The “Awake and Alive!” Seminar: Putting an End to Violence against Women

Abstract

The author presents a program designed to address the problem of violence against women. The “Awake and Alive!” seminar combines the social and psychological principles of transactional analysis, information derived from research and from experiences working with and in the American criminal justice system, and an innovative system of self-defense techniques based on everyday movements referred to as Natural Movement Self-Defense.

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Eric William Sigmund

Eric William Sigmund has a master's degree in clinical psychology and is an International Transactional Analysis Association-certified transactional analyst with a clinical specialty. He was a corecipient of the 1980 Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award. Mr. Sigmund specializes in the treatment of depression and abuse and has practices on Maui and on the Big Island of Hawaii. Mr. Sigmund holds California Criminal Justice Commission and Hawaii State Corrections Division certifications as a Defensive Tactics Instructor, an Impact Weapons Instructor, and a Weaponless Self-Defense Instructor. He and his partners, Goshin Tsugiashi Do Jujitsu Sensei and artist David Anson Russo, and choreographer and dancer Camille Almy Sigmund, teach the “Awake and Alive!” seminar worldwide.