Civilian Tactical Training for Every Environment, Every Threat, Every Person
Every student begins here. Threat Detection and Fear Management are the two non-negotiable gateway courses — they build the perceptual and psychological foundation that every other skill in this catalog depends on. Complete those two and the entire catalog unlocks.
Threat Detection Principles
Read people, environments, and behavioral cues before a threat materializes. OODA Loop, Cooper's Color Code, BAD Principle, and full 360 situational awareness. The perceptual lens through which every other course is taught.
Fear Management
Recognize fear's physiological signatures, interrupt the freeze response, and convert raw adrenaline into controlled, decisive action. The psychological backbone of everything that follows.
Threat Detection Principles GATEWAY
Read people and environments before a threat ever forms.
Fear Management GATEWAY
Control fear and convert adrenaline into decisive action.
Personal Defense Principles & Concepts
Flinch reflex, hand to hand, and weapons — your physical foundation.
Home Invasion Survival
Door-breach response, safe-room protocol, and family coordination.
Stalking in the Modern World
Detect surveillance, disrupt a fixated threat, reclaim your pattern of life.
Grabs, Chokes & Escape Fundamentals
Survive the clinch when someone already has their hands on you.
Improvised Weaponry & Everyday Carry
Everything around you is a tool — pepper spray, pen, flashlight, environment.
Edged Weapon Awareness
Recognize it, deflect it, survive it — the discipline of distance.
Firearm Awareness & Survival Concepts
What to do when a gun is in the room. A survival course, not a shooting course.
Street Ju Jitsu Principles
Leverage and physics to deny dominance and return to your feet.
Online Safety & Surveillance Awareness
Your digital life is a physical threat vector — close the open doors.
Integrated Active Shooter Survival 101
Run · Hide · Plan · Fight — the capstone that ties Year One together.
Parking lots. Public transit. Restaurants. Sidewalks at night. These courses build your personal defense framework from the ground up — no martial arts background assumed, no athletic prerequisite.
Personal Defense Principles & Concepts
Convert your natural flinch reflex into a trained response. Hand to hand, weapons, and the physical techniques that work under pressure for every age and fitness level.
Grabs, Chokes & Escape Fundamentals
Body-change escapes, hand-crank defenses, the hand whip, falling safely, and rapidly returning to your feet.
Improvised Weaponry & Everyday Carry
Improvise weapons from your environment. Deploy pepper spray effectively. Apply everyday objects as force multipliers. You are never truly unarmed.
Edged Weapon Awareness
Blade recognition, defensive blocks, and deflection fundamentals. The geometry of distance and the first three seconds of response that determine survival.
Firearm Awareness & Survival Concepts
Not a shooting course — a survival course. What to do before, during, and after a firearm enters your environment.
Ground Survival & Recovery
Escaping and standing up using leverage and physics. Deny an attacker dominance and return to your feet fast where your options multiply.
Stalking Detection & Disruption
Pattern-of-life mapping, route variation, digital-footprint hygiene, and the operational protocols for documenting and disrupting a fixated threat.
Personal Safety for Teens & Young Adults
Campus environments, rideshare safety, party and social-setting awareness, and the peer-pressure dynamics that erode good judgment.
Public Transit & Travel Safety
Situational awareness in confined and crowded transit environments. Positioning, exit awareness, and response protocols for being trapped in motion with strangers.
Vehicle & Carjacking Survival
Approach awareness, carjacking pre-indicators, using the vehicle as a weapon and a shield, and the decision logic for when to drive, comply, or fight.
Women's Personal Safety
The specific threat patterns, attack vectors, and predator behaviors most commonly directed at women. Practical, empowering, built on real-world scenarios.
Nightlife, Bars & Social Settings
Crowded, low-visibility, alcohol-affected environments. Drink awareness, group protocols, exit positioning, and de-escalation in social settings.
Your home is your fortress — and also the environment where you are most exposed and most likely to freeze. These courses cover the scenarios most families refuse to plan for.
Home Invasion Survival
Door-breach response, safe-room protocol, family coordination under stress, and the pre-decided actions that execute when there is no time left to think.
Family Emergency Action Planning
Rally points, communication protocols when phones fail, age-appropriate roles for children, and the psychological rehearsal that prevents freeze.
Protecting Children — Awareness & Response
Child-specific threat recognition, predator behavioral patterns, and the conversations parents need to have before an incident rather than after.
Securing the Home Environment
Entry-point assessment, lighting and visibility, layered deterrence, and the low-cost measures that make your home a harder target.
Protecting Aging & Vulnerable Family Members
Scam and fraud recognition, mobility-limited escape planning, and the dignity-preserving conversations that keep loved ones safe.
Domestic Threat & Personal-Relationship Safety
Recognizing escalation in personal relationships and the protocols for protecting yourself when the threat comes from inside.
Neighborhood & Community Awareness
Reading your neighborhood's baseline, recognizing anomalies, coordinating with neighbors, and the habits that make an entire block a harder target.
Run to Hide to Plan to Fight is not a slogan — it is a decision framework drawn from thousands of documented incidents. Recognize pre-attack indicators, build your action plan, and execute decisive response in the seconds that separate survival from tragedy.
Active Shooter Survival — Foundations
The complete Run-Hide-Plan-Fight framework. Recognize pre-attack indicators before the first shot and make survivable decisions in the first sixty seconds.
Developing Your Active Shooter Emergency Plan
Translate the framework into a location-specific plan. Pre-decided exits, roles, rally points, and reunification protocols you can actually execute under fire.
Improvised Defense During an Active Threat
When running and hiding are no longer options. Improvised barricades, weapons, team coordination, and the decision logic for transitioning to active resistance.
Recognizing the Pre-Attack Profile
Active shooters leave a trail. Behavioral indicators, communication patterns, and the reporting protocols that have stopped incidents before they began.
Post-Event Trauma Care — The First 10 Minutes
Tourniquet application, wound packing, airway management, and the calm decision-making that saves lives before paramedics arrive.
Mass Crowd Incident Management
Crowd crush, stampede dynamics, and survival protocols for high-density venues. Move with and against a panicking crowd and keep family anchored to you.
Active Threat Survival for Schools & Campuses
Classroom barricade, campus geography under threat, reunification protocols, and the preparation that empowers rather than terrifies.
Active Threat Survival for Houses of Worship
Faith communities face a distinct threat profile. Congregation awareness, safety-team coordination, and response planning that protects an open door without closing it.
Vehicle-Ramming & Edged-Weapon Mass Attacks
Recognition and survival for mass-casualty events in public spaces — the response framework for attacks that unfold differently than an active shooter.
Grocery chains, big-box retail, pharmacies, convenience stores, gas stations. Built specifically for customer-facing teams — from the floor associate to the store manager.
Threat Detection for Retail Environments
Read the floor before an incident starts. Behavioral cues signaling a shoplifting escalation turning violent, robbery pre-indicators, and environmental awareness.
Robbery Survival for Retail Teams
Most retail robberies follow patterns. What robbers want, how events escalate, compliance protocols that keep people alive, and memory techniques for witness intelligence.
De-escalation on the Retail Floor
Verbal techniques, body positioning, and the communication tools that cool an escalating customer before security or police are needed.
Active Shooter Survival — Retail Edition
Run-Hide-Plan-Fight applied to retail geometry — multiple public entrances, stockrooms, loading docks, and a customer population you are partly responsible for.
Workplace Violence Prevention for Retail Managers
Recognize behavioral warning signs, build a prevention culture, establish reporting channels, and develop the written response plan your store executes when prevention fails.
Fear Management for Customer-Facing Teams
The cumulative psychological toll of public-facing work. Resilience protocols that keep front-line workers sharp and regulated across a full career.
Emergency Response for Retail Locations
When the incident is underway and help is minutes out. Coordinating staff and customers and the trauma-care basics that bridge the gap until EMS arrives.
Parking Lot & Perimeter Safety
The retail parking lot is where a disproportionate share of incidents occur. Approach awareness, escort protocols, and closing-time procedures.
Open-plan offices, conference rooms, parking structures, corporate campuses. This vertical brings threat awareness and decisive response capability into the workplace — for everyone from the analyst to the C-suite.
Threat Detection in Professional Environments
Behavioral red flags in colleagues, visitors, and vendors. The early-warning indicators that precede most workplace violence.
Workplace Violence Prevention for Managers
Prevention, early intervention, response, and post-incident recovery. Includes termination-safety protocols and documentation discipline.
Active Shooter Survival — Corporate Edition
Floor plans, stairwells, conference-room barricade, and badge-controlled chokepoints. Run-Hide-Plan-Fight for the corporate environment.
De-escalation in Professional Settings
Defusing volatile interpersonal situations — heated meetings, performance confrontations, client aggression, and domestic situations that follow an employee to work.
Executive Travel Safety
Domestic and international travel threat assessment. Pattern-of-life awareness on the road, hotel and ground-transport security, situational protocols in unfamiliar cities.
Fear Management for the Professional Workplace
Maintaining composure, clear thinking, and decisive action during a workplace crisis when colleagues are looking to you.
Emergency Response for Office Environments
Floor wardens, evacuation versus shelter, communicating with building security, and the trauma-care basics that save lives before EMS reaches an upper floor.
Developing a Tactical Mindset for Professionals
The perceptual and decision-making framework that turns an ordinary professional into a threat-aware operator — applicable every day, in every environment.
Corporate Online & Social Media Safety
Social-engineering recognition, staff and executive footprint reduction, and the link between online exposure and workplace targeting.
Bank branches, credit unions, and financial-service centers operate in a uniquely high-risk environment: cash on hand, fixed layouts, public access, and direct teller-facing exposure.
Threat Detection for Branch Environments
Pre-robbery behavioral indicators and the teller-level awareness that buys the critical seconds which change a robbery's outcome.
Robbery Behavior & Survival Protocols
Note-pass versus takeover dynamics, what robbers want, and the compliance and memory techniques that protect staff while producing actionable intelligence.
De-escalation in Financial Service Environments
Loan denials, account freezes, fraud confrontations, and the desperation that money disputes can trigger — techniques tuned to financial services.
Active Shooter Survival — Banking Edition
Run-Hide-Plan-Fight applied to branch geometry, with the overlap between robbery and active-shooter scenarios unique to financial institutions.
Workplace Violence Prevention for Branch Leadership
Build a branch prevention culture and develop the emergency action plan your branch executes under duress.
Managing Fear During Active Robbery Events
Cognitive control under a direct threat, compliance decision logic, and the actions that reduce the chance of escalation to violence.
Emergency Response for Financial Institutions
Securing the scene, accounting for staff and customers, working with arriving responders during and after a branch incident.
Branch Threat & Vulnerability Assessment
Identify vulnerability gaps, evaluate physical-security measures, assess teller-line and entry exposure, and build the prioritized hardening plan.
Cash-in-Transit & Off-Site Risk Awareness
Deposit transport, ATM servicing exposure, and the off-site moments when staff and cash are most vulnerable to a targeted approach.
Energy operations, field crews, remote worksites, and industrial facilities far from help. Built for the realities of the field — where the nearest backup may be forty-five minutes away.
Threat Detection for Remote & Field Environments
Behavioral threat cues in low-population settings, vehicle and approach recognition on access roads, and environmental scanning for remote operations.
Violence Prevention for Field Teams
Managing high-stress crew dynamics and the intervention protocols that prevent escalation before it turns physical in an environment without immediate response.
De-escalation in Field & Industrial Settings
Defusing conflict among crews, contractors, and on-site visitors in high-stress, high-stakes field conditions.
Active Threat Survival — Field & Industrial Edition
Recognition, response, and the decision framework for sprawling industrial layouts and lone-worker positions far from support.
Emergency Response Without Backup
First-responder decision logic, field trauma care for serious injury, and the crisis-management framework for isolated incidents far from support.
Fear Management for Isolated & High-Risk Work
Managing the psychological pressure of lone-worker and remote-site conditions and sustaining vigilance across long shifts.
Site Security & Access Control Fundamentals
Perimeter awareness, access-control principles, vehicle screening, and the behavioral protocols that protect a worksite from unauthorized entry.
Executive & Site-Leadership Protection
Threat awareness and personal-protection protocols for site managers and executives operating in high-risk field environments.
Lone-Worker Safety Protocols
Check-in discipline, vehicle and approach awareness, distress-signaling, and the self-reliant response framework for the worker with no one nearby.
Hospitals, clinics, emergency departments, and care facilities have become some of the highest-violence workplaces in the country. Built for nurses, technicians, front-desk staff, and security.
Threat Detection in Healthcare Settings
Behavioral escalation indicators in waiting rooms, emergency departments, and patient rooms, tuned to the high-emotion reality of care environments.
Managing Aggressive Patients & Visitors
De-escalation for pain, fear, grief, intoxication, and mental-health crisis. Techniques that protect both the caregiver and the patient.
Workplace Violence Prevention for Healthcare Teams
Build a prevention culture in a setting where violence is too often accepted as part of the job.
Active Threat Survival — Healthcare Edition
Non-ambulatory patients, open access, and a workforce that cannot simply run. Run-Hide-Plan-Fight adapted to patient-care realities.
Fear Management for Caregivers
Sustaining composure and decisive action under the chronic stress of patient care. Fear management for those whose job is to stay calm when others cannot.
Emergency Response in Care Facilities
Lockdown versus evacuation logic, staff roles, and the trauma-care discipline when an incident unfolds among vulnerable, mobility-limited populations.
Schools and campuses carry a duty to protect the people least able to protect themselves. Built for teachers, administrators, campus staff, students, and the parents who send their children through the doors every morning.
Threat Detection for School & Campus Staff
Pre-attack indicators, concerning-behavior reporting, and the awareness culture that intervenes before a crisis.
Active Threat Survival — Education Edition
Classroom barricade, campus geography under threat, lockdown discipline, and the decision framework for educators responsible for a room full of children.
De-escalation in Educational Settings
Heated conferences, disciplinary confrontations, and custody-related tensions that follow students to school.
Emergency Response for Schools
Accounting for students, working with arriving responders, and the trauma-care basics that save young lives before EMS arrives on a locked-down campus.
Safety Awareness for Students & Young Adults
Campus situational awareness, social-setting safety, rideshare and dorm protocols scaled for a young person's real environment.
Workplace Violence Prevention for School Leadership
Building a prevention culture, threat-assessment teams, reporting pathways, and response planning for administrators and district leaders.
Social Media & Online Safety for Students
Predator and grooming recognition, cyberbullying, sextortion awareness, privacy lockdown, and digital-footprint discipline. Built for students, parents, and educators.
Hotels, restaurants, bars, stadiums, theaters, and event venues. Built for hospitality and venue teams — front desk, floor, security, and management — tuned to the open-door, high-volume reality of public-facing venues.
Threat Detection for Hospitality Environments
Read guests, patrons, and crowds for the behavioral indicators that precede an incident in high-traffic public venues.
De-escalation for Hospitality & Venue Staff
Cool the confrontations that ignite in bars, restaurants, hotels, and events — intoxication, disputes, refusals of service, and crowd friction.
Active Threat Survival — Public Venue Edition
Run-Hide-Plan-Fight applied to stadiums, theaters, ballrooms, and event spaces. Crowd movement under panic and staff coordination.
Crowd Management & Event Safety
Crowd dynamics, capacity awareness, entry and exit control, and the protocols that prevent a gathering from turning into a crush.
Workplace Violence Prevention for Hospitality Teams
Recognize warning signs in guests and staff, build a prevention culture in a high-turnover environment, and develop the response plan your venue executes under pressure.
Emergency Response for Public Venues
Guest and staff accountability, communication with responders, and trauma-care basics for mass-gathering environments.
Threats begin online long before they reach your door. Social media safety for kids, teens, and adults; scams, fraud, and identity theft; surveillance and tracking; and the family plans that tie it all together.
Online Safety & Digital Footprint Hygiene
Audit and reduce your footprint, understand what attackers can learn about you, and close the open doors that turn online information into physical risk.
Surveillance Detection & Counter-Surveillance
Recognize when you are being watched or followed, on foot and in vehicles. Pattern-of-life awareness and surveillance-detection routes.
Being Followed — Detection & Response Protocols
Confirmation techniques, safe-haven routing, the decisions that break a follow, and how to document and report without escalating the encounter.
Protecting Your Family's Digital Presence
Social-media discipline, location-sharing risks, and the family protocols that close the gaps attackers exploit through children, spouses, and aging relatives.
Digital Safety for Executives & Public Figures
Doxxing awareness, executive footprint reduction, threat-monitoring basics, and the digital hygiene that protects leadership and their families.
Anti-Kidnapping & Abduction Awareness
Recognition, prevention, and survival across the abduction timeline — for adults and children, at home and while traveling.
Social Media Safety for Kids & Teens
Grooming and predator recognition, sextortion awareness, location and photo exposure, privacy lockdown, and the conversations that keep young people safe online.
Social Media Safety for Adults
Oversharing risk, romance and financial scams, account-takeover defense, and the privacy discipline that closes the doors attackers use against adults.
Cyberbullying & Online Harassment
Recognition, response, and recovery for targeted harassment online. Documentation, escalation pathways, platform tools, and supporting someone under sustained attack.
Protecting Kids Online — A Parent's Playbook
Device and app rules, age-appropriate monitoring, the warning signs of grooming or distress, and the family agreements that make online safety a habit.
Scam, Fraud & Identity-Theft Defense
Phishing and impersonation, financial and romance fraud, elder-targeted scams, identity-theft prevention, and the response steps that limit damage when you are hit.
Family Digital Safety Plan
Shared device hygiene, account and password discipline, location-sharing rules, and a coordinated family protocol that everyone understands and follows.
The category nearly every self-defense program skips entirely. Police interaction, use-of-force standards, witness statements, documentation, civil exposure, and the legal process that follows a violent event. Legal education, not legal advice.
Understanding the Use-of-Force Continuum
What justifies force, what crosses into excessive force, and how the legal system evaluates your split-second decisions in slow-motion hindsight.
Police Interaction After a Violent Event
What to say, what not to say, and how to conduct yourself in the immediate aftermath of a defensive incident. The first-responder interaction shapes your legal outcome.
Documenting a Threat Incident
Memory is the first casualty of stress and adrenaline. Documentation protocols — written, photographic, and witness-based — that preserve an accurate incident record.
Understanding the Legal Process After Self-Defense
From incident report to grand jury to potential trial. What each stage looks like, your rights at each step, and how to work effectively with a defense attorney.
Civil Liability & Self-Defense
Criminal prosecution is not the only legal risk. Civil-liability exposure after a self-defense incident — what it is, when it applies, and the practices that protect you.
Legal Considerations for Weapons & Everyday Carry
The legal landscape around carrying and using defensive tools — from pepper spray to knives to firearms. Jurisdictional variation, transport, and storage.
For students who want to go beyond personal capability and lead — building safety programs for their organization, coordinating teams in a crisis, or teaching others. Completion of foundational courses and substantial program experience expected before entering this track.
Fundamentals of Safety Program Instruction
Learn to teach the material. Instructional methodology, scenario design, drilling technique under stress, and the standards that produce competent students rather than checked boxes.
Designing Customized Training Programs
Build a threat-awareness and response program tailored to a specific organization, industry, or environment. Needs assessment, curriculum mapping, behavior change.
Building & Leading Crisis-Response Teams
Roles, communication discipline, drilling cadence, and the leadership that holds a team together when an incident is unfolding in real time.
Communication & Leadership in High-Stakes Environments
Command presence, clear direction under chaos, and the communication that moves people to act when fear wants them frozen.
Collaborative Threat Assessment
Structured, team-based threat assessment for an organization or facility. The coordinated process that identifies and manages a concerning situation before it escalates.
Crisis Management Fundamentals
Lead through the full arc of a crisis — before, during, and after. Decision-making under uncertainty, resource coordination, and the after-action discipline that turns one incident into organizational learning.
Threat Detection and Fear Management are the required gateway — once complete, the entire catalog opens to you. From there, you choose your path.
Certify
Complete the full 12-course certification track and earn your CMAA Tactical credential.
Explore
Take individual courses across any category in any order that fits your life, your role, or your industry.
Build Custom
Work with our team to design a training program built specifically for your organization, team, or environment.