RADAR™ for IPV
WHY RADAR™ IS ESSENTIAL?
To help people affected by IPV build awareness, regulation, and practical safety readiness while staying connected to professional and community support.
Vision
Participants first learn grounding, awareness, and assessment before action. When appropriate, they practise simple body-safety skills: safer positioning, body protection, breakfall basics, safe get-up, disengagement, and escape-readiness.
How Radar™ Works
RADAR™ for IPV teaches trauma-informed safety readiness so participants can recognize risk earlier, protect the body, assess before action, create space when possible, and reconnect to help.
Mission
Many survivors receive support and safety planning, but still may not know what to do in the first critical moments of fear, freezing, falling, or needing to move. RADAR™ fills that practical safety-readiness gap while complementing existing support services.
Why Radar™
RADAR™ is more than self-defence. It is a trauma-informed personal safety program that helps people affected by IPV build awareness, regulation, body protection, safer decision-making, and escape-readiness while staying connected to professional support.
RADAR™ Stands For:
Recognize. Notice early signs of risk in your surroundings, body signals, and changing situations.
Avoid. Reduce unnecessary danger by choosing safer distance, timing, positioning, and exits.
De-escalate. Use calm posture, clear boundaries, and lower-risk communication when it is safe to do so.
Assess Before Action. Pause, regulate, scan the situation, and choose the safest next step instead of reacting from fear or panic.
Respond & Reconnect. Move toward safety, seek support, report when appropriate, and recover with clarity.
RADAR™ for IPV helps participants build awareness, nervous-system capacity, body protection, safer decision-making, and escape-readiness while staying connected to professional and community support.
How RADAR™ for IPV Is Delivered Safely
RADAR™ for IPV is delivered through a careful, trauma-informed process that prioritizes choice, emotional safety, and participant readiness. The program does not use aggressive simulation, forced disclosure, or pressure-based training. Participants are supported to learn at a pace that respects their nervous system, current safety situation, and personal comfort level.
1. Safety First
Every session begins with clear boundaries, consent, grounding, and the option to observe or pause at any time.
2. No Forced Sharing
Participants are never required to disclose personal stories or relive traumatic experiences.
3. Assessment Before Movement
Physical practice is introduced only when appropriate, and always after grounding, awareness, and readiness are established.
4. Support Connection
RADAR™ reinforces connection to shelter services, counselling, crisis support, safety planning, and professional care.
The goal is not to make participants “fight back.” The goal is to help them feel safer, clearer, more prepared, and better connected to support.
Meet Our Instructors
Rick, H.
Active Law Enforcement
-Teaches defence to active law enforcement.
John, L.
Chief Instructor
-Over 15 years of experience in investigation, surveillance, and personal safety.
