Women's Self-Defence and Empowerment Community Workshop

Firstly, know you are welcome here, always. This is your warm invitation to come home to your power.

“If you didn’t fear fear, what would you do? How would your life feel?”

This community‑based workshop is designed to help women reconnect with their bodies, gently observe current beliefs and thought patterns around fear and self‑defence, and recognise their innate capability, all within the safety of a like‑minded community.

This gentle and immersive experience offers an opportunity to understand your natural fear response to perceived threats in your environment: physical, social and emotional. With this awareness, we’ll explore how to establish a new relationship with fear and examine the beliefs that may be limiting us in life, particularly those contributing to a perceived inability to protect ourselves.

Following the theoretical and reflective components, you’ll be guided to embody the practice through practical self‑defence strategies, accessible for all bodies, real‑world applicable, and offering immediate safety and self‑protection solutions using your natural reflexes. We’ll close with a grounding breathwork practice to gently integrate the learnings.

Come once, or return as often as you wish. You’re part of a supportive community where the door is always open, and you only need to arrive as you are.

Across the afternoon, you’ll explore how the mind and body respond to stress and fear, learn simple nervous‑system‑supportive tools, and be introduced to the foundational principles of the SPEAR self‑defence system: a practical, behaviour‑based approach that helps you lead your own defence using your inbuilt capabilities.

No experience needed. Accessible to all bodies, ages, skill levels and fitness levels.

This workshop is warm, supportive, low‑pressure and mindfully facilitated. You’ll leave feeling more grounded, confident and connected, with real‑world skills you can apply immediately.

Contribution: Pay‑what‑you‑feel after the event. No cost to join us. All proceeds support 4Voices, a not‑for‑profit organisation providing connection, conversation and essential support for women experiencing social isolation, homelessness, domestic violence or digital disconnection. Their mission: ensuring no woman feels unheard or alone.

Location: Salk Oval, Sarawak Ave, Palm Beach QLD 4221, Australia (Palm Beach Scout Den)
Time: 12:00pm – 4:00pm
Wear: Comfortable clothing; enclosed shoes or barefoot
Bring: Water bottle, notebook + pen, an open mind + open heart
Facilities: Public car park at 59 West Burleigh Rd. Toilets onsite. Tea, coffee and nibblies provided.

Facilitators:

Marcus Burgess: Security Consultant, Personal Trainer & lifelong martial artist (SPEAR, Kalah, Ninjutsu, Zen Do Kai, Muay Thai).

Ash Rainbow: Accredited Exercise Physiologist, Behavioural Scientist, Rehabilitation Consultant, Integrative Health Clinician & Yoga Teacher.

Our Why: To empower our community to feel safer, stronger and liberated in mind and body - to live the life you deserve.

We’re so looking forward to sharing this space with you. Register your spot (we cap groups at 15). Bring a friend. Share with anyone you feel would benefit. Sorry blokes, this one is just for women this time.

We are honoured to hold these workshops quarterly. If this one isn’t your moment, you’re welcome at the next. You’ll know when the time is right for you.

See you then. X