Safer for a Day: Situational Awareness and Mindful Safety

The Sedona Women's September 12, 2024, program features Larry Betz, who will present SAFER FOR A DAY: SITUATIONAL AWARENESS AND MINDFUL SAFETY. This presentation will focus on the critical skills of situational awareness, interpreting body language, and employing verbal de-escalation tactics to navigate challenging situations effectively. 

Situational safety and awareness includes several key concepts, all centering on our mindset as it relates to confrontation management and survivability. Larry will discuss in detail the combat mindset.

• Levels of Awareness: It is crucial to understand the different levels of situational awareness and how to apply them in daily life. By learning to observe your environment, constantly evaluate it, and react appropriately to what you see, you can achieve a large degree of control over your circumstances. This means you need to learn to shift up and down a scale of alertness, so that you can match your level of readiness with the threat level encountered and as circumstances change around you.
• Trusting Your Instincts: The importance of intuition and how it can be a powerful tool for personal safety.
• Bad Guy Body Language: Recognizing the signs of potentially harmful individuals through their body language and behavior.
• De-Escalation Strategies: Effective techniques to defuse potentially dangerous situations and avoid conflict.
• The 10-Second Rule: Understanding the crucial seconds that can make a difference in assessing and reacting to a threat.

Following the presentation of key concepts, Larry will conduct an interactive discussion exploring real-life scenarios to practice and apply these mindful safety concepts.

Larry is a seasoned expert in personal safety, situational awareness, and self defense. When he relocated to Sedona from New York City, he opened Sedona Strength and Mobility, and Prepared Not Paranoid, focusing on fitness and personal safety through situational awareness and home security.