The core of working together. Around 24 hours of training across four on-site sessions, usually spread over 4 to 12 months. Each session stands on its own and builds on the last, so people who miss one are not left behind and new starters can join at any point.
Quiet Confidence for your people
On-site sessions for care, health, security, education and community teams, built around the situations your people actually face.
When thinking goes offline, the body takes over
When someone suddenly grabs an arm or corners a colleague, adrenaline floods the system. Fine motor skills fade and rehearsed words disappear.
Quiet Confidence trains the body's responses directly, through practice rather than slides. People learn to stay balanced when grabbed, to protect without force, and to default to safer positions, so calm is available when it is needed most.
It sits alongside the training your organisation already has. It fills the physical, embodied part that frameworks and policies cannot reach on their own.
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Staying balanced when grabbed or pushed
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Protecting without force or restraint
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Defaulting to safer positioning
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Keeping the person in front of you safe too
Start small, or go deep
For teams ready to go further, in smaller groups. Topics include advanced de-escalation, trauma exposure and recovery, leadership under pressure, and how a team responds together.
A longer relationship, with one or two refresher sessions a year, onboarding for new staff, and support after difficult incidents.
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On-site
Sessions happen where your people work, with their own spaces and constraints.
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Up to 25 people
Groups are kept small. Teams can split so half train while the other half covers the floor.
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Your timeline
Sessions fit around your roster. There is no need to close for a training day.
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Across Aotearoa
Based in Auckland and delivering on-site around New Zealand.
Things people often ask
Is this self-defence?
No. Quiet Confidence teaches calm, grounded responses — protection through awareness, positioning and redirection, not fighting. The aim is to keep everyone safe, including the person who is distressed.
Will it replace the training we already have?
No. It works alongside your existing frameworks. Most training prepares people to think through a situation; Quiet Confidence prepares the body for the moment thinking goes offline.
What if some of our people are nervous about physical work?
Every session is built around consent and psychological safety. No one is pushed into contact they are not ready for, and everything progresses gradually.
Who has Quiet Confidence worked with?
Mental health and disability services, security teams, schools, and community groups — including Community Connections, SLS Security, King's College, Kelston Boys High School and the YMCA.
What does it cost?
Foundation programmes start from $10,000, depending on team size, location and how much the programme is tailored. A shorter 90-minute session for one or two teams is also available as a first step, and is credited toward a programme if you go ahead.
Let's talk about your team
A short conversation is the easiest place to start. Tell us about your people and what they face, and we will tell you honestly whether Quiet Confidence is a good fit.
hello@quietconfidence.co.nz