CAQ Level 2 Certification Pre-Requisite
Before purchasing this course, the trainer must have completed the ‘CAQ Level 1’ certification course.
Course Description
As the next certification credential step from the ‘CAQ Level 1’, this is a physical skills practical training course that focuses on validating and verifying that the instructor trainee can effectively and proficiently:
- Teach basic, practical, realistic, and effective physical skills that are intended to defend against a weapon-wielding assailant, and
- Design a personal safety and self-defense training program for a variety of potential participants.
Course Completion Options
- Live/In-Person
- Live/Virtual
- Live/Virtual & Video Submission
Course Objectives
General Objectives for the personal safety & self-defense instructor trainee include:
- Enhance retention of previous personal safety information & self-defense instructor skills training for weapon attacks.
- Verify and validate physical self-defense skill instructional methods.
- Improve the instructor’s ability, capability and competency for physical self-defense skills training.
- Motivate instructor trainees to continue learning and practicing personal safety knowledge and physical self-defense skills.
- Increase instructor trainee self-confidence, specifically related to personal safety and self-defense.
Specific Objectives for the personal safety & self-defense instructor trainee include the following:
- Learn, practice, improve, and demonstrate:
- Performance of physical self-defense skills that can be used against various types and methods of potential weapon attack scenarios
- Methods of teaching physical self-defense skills using verbal communication and physical demonstration methods
- Observation skills and corrective techniques for client performance of physical self-defense skills
- Learn how to effectively adapt and teach physical self-defense skills to participants with a variety of physical characteristics, abilities, capabilities, and potential personal or professional needs.
- Learn and understand how to custom-design practical, realistic, and effective personal safety & self-defense training programs for a variety of potential clients, including individuals, private groups, and corporations/organizations.
Instructor trainees are evaluated on:
- Knowledge about physical instruction of self-defense skills through successful completion of the Objective Multiple-Choice Exam
- Ability to effectively teach all assigned physical skills
- Ability to custom-design personal safety and self-defense training events and activities for different potential groups of participants through successful completion of the ‘Personal Safety & Self-Defense Course Design Exercise’ assignment.
Course Materials include:
- Course Completion Instructions – Personal Safety & Self-Defense – Instructor CAQ Level 2
- Online materials from the Personal Safety & Self-Defense Instructor Training (Foundations) course.
- Hard copy Training Manual may be purchased
- Training Manual Addendum – CAQ Level 2
- Supplement Technique Instructional Videos
- CAQ Level 2 – Physical Instruction Exam Packet
- CAQ Level 2 Practical Exam Guidelines Packet
- CAQ Level 2 Training Program Design Assignment Instructions
Required for ‘CAQ Level 2’
- Trainee Submissions & Completions
- Physical Instruction Exam
- Personal Safety & Self-Defense Program Design Assignment – Cover Form & Essay
- Live/In-Person, Live/Virtual, or Video Submission
- Practical Skills Performance for Weapon Attacks
CAQ LEVEL 2 – CERTIFICATION – $299
- Online Course (all course materials and exams) – $299
To purchase the Hard Copy Training Manual, CLICK HERE!
