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ACT Program

ACT For Women

Duration1 to 3 days
DeliveryOn site, worldwide

ACT for Women is a comprehensive, confidence building personal security program designed specifically for women who want practical, real world skills to stay safe, prepared, and empowered in their daily lives, during travel, and in crisis situations. As part of the Awareness and Counterthreat Training (ACT) Program, this course combines foundational security principles with immersive hands on training to help women cultivate a proactive safety mindset.

Students observing a ground defense demonstration during an ACT course

Take control of your personal safety.

What it covers

Inside the course

Participants learn how to sharpen their situational awareness, recognize early indicators of danger, understand behavioral baselines, identify anomalies, and make rapid, informed decisions under pressure. The training also introduces effective techniques for disengaging from unsafe encounters and creating safe exit strategies. A key component of ACT for Women focuses on travel safety and preparing participants to operate confidently in unfamiliar places at home and abroad. Women learn how to plan and prepare for travel, maintain personal security during transit, and protect themselves in hotels, temporary lodging, and public spaces.

The curriculum includes guidance on wayfinding, urban navigation, and assessing surroundings in new locations, as well as strategies for responding to a variety of multi threat scenarios such as active shooters, bombings, fires, crowd surges, and suspicious or escalating behavior. Participants also explore Everyday Carry (EDC) options tailored for women, incorporating discreet and practical tools for improved preparedness, and learn how to use improvised items as defensive tools when escape is not immediately possible. Additional modules address counter isolation and restraint defeat techniques, equipping women with skills that enhance survivability in high risk or coercive situations.

Another major element of the course is the dynamic medical training module, built on Videre’s proprietary rapid trauma assessment system. This training teaches women how to stabilize life threatening injuries when medical assistance is delayed or unavailable. Through clear, accessible instruction, participants learn essential trauma care skills including bleeding control, airway management, shock mitigation, and high stress medical decision making.

Realistic, instructor led medical scenarios help reinforce these skills and ensure women feel confident applying them during shelter in place events, natural disasters, violent incidents, or other emergencies. Consistent with Videre’s “learn it once, use it for life” philosophy, this training emphasizes durable skill retention and readiness. ACT for Women is taught through a combination of classroom learning and immersive, scenario based exercises designed to replicate real world conditions.

Participants practice their skills in controlled conditions that simulate travel hazards, interpersonal threats, emergency medical situations, and other high stress encounters. This approach builds genuine confidence, strengthens instincts, and helps women develop the ability to act decisively when faced with dynamic, unpredictable situations. Instruction is delivered by highly experienced professionals with backgrounds in military operations, law enforcement, executive protection, crisis response, and tactical medicine, ensuring that the training is informed by real world expertise and tailored to women’s practical needs.

This course is ideal for women of all ages and backgrounds like professionals, students, travelers, mothers, outdoor enthusiasts, or anyone seeking greater personal security and self reliance. Whether at home, at work, in public settings, or abroad, participants leave ACT for Women equipped with the mindset, skills, and confidence needed to protect themselves and others, navigate threats effectively, and respond to emergencies with clarity and strength.

The Risk Mitigation Process

Four steps, taught the same way every time

Every ACT program teaches the same underlying process. What changes between courses is the situation it is applied to.

01

Situational Awareness

Establish what normal looks like where you actually are.

02

Informed Awareness

Turn that baseline into a working understanding of the threats most probable to you.

03

Planned Response

Decide what you will do about those threats before the moment you need to do it.

04

Bias for Action

Move on the 70 percent solution using rapid decision making rather than waiting for certainty.

How it is taught
Every ACT course is taught by a team of instructors with backgrounds in military special operations, law enforcement, protective services, tactical medicine and crisis response. Classroom instruction is paired with scenario based exercises so participants apply the method under pressure rather than only hearing about it.

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