Every girl deserves to feel
confident, aware, and safe.
Girl Aware workshops are designed to equip participants with practical, real-world personal safety skills in a supportive and engaging environment. Each program is tailored to suit the needs of your school, organisation, or group.
Upcoming Experiences
Learn Self-defence
Feel Safer. Feel Stronger. Feel More Confident.
Join us for a practical, empowering 2-hour Self-defence Workshop designed to help women and girls build confidence, increase personal safety awareness, and learn simple, effective skills they can use in everyday life.
In a supportive and welcoming environment, you’ll explore real-world personal safety strategies, danger-prevention techniques, and easy-to-learn self-defense skills through practical activities and open discussion.
This isn’t about being the strongest person in the room. It’s about becoming more aware, prepared, and confident in your ability to respond when something doesn’t feel right.
What you'll learn
Practical personal safety and awareness strategies
Ways to recognise and respond to potentially unsafe situations
Simple, effective self-defense techniques
How to build confidence in your own instincts and abilities
Strategies you can take with you into everyday life
What to expect: No previous self-defense experience is needed. Our workshops are designed to be supportive, respectful, and empowering, with plenty of opportunity to learn, practise, ask questions, and have fun.
Light refreshments are included, giving everyone a chance to connect and enjoy the experience together.
What to wear: Comfortable clothing suitable for light physical activity and movement.
Who can attend: The workshop is suitable for a range of ages. Participants under 14 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Come with an open mind and a willingness to participate—you’ll leave with practical skills, greater awareness and more confidence in yourself and your personal safety.
Ready to feel safer, stronger and more confident? Book your place today.
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Tomaree Library
7 Community Close Salamander Bay
Sunday 27th September 2026
9.30am-11.30am
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Future Locations
We’re working on delivering more of our ‘Learn Self-defence’ workshops.
Keep an eye out for a location near you, or request a location below.
4-Week Personal Safety Program
How confident are you that you'd know what to do if something went wrong?
Personal safety isn't about living in fear or expecting danger around every corner. It's about being aware, trusting your instincts and knowing you have options when something doesn't feel right.
The Girl Aware 4-Week Personal Safety Program gives you the opportunity to go beyond a one-off workshop and really develop practical skills, awareness, and confidence over four progressive sessions.
Across the four weeks, you'll learn how to recognise potential danger earlier, create distance, use your voice, and respond confidently when something doesn't feel right. You'll also progressively learn practical self-defence and escape techniques, including how to protect yourself if you find yourself on the ground.
We'll also explore your own fears and personal safety goals, giving you the opportunity to recognise where you'd like to feel more confident and see how that changes throughout the program.
With plenty of practical training, real-life discussion and a supportive group of women learning alongside you, you'll have the opportunity to practise, ask questions and build on your skills each week.
No previous experience or level of fitness is required.
What you’ll learn:
Week 1 — Awareness & Mindset: Understand your personal fears, set your goals, build situational awareness, recognise potential danger, create distance and learn to use your voice with confidence.
Week 2 — Defend & Escape: Learn how to use your body effectively to protect yourself, defend against strikes, create space and practise practical escape techniques.
Week 3 — Ground Defence: Learn practical techniques to protect yourself on the ground, create space, defend yourself and safely get back to your feet.
Week 4 — Putting It All Together: Revisit and practise the skills you've learned, reflect on your original goals and recognise how far you've come. We'll finish the program with a presentation, morning tea and celebration.
Important Information to note:
This program is suitable for women and girls aged 12 years and over. Participants under 16 must attend with a parent or responsible adult.
As this is a progressive four-week program, each session builds on skills learned in previous weeks. Unfortunately, missed sessions cannot be made up or transferred to another date so please ensure you are available for all four dates before booking.
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The Base Health & Community
Sunday November 15th-Sunday December 6th
9.30am-11am (Sunday 6th Dec 9.30am-11.30am)
$199 per person
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Future Locations
We’re working on delivering more of our 4-Week Personal Safety Programs soon.
Keep an eye out for a location near you, or request a location below.
Our Workshops
Trauma-informed, age appropriate workshops that help students build confidence, awareness, and practical personal safety skills. Sessions are engaging, interactive, and aligned with student wellbeing priorities.
Key Outcomes:
✔ Develop situational awareness and recognise potential risks
✔ Practise assertive communication and boundary setting
✔ Build confidence and resilience
✔ Learn practical self defence and safe escape strategies
✔ Apply decision-making strategies in real-world scenarios
Practical training designed to help teams feel confident in recognising, responding to, and managing safety risks in the workplace.
Key Outcomes:
✔ Identify early warning signs of aggression
✔ Use verbal de-escalation techniques
✔ Maintain professional boundaries
✔ Respond safely in escalating situations
✔ Improve situational awareness
We also offer…
Girl Aware offers a considered range of services designed to support girls, young women, families, schools, and communities through practical, empowering personal safety education.
Ready to learn more?
If you're interested in bringing a Girl Aware workshop to your school, workplace or community group, we'd love to hear from you.
All enquiries are responded to promptly, and workshops can be tailored to suit your group's needs.