Violent assaults, robbery, disgruntled employee shootings, rape, carjacking, natural and manmade disasters, terrorism and countless other forms of violent actions by man and nature are all realities of our society.

 Such incidents of violence are by-products of human interaction and also the interaction between man and the forces of nature.

 Violence or crisis can occur at any time, a masked assailant enters a bank and flees with an untold amount; a woman is attacked and raped in a darkened parking lot; a fire rages through a manufacturing plant and employees untrained to survive panic and parish; a man upset over being terminated returns to work for one final visit and in his wake lay the motionless bodies of innocent co-workers.

  Violent and endangering incidents are a reality of life, sad that it is but none the less true. Just as these incidents are negative realities in life, so is survival a positive reality that gives us hope, and cultivates peace of mind.

  In most circumstances being a victim and surviving is beyond our control, but in all cases we have choices, and those choices are often the variables that make the difference between us surviving or not.

Life involves a never ending procession of decisions and choices to be made, and situations to be acted upon, even in what appears to be a helpless situation we have choices.

 In situations of violent intent and other incidents our choices are clear and to the point, we either face the realities of the situation or we don't. We either react accordingly or we don't.

  The results of our decisions and actions are the difference between surviving unharmed, physical injury or death.

 Praetorian believes that facing the reality of the situation and acting accordingly is the only true option to adverse incidents; crisis management and survival is the only acceptable outcome.

By the terms Survival and Facing the Incident Praetorian is not implying or promoting a superhero mentality, or a do or die attitude.

Our view is that facing the incident and survival means knowing when and how to flee an area, and how to resolve a situation.

It means knowing how to account for, assist and comfort family, friends, or co-workers during and after traumatic incidents.

Finally it means knowing when it is necessary to fight or resist, and how to correctly accomplish that effort.

Praetorian’s philosophy on incident training is based on the principles of mind and body conditioning and simulated action, a proven method of training practiced and refined by generations of military practitioners.

Many educators have adopted a lecture only philosophy, weighing the student down with volumes of statistics, reciting a list of sleepy eyed do's and don'ts, and then sending that student out into the world to work out his own salvation in time of crisis.

Genesis operates under a different and proven method of Incident education.

Praetorian believes that physical incident  education must be interesting, informative, and memorable.

 Our educational objective is to orientate and condition the conscious and sub-conscious mind and the body to react and work together to instinctively and correctly choose the proper cause of action in a given situation, allowing for the best odds of survival or diffusion of the situation.

 Praetorian believes that what causes us to freeze, or act incorrectly during a traumatic, violent or confrontational situation is the unfamiliarity of the situation, here the mind not having reference points for options freezes.

 Another cause to this freezing process is the conflict between conscious and the sub-conscious minds attempting to override the input of the other. This results in one or the other taking full control of the action process.

 This is in opposition to the normal function of cooperating together and feeding the natural survival instincts to react correctly within the parameters of specific violent intercourse.

 Praetorian’s physical training is accomplished through the combination of comprehensive classroom instruction and aggressive situation simulation and realistic role-playing.

* Teaches how to increase the odds of avoiding disruptive or violent situations.

 * Teaches how to increase the odds of surviving acts of violence.

 * Creates confidence in and among employees, and develops a team mentality within personnel structure and the work area.

 * Promotes a more positive work environment.

 * Establishes a more secure facility.

* Helps to lessen the potential for legal liability.

* Helps lessen lost of production due to stress and mental trauma.

* Helps lessen material lost and property destruction from internal sources.