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SASS Go offers empowering self-defense courses for women and girls ages five and up, as well as education and training designed for communities and the professionals who serve them. Our licensed instructors equip every participant with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to make a lasting impact.

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Sassafras

Elementary School
Class Time: 1.5 hours

Designed for elementary girls and their mothers or guardians, this course feels more like play than preparation. Girls are taught to trust their instincts, recognize manipulative behaviors and use their voice with new physical skills to run, yell, and tell in order to get the help they need. Advocating for oneself, physically and mentally, begins here.

Miss Independent

Middle School
Class Time: 2 hours

This course teaches middle school girls to recognize the signs of unhealthy relationships and the dangers hidden in social media. Participants learn to use their voice, recognize their own worth, and fight back if needed, with precision and determination, to get to safety and help quickly.

SASS 1

Women Ages 15 +
Class Time: 2 hours

Participants are trained physically and mentally for the most common threats to their safety from simple grabs to complex strangulation scenarios. This course is paramount to creating a community of women and girls who know they are worth the fight!

SASS 2

Women Ages 15 +
Class Time: 2 hours

Women and girls review material from SASS 1 and learn additional physical and mental skills to safeguard them from ground attacks and numerous abduction scenarios. This course builds on the power and purpose discovered in SASS 1.

SASS Elite

Women Ages 16 +
Class Time: 2 hours per week for 8 weeks

This empowering 8-week self-defense course for women ages 16 and up provides comprehensive training to help you recognize danger, respond with confidence, and protect yourself effectively. Through focused instruction and hands-on practice, you’ll learn to defend against common grabs, strangulation attempts, and armed threats involving guns and knives. The course also prepares you for high-stress situations, including attacks by multiple assailants. With a strong emphasis on situational awareness and physical preparedness, this course is designed to equip you with practical, potentially life-saving skills. It is also offered as a for-credit semester course at select colleges and universities.

Protecting Your Little Girl

Parents & Guardians
Class Time: 1 hour

This course is designed for parents and guardians determined to protect and empower their elementary aged girls against assault, abuse and trafficking. Uncover how predators gain her attention and how to develop a safety plan that offers you and her control and confidence. Match the tools that help her predict predatory behaviors with age appropriate ways to talk to her about recognizing dangerous situations and getting to safety quickly. We will share practical tips for building her confidence, awareness, and decision-making skills that can be taught with one trip to Chick-fil-a! Training her at this age is not only critical, but fun, and the benefits will last a lifetime!

The Middle School Mind

Parents & Guardians
Class Time: 1 hour

Let’s face it, middle school is an adventure for kids and their parents. This course is designed for parents and guardians determined to protect their middle school girls while navigating the dangers that are unique to this particular age group. Participants will learn the essential skills to protect her life, to recognize the signs of unhealthy relationships, and the dangers hidden in social media and beyond. Gain the skills to help her predict predatory behavior with age appropriate ways to talk to her about it and learn how to develop a safety plan that offers confidence for everyone. We will share practical tips for building her confidence, awareness, and decision-making skills through conversation that serves to strengthen your relationship with her.

College Essentials

College Women
Class Time: 1.5 hours

Designed for college students to learn the essentials of protecting body and mind, this training teaches participants to recognize potentially dangerous interactions with minimal information, the 5 most common tactics used to prey on women and how to counter them, situational awareness/risk reduction, how to get more time in emergencies, and their strengths that can be used against an attacker’s weaknesses in order to neutralize threats with maximum impact in the shortest amount of time. Participants will also learn how to find, support, and foster safety initiatives on campus and drive forward new ones.

10 Critical Skills

Women Ages 16 +
Class Time: 1.5 hours

The 10 Critical Skills to Save Your Own Life course instills a set of proactive skills, enabling and empowering individuals to recognize threats to their safety and immediately execute strategies necessary to save their own lives. Participants will learn how likely they are to face violence and abuse in their lifetime and discover ways to assess and mitigate risk that are useful in a myriad of commonly faced scenarios. The top five predatory tactics used against women and girls will be uncovered as well as a concrete understanding of the power of intuition, our body’s biological response to fear, and how to gain the advantage in dangerous scenarios, whether with a stranger, or someone known, trusted, or loved. Welcome to the course that teaches humans to use our inherent strengths and primordial characteristics to protect our most valuable asset- our lives!

Working The American Nightmare

October 20, 2026 | Seating is limited. Early registration is strongly encouraged.

On October 20, SASS Go will present Working the American Nightmare with Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn at Newberry College.

This immersive training invites law enforcement professionals to examine the case and decisions behind one of the most shocking criminal investigations in recent history. Through firsthand insight and detailed case analysis, participants will explore investigative judgment, interviewing, communication, bias, trauma response, leadership, public trust, and the accountability that shaped the case featured in Netflix’s American Nightmare.

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Critical Protective Skills

Class Time: 4 hours

Critical Protective Skills is a professional course designed for women in the workplace. Two hours of hands-on physical self defense are paired with two hours of mental protective skills, including threat assessment, situational awareness, protective mindset, and practical guidance for understanding and supporting people who have experienced assault or abuse. Now offered to women across the clinical, executive, and administrative teams of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, with 16 trainings scheduled for 2027.
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Medical Personnel

Class Time: 1.5 hours

This dynamic training provides healthcare communities with accessible, practical and tangible solutions when working with survivors of violence. Medical professionals play a critical role in in the lives of survivors but face complex barriers when doing so. “Recognize, Respond, Refer” provides concrete tools to manage the myriad of complexities within these cases by addressing the challenges for both patients and providers. With hurdles like time constraints and limited resources addressed, participants uncover key physical and behavioral indicators of abuse, comprehensive screening tools, trauma informed response protocol, and referral solutions that help ensure continuity of care by specialists long after first interactions. Your medical community should feel confident in their ability to care for some of the most vulnerable among us in ways that lead to safety and successful long-term health outcomes. “Recognize, Respond, Refer” training ensures they do.
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Legal Counsel

Class Time: 1.5 hours

For legal professionals pursuing justice, dependable client interactions and information sharing are critical to a cohesive case. This presentation identifies the ways in which trauma impacts the civil legal cases of survivors of violence in general practice and cases specifically related to the abuse. The discussion provides practical application skills assisting attorneys in partnering with their clients and more effectively representing them. The process in which a survivor must engage to achieve legal objectives can trigger the effects of trauma, making it difficult for them to fully participate in their case. Understanding, and successfully being able to identify symptoms of trauma, allows attorneys to use their time and resources more wisely through subtle approach adjustments producing a more cohesive case. “Recognize, Respond, Refer” equips legal professionals with the tools to represent their clients in both productive and conclusive ways.
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Law Enforcement

Class Time: 1.5 hours

This training provides law enforcement agencies with the tools to develop effective and comprehensive intake processes when working with survivors of violence and establish investigative strategies that maximize victim and officer safety while building prosecutable cases that hold perpetrators accountable and provide justice for both the community and survivor(s).
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The Uncommon Tour

SASS Go is launching a new program for women in churches and ministries across the U.S., and we’d love to bring it to your community.

It’s called The Uncommon Tour. The message is simple and life-changing: Your past doesn’t define you, and your present doesn’t limit you. God calls you uncommon. You were made to stand out, chosen and set apart with a purpose only He can reveal, guide, and fulfill.

Rooted in Acts 10:15: “What God has called clean, do not call common.” The Uncommon Tour is a Spirit-filled gathering of joy, truth, worship, and revival.

“Shannon and I have served tens of thousands of women worldwide and have seen that God is the ultimate Hope and Healer, meeting us with open arms and truth that transforms.”

This is for every woman ready to rise in confidence, purpose, and identity in Him.

We’d love to bring The Uncommon Tour to your church. Send us a message or give us a call, we would be happy to have a conversation!

Email: team@sassgo.orgor call: (803) 553-8822

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The Uncommon Tour

SASS Go is launching a new program for women in churches and ministries across the U.S., and we’d love to bring it to your community.

It’s called The Uncommon Tour. The message is simple and life-changing: Your past doesn’t define you, and your present doesn’t limit you. God calls you uncommon. You were made to stand out, chosen and set apart with a purpose only He can reveal, guide, and fulfill.

Rooted in Acts 10:15: “What God has called clean, do not call common.” The Uncommon Tour is a Spirit-filled gathering of joy, truth, worship, and revival.

“Shannon and I have served tens of thousands of women worldwide and have seen that God is the ultimate Hope and Healer, meeting us with open arms and truth that transforms.”

This is for every woman ready to rise in confidence, purpose, and identity in Him.

We’d love to bring The Uncommon Tour to your church. Send us a message or give us a call, we would be happy to have a conversation!

Email: team@sassgo.orgor call: (803) 553-8822

Working The American Nightmare

October 20, 2026 | Seating is limited. Early registration is strongly encouraged.

On October 20, SASS Go will present Working the American Nightmare with Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn at Newberry College.

This immersive training invites law enforcement professionals to examine the case and decisions behind one of the most shocking criminal investigations in recent history. Through firsthand insight and detailed case analysis, participants will explore investigative judgment, interviewing, communication, bias, trauma response, leadership, public trust, and the accountability that shaped the case featured in Netflix’s American Nightmare.

Learn More

Critical Protective Skills

Class Time: 4 hours

Critical Protective Skills is a professional course designed for women in the workplace. Two hours of hands-on physical self defense are paired with two hours of mental protective skills, including threat assessment, situational awareness, protective mindset, and practical guidance for understanding and supporting people who have experienced assault or abuse. Now offered to women across the clinical, executive, and administrative teams of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, with 16 trainings scheduled for 2027.
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