Active Shooter Response Training
Empowered by Defense™
Courses of Instruction
Fundamentals: ■ 1-Day Active Shooter Response Training
Essentials: ■ 2-Day Active Shooter Response Training
Core: ■ 3-Day Active Shooter Response Training
The Active Shooter Response Training is a customized 1 Day, 2 Day, and 3 Day course that is designed for school guardian / safety teams and school faculty / staff. The program's focus on the attendee's ability to prevail over the life-threatening realities of a violent Active Shooter / Active Assailant attacks in schools, places of worship and workplaces.
Through reality-based training, the attendees develop the skills and elemental principles of situational awareness, defensive / offensive survival, and a winning mindset to prevail over the life-threatening realities of a violent Active Shooter / Active Assailant attack.
The program's focus is on situational awareness and the core principals of: Avoid-Deny-Defend when encountered with the sudden violence of an Active Shooter incident. Students are taught key skills to develop a Preemptive Offensive Mindset that provides them with an effective survival tool kit.
Skills Covered in Our Different Courses
Hard Skills
Hard Skills
Situational Defense Drills
Close Quarters Offense
Counterattack Sequences
Ground Defense / Ground Offense / Ground Escapes
Counterattacks from the Ground
Situational Defense: Escapes / Defense from Holds-Grabs
Close Quarters Defense: Protecting Vitals / Positioning
Counterattacks: Vital Area Striking Fundamentals
Close Quarters Offense: Less-than-Lethal Defensive Tools
Vehicle Counterattack: Striking / Escapes / Defensive Skills
Trauma Emergency Incident Response
Evacuation / Barricaded Safe Room Strategies & Tactics
Soft Skills
Soft Skills
Active Shooter / Active Assailant Response Dynamics
Violence & Sexual Assault Awareness
Analysis, Statistics, and Identifying Criminality
Situational Awareness: Recognizing the Threat
Pre-Incident Indicators (PII)
De-escalation Tools: Verbal & Non-Verbal
Body Language
Personal Boundaries Defined
Personal Boundary Setting
Mindset Fundamentals
Threat Identification
Avoidance
TESTIMONIALS
What others are saying
"Our school district was woefully unprepared "
"Our school district was woefully unprepared to deal with an Active Shooter incident." We did something about it. We trained with GDI Safety in their Active Shooter Response Training program. It was an immersive scenario-based training that was tremendously impactful. It answered the call on addressing violence, and empowered the entire staff and faculty to protect ourselves and the children we are responsible for. We are united against school violence , and now have a safety plan to take immediate action on. My co-workers carry themselves differently. Their mindset is different. Our day-to-day vigilance has positively changed how we think, plan, and move about the campus. Thank you, GDI Safety! "
- Maria A.
"Empowered self-confidence that has soared with this training"
"A critically important course for every woman to attend in this day and age. Personal protection is our individual responsibility. Our community of women attended and learned MANY critically valuable lessons that were brought together in a unique reality based training experience. We were all left in a state of empowered self-confidence that has soared with this training!"
- Julie L.
"The GDI Active Shooter Response Training program forever changed our ISD's approach to school safety"
"The GDI Active Shooter Response Training program forever changed our ISD's approach to school safety. The scenario-based format wasn’t just informative—it was an intensive experience that transformed us all. Staff and faculty weren’t passive listeners; they were engaged and making real-time decisions under pressure. We were taught about the Fight-or-Flight syndrome and tachy-psych response—how adrenaline and related physiological and psychological effects such as tunnel vision kick in—the instructor gave detailed instruction that helped the class recognize and manage their own reactions. We saw hesitation turn into decisive action to Avoid, Deny, and Defend a violent attack. Now, our emergency plans are backed by muscle memory, not just theory."
- Racheal K.
About Lead Instructor:
Former Navy SEAL with 30+ years of instructional and operational experience in close-protection, dangerous environment survival, trauma emergency incident response, situational awareness, aberrant behavior identification,
Hand-to-Hand Combatives, Defensive Tactics, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Mr. Gonzalez has completed the CA SART (Sexual Assault Response Team) advocate certification program, and is a major proponent of Active Shooter school safety,
women's empowerment and personal protective measures.
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