Courses for teachers and parents on the example of the Catholic School in Hilden

It´s been six years since a Wing Tsjun International team has started teaching 8th graders at the Catholic Girls School in Hilden during physical education class. Here, too, a Wing Tsjun prevention class has been taught. The Wing Tsjun instructors train members of the teachers college a preventive and work-oriented concept, to handle stressful situations and, of course, self-defense in the event of an attack.

Special attention is given to the de-escalation and avoiding of danger when dealing with students. One of the goals is building a harmonious togetherness on schooldays, as well as teachers being ready and able to appropriately judge stressful situations and to take firm, but just action.

The school headship also decided to organise a class for the parents of the girls who were being trained. This class, too, is conceptually different from the students' and teachers' prevention courses. Apart from exercises concerning gesture, mimicry, rhetoric and self-defense, the subject of putting oneself in the child's place is addressed. How can I as a parent know that my child has been abused? What can I do in such a situation? Who can I turn to? How do I talk to my child about the subject of abuse? How do I best work together with the teacher?

It is not easy for any parent to deal with such issues. The prevention class answers questions and offers solutions. And perhaps most importantly, it strengthens the "children-parents-school" chain to notice particular changes in children’s behaviour as soon as possible and to help appropriately.