This is why Alain Burrese created the Survive A Shooting course:
After the July 2012 mass shooting at the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, Alain made and posted this video to his Best Safety Tips YouTube channel. (Later moved to the Survive and Defend channel.)
Alain made a commitment right then to do something to help people so they wouldn’t have to live in fear and be helpless victims when these sick killers took out their frustrations and sick notions against innocent people.
Less than six months later, December 2012, the terrible Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred. Being a father of an elementary school age daughter, this senseless killing hit Alain hard and he reconfirmed that he must do something to help people.
At this time, Alain had considerable experience teaching people. He’d taught conflict resolution, safety and self-defense classes and courses, as well as the martial art of Hapkido. But these Active Shooter and Active Threat situations needed something a bit different. So to add to his knowledge of safety and self-defense, Alain started studying Active Shooter incidents and how to respond to them.
This study included books, DVD programs, on-line courses, and articles (both on-line and magazines) on the topic. It included networking and discussing the topic with other experts. It also included attending an 8-hour Emergency Response To An Armed Intruder course taught by Safariland Training Group certified instructors. Alain then went through the instructor training and became certified himself. Over the last three and a half years, Alain has taught as part of a team that has taught this 8-hour course to around 4,000 community members on what to do when the unthinkable happens.
Alain started appearing on radio shows around the country to share information to help people when these events happen. He’s been on the radio in Florida, New York, California, Montana, Nevada, Michigan, Texas, and he continues to appear as time permits.
Alain found with all of this study that many of the resources lacked what he wanted to see in a book on the topic, so he is working on his book Survive A Shooting. It will be the definitive book resource for people on this topic. But just reading a book or watching a short video on YouTube isn’t enough.
Literally thousands of evaluations of the course Alain and the team were teaching commented on how empowering the training was. But because that course takes a team to teach, logistically it is difficult to get it out to more organizations. The 8-hour time commitment is also difficult for many businesses and organizations.
Alain wanted a course that would still empower people and show them that people don’t have to be helpless victims and that there are things that can be done before, during and after these horrific events to increase your odds of surviving. Alain wanted to empower people and teach them to be survivors.
The Survive a Shooting course does just that. It is only 4 hours long, so it is much easier for many businesses and organizations to fit into their schedules. Alain can bring this course to businesses and organizations all over the world. Bring him in and he can teach your people. So logistically it is also much easier than the course taught by the team of instructors.
Alain is saddened by the increase in these horrific events. But he is glad that his goal, standing out in front of the Batman movie poster, of helping people in these situations is now materializing on such a large scale. Helping thousands of people is not enough, he wants to help tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. People should not be helpless victims!
To increase these numbers into the hundreds of thousands, or millions, yes, let’s think big and help millions, Alain will finish the book to introduce the basic information to people in that format. He will continue to teach as many as he can, but realizing that he is limited to so many days a year, he is also creating a Train the Trainer course so others will be able to learn from him and use the Survive a Shooting course as a platform and class to teach their own organizations and communities. He’s also looking at developing an on-line course to help others in that format.
Read a Review of the Survive A Shooting course.
Yes, the goal and commitment Alain made in front of that movie theater is materializing. Stay tuned for these new developments to occur, but right now, go ahead and book Alain to teach your group or organization while he still has time slots on his calendar.
Learn to survive, you don’t have to be a victim!
