Advanced Self Defense Course Change Fear Into Power
There Are Two Model Mugging Women Self Defense Programs.
- The Basic Self Defense Course focuses on a single unarmed assailant.
- The Advanced Self Defense Course focuses on armed and multiple assailant scenarios.
Continue Your Model Mugging Journey
Completing the Model Mugging Basic Course is a significant accomplishment. For many graduates, it is the first time they have experienced what it feels like to respond under realistic stress instead of simply practicing techniques. But it also raises new questions.
What if there is more than one attacker? What if a weapon is involved? What if I am responsible for protecting a family member? How do I make good decisions when circumstances change faster than I can think?
The Advanced Self-Defense Retreat was created to answer those questions.
This is not simply “more techniques” or a harder version of the Basic Course. It is an immersive, residential experience designed for graduates who want to continue developing their confidence, judgment, and ability to respond to increasingly complex situations.
For three days, you’ll train alongside a small group of fellow Model Mugging graduates under the guidance of experienced instructors in an environment that allows for deeper learning than a traditional weekend class. Living and training together creates opportunities to build skills through repetition, discussion, coaching, and realistic scenarios that simply are not possible in a standard course.
Throughout the retreat, you’ll face progressively more challenging situations that require observation, decision-making, communication, and action under pressure. Rather than memorizing responses, you’ll learn how to recognize changing circumstances, evaluate options, and adapt as events unfold. The goal is not to teach a scripted solution for every problem, but to help you become more capable of making sound decisions in unpredictable situations.
Training extends beyond physical skills. You’ll explore home and personal security planning, managing encounters involving multiple people, responding to evolving threats, and understanding how stress affects judgment and performance. Firearms familiarization and home defense concepts are introduced in a controlled learning environment to broaden understanding, regardless of your previous experience with firearms. No prior firearms experience is required.
Because this is a retreat, the learning continues outside the formal training sessions. Meals, evening discussions, instructor question-and-answer sessions, and shared experiences create an environment where graduates learn not only from instructors, but from one another. Many participants describe these conversations as being just as valuable as the practical exercises themselves.
This retreat is designed for graduates of the Model Mugging Basic Course who want to continue building practical capability through realistic training. Whether you completed the Basic Course recently or years ago, the retreat provides an opportunity to refresh your skills, strengthen your confidence, and continue developing your ability to respond effectively under stress.
You do not need to be an athlete, have prior firearms experience, or consider yourself an expert. You only need a willingness to learn, challenge yourself, and continue growing.
Your registration includes:
- Three days of advanced instruction and realistic scenario training.
- Small class sizes with extensive individual coaching.
- Lodging during the retreat.
- Meals and refreshments throughout the program.
- Airport transportation to and from the retreat location.
- Firearms familiarization, range instruction, ammunition, and range fees.
- Home defense planning and decision-making exercises.
- Evening discussions with instructors and fellow graduates.
Our goal is for you to focus entirely on learning while we take care of the logistics.
Confidence is built through repeated success under progressively more challenging conditions. Judgment develops through experience, reflection, and coaching. By removing everyday distractions and bringing graduates together in a focused training environment, the retreat allows for a level of learning that cannot be replicated in a few hours at a local gym.
The result is more than additional skills. Graduates leave with greater confidence in their decision-making, a deeper understanding of personal safety, and a stronger belief in their ability to handle difficult situations.
The Basic Course introduces what is possible.
The Advanced Self-Defense Retreat helps you continue the journey.
If you’re ready to challenge yourself, expand your capabilities, and train alongside a community of committed Model Mugging graduates, we invite you to join us for the next Advanced Self-Defense Retreat.
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Self Defense Against Armed Assailants
One of the most common questions graduates ask after completing the Basic Course is, "What happens if an attacker has a weapon?" The presence of a weapon changes the situation, but it does not eliminate your options. Building on skills learned in the Basic Course, you will explore how timing, movement, positioning, and decision-making change when an assailant is armed. Progressive full-force scenarios allow you to practice adapting familiar skills against assailants armed with club-like weapons, knives, and firearms.
Self Defense Against Multiple Assailants
Multiple assailants create rapidly changing problems that require more than learning additional techniques. You'll practice movement, positioning, threat assessment, and identifying opportunities to disrupt an attack or escape. Full-force scenarios challenge you to adapt your existing skills as attackers, circumstances, and available options change.
Advanced Training Becomes More Fluid
Because the Basic Course established your foundation of skills and taught you how to channel fear, the Advanced Course becomes much more fluid and free-flowing. You'll adapt familiar skills as scenarios change rather than follow a predetermined sequence. Past Advanced Course participants have described this freedom in handling more complex situations as even more exhilarating and empowering than their Basic Course experience.
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What Graduates Are Saying
“This class changed my life. I learned how to defend myself, but more importantly, I learned that I’m worth defending.”
“I gained more than just skills. I gained confidence, healing, and a sisterhood I never expected.”
“After the course, my chronic stress level went down… I was more prepared and less afraid….”
“This experience changed my life for the better. I broke chains. I broke free of the past because of Model Mugging.”
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