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ABOUT KRISTIE KILGORE

Kristie Kilgore focuses on coaching, not just passing on knowledge. She offers hands-on, situational training to unlock the potential within each person to respond to real triggers for real situations that precede violence. Her Trigger Response Training™ system is both physiological and psychological. She teaches you how to plan for common, real life situations to allow you to safely live the life that YOU choose: in travel, at work, in the home, and at play. "Use of force is a last resort! This is NOT about fighting skills or martial arts. This is about planning to avoid violence and surviving real situations if your self-protection plan fails. Everyone should have a basic self-protection plan! Everyone. We live in violent times."

Kristie's approach can help you to plan in advance and recognize potentially violent or exploitative situations. Her concepts travel where-ever you choose to go in life. She demonstrates varying levels of violence and aggression, from annoyance to imminent death to allow you to find appropriate responses that fit your personal philosophies. Says Kilgore, "Excessive or in-appropriate use of force in a self-defense situation may mean that YOU go to jail, not your attacker. Learn what you can do and when!"

"One weekend of training can teach you a great deal of awareness and concepts that you can take anywhere. While you will learn effective recognition skills, one weekend will NOT turn you into a mean, fighting machine!" says Kristie. "Over the course of six weekends or 12 days of training you can learn effective responses, including physical response as a fall-back to ending a high-level, violent confrontation." She encourages couples and families to learn how to face violence as a TEAM, working in harmony to end an attack.

Concepts known as the Variables of Exposure to Violence, created by Kristie Kilgore for the book Eyes Wide Open: Bodyguard Strategies for Self Protection are a fundamental part of understanding violence. These variables apply to a range of violence from street violence, to domestic violence and even threat of terrorism.

The Use of Force training offered by Mountain Arts is based on statistical research conducted by Kristie Kilgore for Eyes Wide Open on how and where violence occurs, her interviews with victims of violence, and one simple question, "What happened before the violence?" This program is not like most self defense programs which tend to be reactionary, fear-based and rely on physical use of force techniques. This program is intended to re-create real life scenarios Trigger Response Training™ and teach students not only how to respond to and manage conflict, but also how to recognize and avoid potentially violent or high risk situations. It is proactive and protective of human life and well being. It is designed for the student who places the highest value on peace, not on finding an opportunity to use violence in answer to violence. We teach you how to assess and survey surroundings, recognize high risk locations and activities, and how to safely live the life you choose.