The most important personal safety skills that we want women to practice include
- Assessing the person’s behavior and being aware of potential danger signs
- Getting centered to calm themselves down so that they can think clearly and make safer choices instead of panicking or escalating the argument
- Protecting themselves emotionally rather than being triggered or coerced by the mean things someone says to them,
- Using verbal self-defense tactics to defuse a potentially violent interaction
- Protecting themselves physically without fighting back
- Creating a safety plan for how to leave and for how to get help