In the Media

After 30 years of providing free and accessible empowerment self-defence training to girls, women and members of the LGBTTQIA+ community...

Our kaiarahi, Roxy Coervers and one of our kaiako, Vivian Chandra were guests on the Guilty Feminist Podcast! Episode 288 Power through...

Two years of ongoing and occasionally prolonged lockdowns are taking their toll on women in relationships and their children. Family...

Instilling confidence in our 7 and 8 year old girls. On Monday and Wednesday the Year three and four girls from the Middle Syndicate went...

Fasten your seat-belts and hold onto your tits, this episode we’re talking all about safety. What did we learn about safety when we were...

A New Zealand self-defence network is seeking more funding after a large increase in demand for classes. The Women's Self-Defence Network...

The Christchurch mosque attacks have sharply highlighted issues faced by New Zealand's Islam community. Both before and after the...

The Women’s Self-Defence Network Wahine Toa hosted a free self defence session for refugee and migrant women and other marginalised...

Ending a violent relationship requires courage, planning and support, writes Bell Murphy. From the day they are born, girls are told to...

One of our wonderful kaiako, Bell Murphy, has been published in this amazing edited collection of essays which explores the meaning of...

A group of women keen on teaching girls self defence have descended on Invercargill as the city plays host to a Women's Self Defence...

There will be a one-day Mothers and Daughters self-defence workshop in North East Valley on March 11th, taught by Bell Murphy, an...

The girls from Year Ten classes 10L and 10M were given the important opportunity to take a girls self defence course for the whole day on...

As investments go, self-defence courses cost little, and have been proven to offer real protection against sexual assault or violence....

Tackling the "complex issue'' of sexual violence was the aim of agencies that attended a workshop at the Edgar Centre on Thursday. About...

Ana Pereira teaches self defence in Invercargill, once used her skills in a home invasion, as says the skills could save your life....

Women of the Otago Peninsula have an opportunity to take part in a free self-defence class next month. The class is being run by an...

Self Defence courses help victims of violence to live without fear A self protection programme for female victims of domestic violence...

Spectrum's Jack Perkins records at a self defence course for 11 to 13 year-old girls at Wellington's Holy Cross school. In 2011 alone,...