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A scalable, all-in-one platform for improving personal well–being and safety, with the goal of eliminating interpersonal and gender-based violence.
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Changing the culture of violence through mobile app technology.
A scalable, all-in-one platform for improving personal well–being and safety, with the goal of eliminating interpersonal and gender-based violence.
Verbal and boundary setting skills
for relationships, workplace, and daily life
De-escalation and physical self-defense techniques
for building confidence and staying safe.
A supportive virtual community of peers and mentors, a resource library, and an extensive library of instructional videos.
MyPwr App is based on the principles of Empowerment Self Defense (ESD), a holistic, evidence-based, trauma–informed approach to violence prevention and resistance education that has been practiced around the world for over 50 years. Emphasizing awareness, assertiveness, and verbal and physical strategies for all genders, ages, and physical abilities, ESD provides a comprehensive toolkit for personal safety.
MyPwr makes the transformative power of ESD accessible to large numbers, creating safer communities and sparking a broader cultural shift.
Using your head to notice what is going on, and what you want and can do.
Using your voice to express your boundaries clearly.
Using your power to leave when you are in an uncomfortable or unsafe situation.
Using your body, the only thing you have with you all of the time, to protect yourself from an assailant.
Using the safe communities built by ESD members to get support and support others.