Trainings

Oakland Speaks

Upstander Training Agenda:

    • SAFETY — First and Always

    • Upstander Basics 

      • Before Intervening: HALTT – ask yourself if you are: 

        Hungry - Angry - Lonely - Tired - Triggered?

      • Choosing the Best Intervention: 5 Ds 

        Distract - Delegate - Document - Delay - Direct

      • After Intervening:  SLLaP

        Shake, Look, Listen, and Proceed

    • Tools of the Everyday Hero 

      • Whistle, Programmed Cell Phone, Breathwork, Clarity

    • How You Can Help Build Oakland’s Upstander Community

Scheduled Trainings:


Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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