For parents of kids of any age ...

"Learn how to effectively deal with bullying & youth violence from a team of professionals who have been teaching people how to stop verbal abuse for over 27 years"

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Bullying and youth violence are two of the most serious issues facing society.

However, if you’re a parent, it isn’t a societal issue for you — it’s personal. It's your kids who are risk of bullying and violence every single day -- or worse, already impacted.

So, if you are like most parents, you're looking for answers — and, as you’ve probably discovered, there is no shortage of "experts" who want to help.

The problem is that most of these folks are great at describing the problem and how serious it is. But, when it comes to offering advice, they don't have much to offer -- and the advice they do give is largely based on theories, not facts.

The reality is that we all know how serious the problem is and the last thing we need are a bunch of theories.

What's needed are SOLUTIONS -- practical and proven tactics that YOU can use -- RIGHT NOW -- to make verbal abuse, bullying, and harassment stop.

We’re the Vistelar Training Group and we’re recognized as one of the world’s leaders in verbal, physical, and situational self defense and safety. In 2009, to address the global problems of bullying and youth violence, we developed a partnership with the Verbal Judo Institute to take their research over the last 27 years with professionals (eg., police, corrections) and apply it to youth.

The Verbal Judo Institute was founded in 1983 by Dr. George Thompson to research and develop training programs in an area of study he named “Tactical Communications.” In addition to being a university professor for over 10 years, he had been a police officer for five years — where he became acutely aware that almost all physical violence begins with verbal confrontation. Dr. Thompson developed “Tactical Communications” to address this issue and, since 1983, the Verbal Judo Institute has trained more than one million professionals in its principles through a world-wide network of certified instructors in 7 countries. In addition, Dr. Thomson has published five books on this topic, with over 300,000 copies sold.

Verbal Judo has been proven to work with the most violent of criminals but its principles have not been broadly applied to everday life. That’s why we decided to join forces with this 27-year old institute.

Since then we have jointly developed training programs that are being used all over the world to educate parents and kids in how to effectively deal with bullying and violence.

You may have seen one or more of our Preventing Youth Violence tip videos somewhere on the Internet — which may be how you found this page.

We have created quite a few of these videos — so we decided to put up this web page so people could access them form one place.

If you are a parent of kids of any age, you should view these videos -- so you can learn how to help your child with bullying and prevent youth violence.

Just fill out the form at the right, press Submit, and you'll get an email from me with a link to my video-tips web page.

We look forward to sharing with you the straight scoop about how to effectively deal with bullying and youth violence.

To being treated with respect,

Verbal Judo Institute
Vistelar Training Group