Participants will enroll in one 2-hour session, which will include lecture, discussion, demonstration, and practice of physical skills. Instructor: Candace Dorsey, Empowerment Self Defense Program Manager, University of Michigan - Division of Public Safety & Security. The empowerment self-defense class will explore the culture of violence, and teach concrete but practical effective skills for personal safety and physical self defense in a wide variety of contexts. Participants will be able to: understand how situational awareness can deter or prevent an attack, use verbal skills for assertive communication, evade and set boundaries (verbal & physical), use practical options to make ourselves more comfortable when uncomfortable situations occur, recognize and interrupt unwanted behavior when in social situations, interpersonal/intimate relationships as well as interactions with strangers.