End verbal abuse, bullying and harassment

Discover the communication secrets to
prevent and de-escalate conflict – at work,
on the playground, at home and in life

In 1983, Dr. George Thompson took his 10 years as a university professor and 5 years as a police officer (yep, a cop with a Ph.D.) — and founded the Verbal Judo Institute.

Since then and until his death in 2011, he published four books (with over 300,000 copies sold) and trained over 1 million public safety professionals from all over the world. He has been interviewed scads of times by the national news media– ABC, CBS, CNN, 48 Hors, Inside Editions and NBC (including Tom Brokaw).

But, it’s possible you have never heard about him.

Here’s why

For most of Doc’s career, he focused his efforts on police, corrections and security professionals. In that arena almost everyone knows of Doc — because what he teaches works.

In fact, his structured communication methodologies are now embedded in the training curriculum of thousands of organizations — from the smallest police departments to the largest agencies — with transformational results.

But, here is what’s interesting…

Even though he developed communication methodologies for public safety, we hear all of the time about the positive impact it has on our student’s personal lives.

That’s why, in 2010, he decided to join forces with other conflict management and personal development experts to expand his reach to other markets — including business, education, and healthcare — and to personal applications, including adult verbal abuse and youth bullying.

He decided that everyone who might encounter verbal attacks or abuse should have access to his training — not just the police, corrections and security professionals he had trained for over 27 years.

His communication methodologies are now under the banner of Verbal Defense & Influence — but the focus is still on redirecting people’s behavior with words.

In police, corrections and security we call this “generating voluntary compliance” — a powerful outcome in that profession because it saves lives. But, as mentioned above, we’ve discovered it also enhances cooperation and collaboration within a team, improves customer service and sales, and prevents bullying and verbal abuse.

Verbal Defense & Influence is about preventing conflict and, if it occurs, ensuring that it doesn’t escalate and cause emotional or physical harm.

That’s critically important on the street but it’s also valuable in dealing with spouses, children, bosses, employees, students, and customers. Even kids can use it to protect themselves from bullying.

In other words, anyone interacting with other human beings should know Doc’s structured communication methodologies.

Learn Verbal Defense & Influence For Free

We want everyone to have access to Verbal Defense & Influence training so we’ve worked with our tech team to provide it for FREE.

Here is how this works.

You give us your name and email address and we’ll send you an email newsletter every week with a Verbal Defense & Influence lesson. Depending on the week, this newsletter may be in written, audio or video form.

When you sign up, here are just some of the things you’ll learn:

How to deflect any verbal attack
The four steps of active listening (understanding these steps will change your life – from the boardroom to the bedroom)
The 25 phrases you must NEVER say (so you don’t say something you’ll live to regret)
The critical steps to de-escalating any situation (it took me 40 years to learn these)
The non-verbal language that will ALWAYS get you in trouble
How to handle really difficult people (and sneaky ones, too)
Know when to stop talking and take action

Just fill out the form at the right, press Submit, and you’ll get an email with a link to confirm your email address. Then, every week we’ll send you a Verbal Defense & Influence lesson that you can readily apply in your life to better manage conflict.

To everyone being treated with dignity and respect.

Verbal Defense & Influence