Personal Safety Training

DESCRIPTION: This training is designed for Project Harmony staff who may encounter emotionally charged, unpredictable, or potentially unsafe situations. The training will emphasize practical skills that participants can apply immediately in both professional and everyday settings.  This training will focus on such skills as:

• Situational awareness and recognition of developing threats
• Positioning, distance management, and maintaining safe exit options
• Verbal boundary setting and practical de-escalation principles
• Responding safely when communication alone is not enough
• Introduction to optional hands-on personal safety and self-defense training

PLACE: Training Rooms 1 & 2

TIME:    Thursday 11/12/26

                1:00pm - 2:30pm

INSTRUCTOR:  Brian Bonifas is the head instructor and owner of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Omaha, a Certified Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Training Center® offering Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) classes for men, women, and children of all ages and skill levels.

Bonifas brings 13 years of experience as a law enforcement officer.  His career has given him firsthand insight into the importance of preparedness, awareness, and effective self-defense, which he integrates into his teaching.

He is also certified as an instructor through:

• Gracie Survival Tactics (Gracie University)
• ALICE (Active Shooter Response Training)
• 88 Tactical (TacMed Instructor)
• Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security Active Shooter Threat Instructor

Outside the gym, Bonifas is active in the Omaha community, including his role as Director of Physical Training at the First Responders Foundation, where he offers law enforcement BJJ training to officers in the metro area. This program provides certified, state-approved BJJ-based arrest and control training.