defense. Topics are current and essential discussions for youth developing personal protection skills and awareness.

COMING this Summer:

WSD 101: Contemporary Self-defense Education

SDI 102: Teaching Verbal Defense