Welcome to our comprehensive education platform in rhetorics, intelligence, and security. Our courses are designed to empower professionals with practical skills and deep insights, blending traditional wisdom with modern methodologies for real-world impact.
Are you a recruiter, talent scout or into sales and need to tune your skills? From how to plan, approach, network, and eventually recruit a client. Theories, workshops, and exercises will be combined with training in public venues and with real characters. You will learn how to use the keys of persuasion, active listening, priming, pitching, and timing. You will learn how to target, take a cold approach, cultivate and pitch a person based on rhetorical skills. You get all the literature and theory and multiple scenarios to apply the tradecraft to real situations with role-players and actors.
We can offer a customized course addressing not only regular travel safety but knowledge and skills beyond. We will not only address the risks of the highest impact but also of high likelihood. We will offer how to identify insiders, outsiders and radicalized extremists, and how to manage critical situations like interrogation/detention/ lethal attacks, but also how to mitigate the risk of fraud/intellectual property theft/ espionage. Verbal and nonverbal communication, interpersonal & intercultural communication, risk assessments and de-escalation techniques will be part of the training.
To deliberately changing an appearance, creating an alternative persona, i.e. an alias. The training is about how to build an alter ego. The training is based on rhetoric, Witness psychology, Non-Police Behavior training. You will learn to put emphasis on your own persona, create an alternative persona or fictional persona. This is a workshop which combines a lot of practical exercises with a lot of fun, worthwhile for both clandestine work and writers.
A workshop about body language and non-verbal cues, how to identify comfort and discomfort, to build rapport. You will be conducting real tasks at public venues. You will learn how to interpret and decode human behavior and to use non-verbal language to influence others. We will study some authentic spy cases as well as politicians in the media. Practical exercises will be filmed and studied on the spot and identify individual flaws, hence ensuring comprehensive and extensive all-round training which guarantees improvement and success.
In order to conduct meetings overt or covert, you will need to possess situational awareness and make a risk assessment. This is especially important if you are working in hostile or volatile areas, hence you're collecting sensitive intelligence/data as a journalist or anthropologist, for instance. You will learn the basic principles and how to make an assessment and how to take mitigation measures and use safe communication and meeting measures.
How to plan and organize a writing. The training includes not only lectures from authors but also exercises where you will meet your customized character at a bar or café and practice interviewing and writing a narrative based on the meeting. You will also conduct smaller ice-breaking meetings. You will have the keys and structure to conduct an efficient meeting and write the essay.
Rhetoric is the ancient science applicable to the communication of today, is not just speech but also interaction and all interpersonal communication. I offer a wide spectrum of rhetorical topics, merging them with best practices within human intelligence and operational security.