Flip the Script Sexual Assault Resistance Education program is a 12-hour workshop at the University of Windsor. In February 2021, senior instructor Deb Chard spoke with Anne Redzinski in a one-hour interview for Flip The Script.
Our Bodies, Our Wen-Do By Hanna Liubakova for Transitions With domestic violence rates in Belarus among the highest in Europe and few legal protections, some women are turning to self-defense classes. On an early Saturday morning some 15 women gather…
By Sara Mathov-Olszewicki for DMJ Zone She does a full, fold wrap squeeze, thumb on the outside, drops her fist down to her waist, comes around in a circle like a piston on a train, practising smashing down and through.…
By Olivia Jones for The Cord On Wednesday Jan. 23, the first class of a five-week series of Wen-Do Women’s Self Defence was hosted for students on the Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo campus. The Laurier Sexual Violence Education Action Group,…
Arij Elmi gained the courage to speak up against racist comments after studying self-defense. Now she teaches other women to do the same By Megan Easton for University of Toronto Magazine The sounds of kids playing in Christie Pits Park on…
Sonia D’Amico interviewed Wen-Do instructor Deb Chard for a piece on Y a pas deux matins pareils. You won‘t hear Deb, but you will learn all about what happens in a 15 hour intensive Wen-Do training. Listen to this french-language…
