06/05/2025
🔊 You deserve to feel safe and powerful.
Join us for an empowering Self Defense Workshop designed just for the Making Waves community.
💪 Learn practical tools to handle real-world situations—from harassment to emergency scenarios.
🧠 Build confidence through situational awareness, verbal de-escalation, and physical techniques.
👥 Practice with a supportive group.
📅 Limited spots (16–20 only)
🎯 Sign up now and take the first step toward your safety and strength. About Vanessa: Vanessa Carlisle PhD (they/them) holds the rank of Shodan (1st degree black belt) in
Danzan Ryu Jujitsu. Vanessa offers workshops in partnership with Trans Defense Fund
of Los Angeles and the Sidewalk Project LA, and creates bespoke programs for schools,
nonprofits, private groups and corporate teams. They co-teach jujitsu with their Sensei
in the UCLA Martial Arts Program.
Drawing upon their lived experience as a survivor of multiple forms of violence and
their training in nonviolent communication, de-escalation, and somatic recovery
methods, Vanessa’s workshops are trauma-supportive, body and disability inclusive,
and responsive to clients’ immediate needs for safety and trauma-informed technique.
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