Disruptors Defense

Women’s Self-Protection Training

NEXT CLASS: October 17-18th - Medford, OR

Disruptor Defense combines education, physical practice, and reflection in a retreat-style weekend.

Classroom Training • Physical Self-Defense • Firearms Safety

Self-Protection for Women

Disruptors Defense is a trauma-informed self-protection and empowerment program for women. Over one weekend, you'll build practical safety skills, stronger boundaries, and greater personal clarity — through classroom education, self-defense training, firearms familiarity, and honest reflection.

Disruptors Defense is built for women who want practical safety tools, stronger boundaries, and greater personal awareness.

Join us October 17-18th in Medford, Oregon

$399 investment includes (limited to 10 women)

  • 2-day training (self-defense, firearms safety, classroom learning)

  • snacks & delicious lunch

  • firearm rental

  • gift bag

A portion of every program's revenue supports emergency funds for trafficking survivors. You do not need to be a survivor of sex trafficking or abuse to take part — this program is for any woman ready to build her own safety and confidence.

This program is for women who are ready to make a meaningful change in their lives, women who want practical tools for safety, confidence, and personal growth. It's especially for women who are willing to learn, reflect, and take action, not from a place of fear, but from a place of strength.

At its core, Disruptor Defense exists to help women build greater awareness, stronger boundaries, and more confidence in the face of abuse, domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and other forms of harm. Safety isn't only physical; it's emotional, relational, mental, and actionary. Through classroom learning, embodied practice, physical training, and vision-focused reflection, you'll gain tools to move through the world more safely and intentionally.

Who is Disruptor Defense for?

The goal isn't only prevention; it's transformation. You'll leave with more clarity, courage, and capacity to make choices that support your safety, your well-being, and your future.

The curriculum addresses several interconnected issues: situational awareness, domestic violence awareness, abuse prevention, boundary setting, trafficking prevention, self-defense, firearms familiarity, and personal disruption as a catalyst for growth. We also connect safety and self-protection to vision, purpose, and your next actionable steps.

The learning environment itself is built around women's experiences, safety, and empowerment, so you can practice, reflect, and ask honest questions without feeling performative or intimidated.

What You'll Walk Away Knowing

Recognizing patterns before harm escalates.

You'll be able to identify common patterns of abuse, grooming, coercive control, and trafficking-related manipulation — in dating, marriage, separation, divorce, work, and online communication. You'll understand that abuse is far more likely to come from someone known and trusted than from a stranger, and you'll recognize early warning signs sooner.

You'll build foundational body-awareness and self-defense skills — including hold escapes, hip movement, collar chokes, and leverage-based techniques that support body autonomy to escape from control. You'll leave understanding how to use structure, position, and movement to create space, disrupt control, and get to safety, without needing to become a fighter.

You will also practice using your voice, standing your ground, and walking with confidence.

Time on the mat.

Reading behavior with sharper judgment.

You'll gain practical tools for spotting red flags in dating apps, direct messages, workplace interactions, and everyday situations — reading intent, noticing inconsistency, and rejecting any notion that women should tolerate objectification or diminishment.

You'll get comfortable with the sound of gunfire and learn firearms safety fundamentals, including situational awareness. You'll learn to identify the parts of a gun, determine if it's loaded, safely load and unload, rack, shoot, hold a proper stance, and manage trigger control. We'll also discuss active-shooter response thinking and the role of firearms within a broader personal safety plan. Because firearms and domestic violence are a high-risk combination, this section is taught with clear safety rules and trauma-informed care.

Time at the range.

Understanding cycles of abuse.

You'll be able to describe how emotional abuse, isolation, intimidation, stalking, and coercive behavior typically develop over time, and distinguish between ordinary discomfort, suspicious behavior, and genuinely unsafe situations — moving from passive awareness into active pattern recognition. We'll also touch on the legal protections available to you, including how court injunctions work.

Boundaries you can actually hold.

You'll practice setting and maintaining boundaries in your personal and professional life — ending unsafe relationships, placing safety above politeness, responding to misogynistic comments, standing up for yourself at work, and recognizing when discomfort is a warning sign rather than something to push past.

October 17-18, 2026

Medford, Oregon

Investment: $399

Questions? Email us at highfive@wearedisruptors.org— we'll get back to you personally.

Disruptor Defense is a program of Disruptors Org.

Space is limited to 10 participants.

Agenda

Day One - Saturday

Foundations and Body-Based Safety

The day starts at a cozy Southern Oregon farm with coffee, snacks, an opening circle, and group agreements for the weekend. From there, we move through grooming and abuse patterns, trafficking awareness, cycles of abuse, relationship red flags, stalking, and divorce — grounded in the reality that women are more likely to be harmed by someone they know than a stranger.

Lunch is provided. Catered by Chef Marce

After lunch and a session on personal discernment, we head to a Medford BJJ academy for hands-on instruction with a female instructor: technique, guided practice, and live drilling in foundational self-defense.

Day Two - Sunday

Firearms Safety and Integration

We start at the range with a safety briefing, then move through firearm parts, safe handling, loading, unloading, racking, stance, and trigger control. Target practice, hand-eye coordination drills, and more will be followed by a conversation on firearms safety in the context of domestic violence and active-shooter awareness.

Lunch is provided. Catered by Chef Marce

Back at the farm, we close the weekend with a debrief, workbook reflection, boundary-setting and change-planning, and community assignments to carry your plan forward.

Two weeks later, we gather again for a happy-hour-style reconnection at the farm to celebrate wins, talk through what's changed, support each other through next steps in progress, and keep the cohort connected.

Disruptor Defense is trauma-informed, strengths-based, and survivor-informed from the ground up.

Every session opens with a group agreement and trauma-informed safety guidelines, so everyone knows what to expect before we start. Nothing in the weekend requires you to disclose your history. The pace stays predictable: you'll know what's coming before it happens, and you always have room to step back, modify, or sit out a piece of the physical work with an emphasis on self-care.

This program is framed around strength, not fear. We don't use shame or panic to make a point, and we don't ask you to relive anything you're not ready to talk about. What we do ask is that you show up willing to learn, reflect, and take action.

Trauma-Informed

Our Team

Lauren Trantham

Founder, Lead Trainer

Lauren Trantham is the founder and executive director of Disruptors Org, an anti-trafficking nonprofit focused on community education, survivor support, and disrupting exploitation. A keynote speaker and trainer, Lauren helps audiences turn personal disruption into clarity, courage, and meaningful forward movement.

Through her work in trafficking prevention, nonprofit leadership, and women’s empowerment, Lauren creates practical, strengths-based learning experiences that connect awareness with action. She is committed to equipping women with the confidence, discernment, and tools to move through life with greater safety, agency, and purpose.

Maddie Wilson

Madison Wilson is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt with 26 years of training experience. She began training at age four under her father, Pete Loncarevich, owner of Lotus Academy Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Medford, Oregon, and later taught children’s classes at the academy.

Skilled in both sport Jiu-Jitsu and practical self-defense, Madison helps women build confidence, body awareness, and effective skills for responding to difficult situations. A Southern Oregon native, mother of three, and education student at Southern Oregon University, she is committed to making Jiu-Jitsu accessible, practical, and empowering for women.

Self-Defense Instructor

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No. This program is built for women at every starting point, including women who've never taken a self-defense class before.

  • No. This program is for women of all ages who want practical safety tools and more confidence — survivor or not.

  • Yes. The physical training is about learning structure, position, and movement to create space and get to safety — not about fitness level or becoming a fighter. You move at your own pace.

  • The range day is about safety literacy — understanding how firearms work, safe handling, and informed decision-making. It's taught with clear safety rules and trauma-informed care, and you're never required to purchase or carry a firearm afterward.

  • That's expected, and the program is built with that in mind. The weekend opens with group agreements and trauma-informed safety guidelines; the pace is predictable, and you're never asked to share more than you're comfortable sharing.

  • No. Many participants are simply women who want to be proactive about their own safety, confidence, and boundaries — no specific history required.

  • Yes. Two weeks after the retreat, the full cohort gathers again to check in, celebrate progress, and support each other through whatever comes next. You'll also leave with an accountability buddy from your group.

  • Your investment covers the full weekend experience — instruction, meals, materials, and follow-up. A portion also goes directly to emergency services for trafficking survivors through Disruptors Org.

October 17-18, 2026

Southern Oregon
Investment: $399

Questions? Email us at highfive@wearedisruptors.org— we'll get back to you personally.

Disruptor Defense is a program of Disruptors Org.