Wen-Do (Women and Non-Binary Self Defence)
Sep 21, 2023
2:30PM to 4:30PM
Date/Time
Date(s) - 21/09/2023
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Categories
Wen-Do is Canada‘s oldest women’s self-defence organization. This program is being offered for women and nonbinary students. Techniques are designed for all ages, sizes, and abilities. A combination of discussion, with practical physical skills results in an integration of mental and physical preparedness.
About the Facilitator
Shailagh (Shaiden) Keaney (xe/xem/xyr) fosters empowerment through passionate, engaging and seriously fun self-defence classes, and has been doing so since 2015. Participants in Shaiden’s classes get practical self-defence techniques combined with skilled explorations of the realities of gendered violence. Shaiden believes in choice, survival and the power of healing through ferocity.