LGBTQ Self Defence with Zoë Boyd

We are excited to be partnering with Zoë Boyd from Bent Collective to run a comprehensive self-defence workshop, covering:

• Basic striking
• Grab defence
• Grappling and choke defence
• Personal awareness
• Self-defence law
• De-escalation

Zoë is a self-defence instructor and a martial artist with over 14 years' experience in combat sports. She began teaching self-defence classes after realising how many instructors were ex-police or ex-military, and how that had given them a perspective on violence that didn't match her lived experience. She teaches a more compassionate form of self-defence, tailored to marginalised people, and backed up by research and data. She is also a professional wrestler and enjoys pretending to fight people as much as the real thing!ilitary, and how that had given them a perspective on violence that didn't match her lived experience. She teaches a more compassionate form of self-defence, tailored to marginalised people, and backed up by research and data. She is also a professional wrestler and enjoys pretending to fight people as much as the real thing!

Session Breakdown

- 1:00-1:15, intros

- 1:15-1:45, talk about legality and de-escalation

- 1:45-2:00, de-escalation roleplay

- 2:00-3:30, physical session

- 3:30-4:00, cool-down and catharsis/stress management exercises.