Gender-based violence affects every country, every sector and every workplace. Around one in three women worldwide – an estimated 736 million – have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime [Source: WHO, 2021]. Yet most professionals who meet GBV at work have never been trained to recognize it. The physical signs are the easiest to see. The early warning signs – coercive control, digital surveillance and economic abuse – are the ones that get missed, and they often come first.
This course gives you a structured, evidence-based way to recognize every form of gender-based violence, assess risk with care, and respond in a trauma-informed way. It is built for professionals who need skills they can use on the job from the first week.
A PROFESSIONAL TOOLKIT YOU CAN USE THE DAY YOU DOWNLOAD IT
Every lecture comes with two downloads. The first is a Practical Tool – a reference card, checklist, worksheet, matrix or template – supplied as an editable Word document. Download it, open it and start filling it in. There is nothing to rebuild or retype. Save your completed version, and go back to a clean copy every time the situation comes up in your own work.
The second is a Resource Guide in PDF – the desk reference behind the tool, with the definitions, legal frameworks and verified sources you need to apply it with confidence.
This is how they work in practice:
· Preparing a workplace safety review? Open the Vulnerability Profiling Assessment Tool and the Environmental Threat Assessment Template and work through them on site.
· A colleague believes they are being tracked? Work through the Device Hardening Audit Checklist and the OSINT Cleanse 6-Step Worksheet together, step by step.
· Concerned about what you are seeing in someone’s situation? The Coercive Control Recognition Checklist and the Economic Abuse Classification Matrix help you structure your observations before you refer.
· Quoting prevalence figures in a report or funding proposal? The WHO Regional Prevalence Reference Card and the Data Citation Quick Reference keep your numbers accurate and correctly cited.
These are working assets you keep. Build them into your own procedures, adapt them to your organization, and reach for them whenever you need them.
What you receive:
· 20 Practical Tools (editable Word) – ready to fill in, save and reuse
· 20 Resource Guides (PDF) – one for every lecture
· 5 Section Learner Guides (PDF) – a complete reference for each Section
· The complete Course 1 Toolkit in the final lecture – two Master Compendiums that bring every Resource Guide and every Practical Tool together, in course order, in two print-ready files
That is 45 downloadable resources, plus the two Master Compendiums.
BUILT ON VERIFIED, CITABLE EVIDENCE
Every statistic and legal reference in this course traces back to a primary source. The curriculum draws on WHO global prevalence data, the WHO/UN Women RESPECT Women framework, the UK Domestic Abuse Act 2021, EU Directive 2024/1385 on combating violence against women and domestic violence, and ILO Convention No. 190 on violence and harassment in the world of work. Very few courses on Udemy bring these frameworks together in one structured curriculum.
WHAT YOU WILL COVER
· Section 1: Foundations – global GBV prevalence across all six WHO regions, the trauma-informed response lens, the full GBV typology (physical, sexual, psychological, economic and technology-facilitated), and the statutory definitions in the UK Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
· Section 2: Threat Recognition – situational awareness with the Cooper Color Code, a structured vulnerability assessment across six domains (social connectivity, economic autonomy, environmental safety, digital footprint exposure, institutional access and prior victimization history), environmental threat assessment and boundary-setting.
· Section 3: Physical Threat Landscape – surveillance and stalking indicators, civilian surveillance detection route planning, the four stalking behavioral patterns, and proportional, lawful evasion decisions.
· Section 4: Digital Defense – technology-facilitated GBV under EU Directive 2024/1385, a smart device hardening and geolocation audit, a 6-step OSINT cleanse, and your personal digital defense architecture.
· Section 5: Invisible Threats and Capstone – coercive control and economic abuse across four domains (isolation, financial control, psychological manipulation and social restriction), peer accountability network design, and your Six-Domain Personal GBV Threat Assessment, completed in the Course 1 Capstone Integration Worksheet.
WHY IT MATTERS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
Duty of care is becoming law. More than 50 countries have ratified ILO Convention No. 190, which requires them to address violence and harassment in the world of work, including gender-based violence [Source: ILO, 2026]. EU Directive 2024/1385 sets common rules across all 27 EU member states, including on cyber-stalking and online harassment [Source: European Union, 2024]. The UK Domestic Abuse Act 2021 brought controlling or coercive behavior and economic abuse into its statutory definition of domestic abuse [Source: UK Government, 2021]. And violence against women is estimated to cost around 2 percent of global GDP – roughly USD 1.5 trillion a year [Source: UN Women, 2016].
This course gives you the competencies these frameworks expect from the people who carry that duty of care.
A TWO-COURSE PATHWAY
This is Course 1 of the Global Personal Safety Masterclass. Course 1 builds recognition – knowing exactly what you are looking at. Course 2, GBV Defense Mastery: Essential Countermeasure Skills and Crisis Protocols, builds on your completed Personal GBV Threat Assessment with countermeasures, crisis communication, survivor support pathways and organizational policy.
Enroll today, download your toolkit, and start putting it to work in your own role.
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Educational disclaimer: this course provides awareness and recognition training on gender-based violence. It is not legal, medical, psychological or counseling advice. Laws and support services differ by jurisdiction. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
