HOME TO SOCIETY

Swakshatra is the Training unit of Home to Society. Swakshatra in Sanskrit means 'Self-Powerful', 'Innately Strong', 'Free', 'Independent' and 'Master of Oneself'. Our vision at Swakshatra, is to empower every woman and child to be a personification of the word 'Swakshatra'.

The 'H' in Swakshatra is the Chinese symbol for strength. For us this symbol represents our core belief that every woman brings to the table a fierce inner strength, and our hope and vision is to help her unleash this innate strength.

The difference between what we do and what we could do…..would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. - Gandhi

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to women. If by strength is meant moral power then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater power of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is woman. I have nursed this thought now for years - Gandhi

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity and ageless knowing. Her name is wild woman but she is an endangered species. –Women who run with the wolves

The most common way people give up their power, is by thinking they don't have any – Alice Walker

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -Bernard Shaw

OUR OFFERINGS

Concept Training Offerings

Understanding Violent Behaviour
Natural Response to Stress
Training Personal Response
Survival as the Desired End Result, Reducing Risks
Dangerous and Emergency Situations – Some Dos and Don'ts
Thinking through a fight – Scanning, Unconventional Weapons
Rules in Self-Defence
Gender Roles, Overt and Covert Messages, Self Image
Gender Based Violence, Violence in Relationships, Dating Abuse, Sexual Abuse
Bystander Response to Emergency Situations
Information on State Support Structures

Physical Training Offerings : A self-defence approach specifically aimed for use by women and children, employing skill sets and techniques (strikes, blocks, escapes, chokes, manipulations, takedowns etc) easily employable by individuals of smaller body frames, advocated by self-defence experts across the globe.

Fitness and Conditioning
Training to Think Through a Fight
Negating a Power-Against-Power Equation
Understanding Leverage Points
Understanding Control Points: Pain Map of the Human Body

OUR Approach

Home to Society is a Bangalore based Charitable Trust formed by a few Ex-Indian Army Officers and their family members, with a mandate to empower women by imparting training in personal safety and life skills, within the broader mandate of our vision and mission statements.

We seek to bring about a paradigm shift in women empowerment, by imparting training aimed at developing below competencies in women and children:

Self-protection
Emergency response skills
Action competencies to take action and generate change
Awareness of state and non-state support structures for women
Capabilities to decide, what to do and who to be
Self-esteem and self-awareness

Our training programs are modeled to view personal safety holistically, and are a combination of below elements:

Self-defense packages specifically designed for women practitioners
Awareness programs aimed at training personal emergency response
Awareness of State and Non-State Support Structures
Bystander and Community Based Initiatives
Sensitization Programs
Self-esteem and self-awareness

Home to Society functions on a model of charging for these training programs, the segments of the society that can generate funds. Other segments of society, which could benefit much more from these initiatives, but may not be well placed to pay for the same, will be provided this service free of charge.