Acts of Resistance is a program hosted by the Community Safety Office in collaboration with the SGDO for LGBTQ+ community members to heighten their sense of self-trust and awareness of their environment.  This workshop offers participants an opportunity to discuss personal safety issues and to practice easy to learn, easy to remember self-defense techniques.  The workshop reinforces the positive aspects of the way participants confront the threat of fear and violence in their lives.

Contact: CSO Events at cso.events@utoronto.ca for further information or accessibility needs.

About the Facilitator:

Shaiden Keaney MSW, RSW (xe/she/they) works to prevent trauma and heal its impacts through self-defence and psychotherapy practices. Each participant in one of Shaiden's workshops and courses becomes part of a broader community that is healing harm in order to build more just and loving connections with each other. Shaiden is certified as a self-defence instructor with Wen-Do Women's Self-Defence and Acts of Resistance, and has been practicing in this capacity since 2015.