Practical Self Defense Workshop

This isn’t about walking with confidence. Or yelling “fire.” This is adult self defense — built for women who know the world isn’t always safe, and want real tools to navigate it anyway.

Whether you’ve trained before or never set foot in a class like this, you’ll leave knowing:

• How to read a room (and a street)
• How to move through threat
• What to do when adrenaline hits

No macho drills. No victim narrative. No fluff.

Just strategy, movement, and the body literacy most of us were never taught.

For: Women and nonbinary adults, all fitness levels welcome, ages 18+ only

What to wear: Clothes you can move in. Shoes optional.

Susie Kahlich is the founder of Pretty Deadly Self Defense, a user-friendly self defense system she developed based on her experience as a violent crime survivor, solo female traveler, and her 25 years of martial arts training. She is certified in DV awareness and support from University of Sheffield, and trained in CBT.Susie has been teaching self defense since 2009 across the US and Europe, and has worked with violent crime survivors, trauma victims and refugee and immigrant communities on three different continents and in multiple cities around the world. She has given seminars and private workplace consultations on sexual harassment policies for tech start-ups, corporate media, co-working spaces , thinktanks and blockchain companies in Europe and the UK, and has been an invited speaker at TechStars Berlin, UN Women, and GoDaddy Women in Tech EMEA. Susie launched Pretty Deadly Self Defense as a social impact venture in Berlin in 2016, and has scaled the program across 5 countries, and is the first women's self defense trainer certification program to be accredited by governing sports bodies such as NASM, AFAA, ISSA and CIMSPA.