What can you expect in a Self Defense Instructor Certification Course?

Our 2025 certification course schedule is live!

We've updated our certification course to an all in-person experience, and we've just posted our 2025 certification course schedule on our Training Calendar!

What can you expect in a Pretty Deadly Instructor Certification course?

DAY 1:
Your certification course kicks off with a Pretty Deadly Master Class, so you get to experience first-hand the transformative power of the Pretty Deadly Program. This is also. great chance to get to know your course-mates: it's the MAKE FRIENDS part of Pretty Deadly Self Defense :)

DAY 2:
Your morning starts with a short movement practice to wake up our brains and connect to our bodies, and get ready for a deep dive into the theory and science behind Pretty Deadly, the biology of self defense.

After a quick lunch break, the afternoon is all movement: you'll go over the techniques and exercises you learned in the Master Class, and the methodology to effectively teach them to your clients.

DAY 3:
Your day starts with a quick mobility workout, and then moving into trauma awareness, trauma support and safety protocols. Morning sessions also include soft leadership skills to ensure safe boundaries for trainers too.

Your afternoon reviews all techniques and exercises, while you and your cohort colloborate to design a 1-hour self defense workshop you'll be delivering the same evening.

Your day winds up by deliving your 1-hour workshop to the public as part of your teaching assessment.

DAY 4:
Your final day of your certification course begins with sharing movement and warm-up practices with the group. Your morning concludes with a review of best business practices, resources and support to make sure you have all the tools you need to teach self defense to your community.

Your certification course wraps with a short ceremony awarding every trainer who successfully completes the course with an accredited Pretty Deadly Self Defense Instructor certificate, valid for 2 years.

Your self defense instructor certification course fee includes a printed course manual that is yours to keep, class and workshop templates, and access to the Pretty Deadly library for PARQ, liability and registration forms, technique library, and other resources. Training equipment provided on site.