The Seven Aspects of Self-Defense: Conclusion

1. Ethics and Legalities

• Facing Violence (Book and DVD)
• Meditations on Violence
• Please Understand Me (not germane to violence, but important for teaching models)
• ConCom
• Drills Manual – Rory Miller
• Jack Hoban and Robert Humphrey’s works

2. Violence Dynamics

• Facing Violence
• Logic of Violence
• Drills Manual
• Marc’s work on the stages of violent crime
• Teja’s Mommy and Me CDs

3. Prevention

• Facing Violence
• ConCom
• Verbal Judo
• The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense

4. Counter-Assault

• Facing Violence
• Tony Blauer

5. The Freeze

• Facing Violence
• The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley
• Deep Survival

6. The Fight

• Marc’s book on Street E&E
• Facing Violence

7. The Aftermath

• ACLDN
• Facing Violence (Book and DVD)
• In the Name of Self-Defense
• Achilles in Vietnam
• The Psychological First Aid Handbook

Teaching

• Drills Manual – Rory Miller
• Training at the Speed of Life

Resource Links

• The Unthinkable
• Deep Survival
• Please Understand Me
• Verbal Judo
• The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
• Axchillies in Vietnam
• Psychological First Aid
• Red Cross First Aid Handbook