Our Vision for the World
We believe in s a future of empathy, empowerment, and engagement from and for people everywhere.

Our Mission
Empowering women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, & members of marginalized communities to develop and hold healthy relationships, work to end gender, sexual, and race-based violence, and become influencers and leaders in spaces affecting their health and safety but which have silenced and ignored their voices.

Our Values
We Believe:
The Pioneering Spirit is rooted in the belief that we are free to succeed and that it is safe to fail, get up, and try again.
Empowerment, tempered by Empathy, is the key to ending the abuse and insecurity intrinsic in Predator Culture.
That a world where everyone feels safe and confident in living healthy, free, bold, connected lives is possible within our lifetime.
We all carry a dictionary with vocabulary learned through the lens of our personal experience. We must also carry 7.5 billion Thesauri if we expect to communicate effectively and honor those around us.

Over 20 years of experience teaching Empowerment Self Defense in the United States and abroad to groups ranging from in-patient Eating Disorder Clinic Patients to Activist and Protest groups to Special Operations and Security Teams needing to add trauma-informed response to their toolbox.

Our Founders, Cat and Liz, bring over 50 years cumulative teaching experience in movement modalities, including Martial Arts, Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training for Professional and Olympic Athletes, Meridian Stretching for Injury Prevention and Post-intervention recovery, Dance and Pilates.

We offer:
Stand-alone 4, 6, and 8-hour Workshops for families, friends groups, social groups, and the general public
ESD Workshops and on-going courses for educational institutions (from Primary and Secondary Schools to Universities)
Activist and Protest Group Safety Workshops
Nonviolent Activism Workshops
ESD Special Operations and Security Team Rapid Assault Training
Bachelor/ Bachelorette One-day Experiences