We teach people how to be harder to hurt and easier to work with.
Practical training in self-defense, anti-hijacking, GBV prevention, conflict management and psychological safety for workplaces, schools and individuals.
Whether you're protecting your team, your school or yourself, we have practical training that fits your situation.
For Organisations
Self-defense, anti-hijacking, GBV empowerment, conflict management and psychological safety training.
For Schools
Self-defense, predator awareness and anti-bullying workshops for learners and educators from primary through high school.
For Individuals
Private self-defense training, personal safety coaching and GBV empowerment. For women, men, teenagers and families.
why Flag Academy
Safety isn't a feeling. It's a skill.
Most safety training teaches theory. FLAG teaches behaviour.
We work at the intersection of physical safety, psychological safety and human performance. When people feel unsafe, fear changes how they respond, they hesitate, freeze, pull back, stay silent when they should speak up. Left unaddressed, those moments become incidents.
FLAG Academys training builds the practical skills people need to stay composed, communicate clearly and act effectively, on the road, on site, under pressure, and in everyday situations.
That's why our work includes self-defense and anti-hijacking through to conflict management, GBV agency and empowerment and psychological safety. The threat changes but the human response doesn't.
What We Deliver
Practical training for organisations, schools and individuals
FOR ORGANISATIONS
Conflict, Pressure & Performance
Tools to stay composed, communicate clearly, make good decisions under pressure and resolve difficult situations before they escalate.
Personal Safety & Anti-Hijacking
Practical threat awareness, response and self-defence training for staff who are on the road, work in high-risk areas or deal with the public.
GBV Agency & Empowerment
Help your staff recognise unsafe dynamics, set boundaries, respond with confidence and become allies. Suitable for men and women.
FOR SCHOOLS
High School Self-Defence
Practical safety training for high school learners. Builds situational awareness, confidence and the ability to recognise and respond to unsafe situations before they escalate.
Primary School Self-Defence
Age-appropriate personal safety skills for younger learners. Teaches children to recognise unsafe situations, set boundaries and ask for help with confidence.
Become Bully-Proof
Practical anti-bullying workshops for learners and educators. Clear tools to recognise, interrupt and prevent bullying before it escalates into something more serious.
FOR INDIVIDUALS
Private Self-Defense
One-on-one and small group self-defence training for individuals, teenagers and families. Practical skills built around real situations and real threat responses.
Online Self-Defense Course
Can't make it in person?
Our online self-defense course gives you practical awareness, boundary-setting and self-defense skills you can learn from anywhere in the world.
Personal Safety Coaching
We work one-on-one to understand the fears, beliefs and behaviours that stop you from feeling safe, speaking up, setting boundaries, trusting yourself and performing at your best.
WORKING WITH ORGANISATIONS
Consulting that addresses people problems before they become expensive.
Training solves a specific problem on a specific day. But some organisations need more than that.
Ann works directly with HR leaders, Operations Directors and MDs as a Human Behaviour and Performance Consultant, helping organisations identify and address the people risks that affect safety, performance and culture before they become grievances, incidents or reputational damage.
If your organisation is dealing with conflict, toxic behaviour, leadership gaps, disengagement or a team that isn't performing the way it should, that's a human behaviour problem. And it's a solvable one.
This work sits alongside our training programs and starts with understanding your specific situation.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAITH MED EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
Complete coverage from prevention through to emergency response.
Faith Med provides 24/7 emergency ambulance services, inter-hospital transfers, industrial medical standby, specialist rescue operations and aero-medical services across Richards Bay, Durban and KwaZulu-Natal. When a crisis hits, they are there.
FLAG Academy works on everything that happens before that call gets made, building the human behaviour skills your people need to stay composed, recognise danger early, communicate clearly and handle difficult situations before they escalate into incidents.
FLAG handles what can be prevented. Faith Med handles what cannot. Together, your people and your organisation are covered at every level.
what Clients Say
Testimonials & Featured Clients
TRUSTED BY ORGANISATIONS ACROSS SOUTH AFRICA
Prepared people don't just handle difficult situations better.
They get into fewer of them.