Subject Matter Expert Seminars and Presentations
"So one may walk in peace." Customized safety and self-protection training for your organization.
Our mission
To build safer and healthier communities through education and training, helping our neighbors by building awareness and skill sets, as well as the ability, and permission, to get involved at any level. To put it simply: build a world where bad guys have no victims.
Building superheroes isn't easy. Let the experts help you.
We curate fully customized courses for corporations, government and civilian agencies, and other groups by drawing from over 25 years of experience training tens of thousands of civilians and law enforcement personnel from all over the world.
By combining our lineup of services into 2, 4, 6, or 8 hour or multi-day trainings, we aim not to meet, but far exceed your expectations and goals. If you're not sure what you need, just a quick conversation or a few emails and we will build the perfect package to fit your needs for your industry or scope of operations.
The lineup
Every program below can stand alone or combine with others into a custom package.
Awareness, Avoidance, & Action
The 3 steps to overcoming violence. Our most requested safety and self-protection presentation.
Non-Verbal Precursors to Violence
The science of violence: read the early warning signs before an attack, a lie, or an escape attempt.
De-Escalation and Defense
Recognize the cycle of aggression and reverse it before anger escalates to rage or violence.
Active Threat!
The ABC's of escaping mass-casualty attacks: Avoid, Barricade, Confront. Best delivered at your facility.
Civilian Use of Force
The law and your right to self-defense, broken down into plain language by a POST Subject Matter Expert.
Survival Mindset (First Responders)
A science-backed operating system for performing under life-or-death stress, on every call.
Winning Mindset (Business Keynote)
The psychology of winning in high-stakes business: break out of survival mode when the stakes are highest.
Live Self-Defense Training
Hands-on, customized training from some of the nation's top instructors, at your facility or ours.
Online Video University
A virtual library of self-defense lessons available 24/7 on any device, taught by top expert instructors.
Live self-defense training
A customized syllabus built for your group's needs, addressing your unique concerns for safety. De-escalation tactics, unarmed self-defense, anti-abduction, weapons defenses, OC spray, Taser, baton, and even firearms training are all available from certified and credentialed experts.
Delivered at your facility, at one of ours in Colorado, or at one of our network partner locations across the US.
Arrest control / defensive tactics
James is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Colorado POST board's Arrest Control Tactics Committee. Along with being a use-of-force expert and a court certified expert in training methods and instructor development for the Krav Maga system, that makes him uniquely qualified to conduct DT instructor certifications, deliver in-service or supplemental training for your agency or academy, and help develop curriculum and training outlines.
Defensive tactics, handcuffing, searching, control holds, takedowns, edged weapon defenses, firearm retention and retrieval, long gun retention and retrieval, and baton. Each syllabus is customized for the agency by their input, or taken directly from the academy requirements in the Colorado POST manual.
"Awareness, Avoidance, & Action"
The 3 steps to overcoming violence.
Delivered to hundreds of diverse groups both live and virtually, this popular multimedia, interactive presentation is an educational must for safety and security training.
Situational AWARENESS, the much tossed around catch phrase of the defensive tactics industry, is rarely used correctly, seldom broken down to its actual components, and almost never accompanied by actionable practice. Until now.
AVOIDANCE is an integral part of self-defense, and usually thrown in as a side note like "run away if you can, but...". Not in our training. We show you what really happens when survival-level stress is unexpectedly introduced into a situation, and give you practical methods to ensure your escape plan has a real chance of working.
ACTION is what is needed when it all hits the fan. Taking decisive action with a high percentage chance of favorable results takes training; don't let anyone sell you otherwise. But there is a practical way to get training, and the long way, even a wrong way. We'll help you wade through the options without bias, just principles.
Non-verbal precursors to violence
It's the science of violence. This course focuses directly on the early warning signs that someone might launch an attack, run, or simply start lying to you.
Stress releases the hormones cortisol and adrenaline in our bodies. These two powerful drugs, like most strong drugs, produce side effects that you can detect very early on if you know what to look for. Sometimes well before any action is taken.
The well known "fight or flight" survival mechanism built into our brain is basically stress on steroids (literally) and happens when someone might be getting ready to attack or flee. Knowing when someone is beginning to lapse into the survival response can give you a huge advantage in de-escalation, avoidance, or defense.
This seminar breaks down the biological response to fear, the body's uncontrollable mechanisms triggered by it, and how they manifest outwardly for anyone to see, if they're looking for the right things. Lots of video examples to practice your new super-power!
De-escalation
From calmness through violence, there is often a "cycle of aggression" that can be identified and in many cases reversed by using de-escalation tactics. Recognizing the first stage, ANGER, and reversing it before it escalates to RAGE or VIOLENCE is key to success.
Learn to assess someone's thought, emotion, and behavior to better understand the tools of de-escalation available for each encounter, and gain vital tools for active listening, empathy, questioning, and ultimately controlling behavior.
James is a de-escalation instructor certified by the Force Science Institute, and certified in the tactics and techniques of de-escalation by the Relias Academy in the Washington State Department of Health and Social Services.
Civilian use-of-force
As a respected Subject Matter Expert, James Hiromasa sits on the Arrest/Control and Defensive Tactics Subject Matter Expert Committee for the State of Colorado. Along with 25+ years of police training experience, James breaks down the civilian's right to self-defense in Colorado and when, and how much, force can be used to defend person, property, or premises.
Using examples from case law and breaking the legal verbiage down to easy to understand analogies, the main focus is on CRS 18-1-704, "Use of physical force in defense of a person."
DISCLAIMER: James is not an attorney and this lecture is not to be construed as legal advice.
Active Threat!
The ABC's of surviving a mass-casualty attack, be it shooting, stabbing, or any other threat to a group of people, presented in a factual and easy to understand way: Avoid. Barricade. Confront.
Similar to the previous notion of Run-Hide-Fight, this seminar breaks down the components of the HOW, not just the WHAT. This seminar is best delivered at YOUR facility, and includes an advance walk-through for personalization of the presentation, and a walk-through of your facility with participants for practical application.
The unfortunate reality is that this training is necessary for businesses, churches, and schools in today's volatile and unpredictable environment.
Survival Mindset (for first responders)
Most people enter dangerous situations already behind, because they were never taught how their brain processes threat and what it takes to override that gap before it costs them. "Survival Mindset" is a science-backed training program built around six pillars that law enforcement, first responders, and other professionals can apply immediately, on every call, in every environment.
You'll learn how to shift from reactive to proactive thinking, how to manage sustainable vigilance without burning out, and how to build the pre-loaded programs your brain will run when the adrenal dump hits and conscious thought goes offline. You'll understand how to work through biological chaos rather than against it, and how to address the psychological aftermath that follows critical incidents: what we call the Second Battle. This training doesn't give you more techniques to memorize. It gives you a different operating system.
Winning Mindset (business keynote)
When the market shifts, a crisis hits, or the floor drops out from under a business, people don't rise to the occasion. They fall to the level of their training. In this keynote, James draws on more than 30 years of preparing law enforcement, first responders, and everyday people to perform under life-or-death stress, and turns it into a practical playbook for leaders and teams.
He breaks down what actually happens to us under pressure: the freeze, the tunnel vision, the instinct to play "not to lose." Then he shows audiences how to break out of survival mode and shift to a growth-first, offensive footing when the stakes are highest. Part war story, part behavioral science, part field-tested strategy, told with humor, real footage, and the credibility of someone who has lived it.
Online video university courses
Top expert instructors break down the techniques and principles one by one, lead you through the lesson, and give insights and tips to be successful in your training. Bonus lessons include drills and exercises to build muscle memory and speed up reaction time while reducing recognition time.
All university courses and lessons are available 24/7 through our app on your phone or via any device connected to the internet. It's a virtual library of self-defense training at your fingertips!
Certifications
- Court Certified Expert: Larimer County Court
- Colorado POST Subject Matter Expert
- Force Science Institute: Certified De-Escalation Instructor
- CTAA: iKEW Education
- Relias Academy: Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
- Krav Maga Worldwide: Master Instructor
- Krav Maga Alliance: Master Instructor
- Wingate Institute (Israel): Senior Master Instructor
- USCCA Instructor
- Tactical Krav Maga: Founders Certificate
- Broomfield County Verified Firearms Instructor
From recent seminars
"One of the most valuable and engaging presentations I have experienced. He's funny, warm, and obviously extremely knowledgeable. James doesn't just present information. He teaches you how to see things differently."
"Code enforcement officers can be a cynical and jaded group sometimes, but he re-energized many of us. We are practicing the skills he taught, and doing our jobs with a renewed sense of purpose and safety. We will use him again, and again."
"His deep knowledge and experience make the concepts come to life. His storytelling was fun to listen to, but when he linked the stories to the concepts, the storytelling became powerful."
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