VERBAL JUDO PRODUCTS

BOOK: Redirecting Behavior with Words:  $9.95

For anyone who wants to deal more effectively with people.  This book provides the reader with descriptions and examples of the maxims of Verbal Judo.  The skills can then be easily translated into everyday use in business and professional situations. 

BOOK: Words as a Force Option:  $30.00

This book will help police officers and other contact professionals develop verbal strategies that can transform potentially explosive encounters into positive resolutions. It addresses the most difficult problems of the street encounter where quick thinking and spontaneous verbal response often make the difference between life and death. The author explores all kinds of confrontation rhetoric and offers both a theoretical and practical account of how to handle street situations. Following an introduction to the problems of street communication, the author focuses on five basic rhetorical elements: perspective, audience, voice, purpose and organization. The principles and techniques described can be used in practically every verbal encounter. Each chapter includes case studies that give readers practice in developing rhetorical strategies for handling street encounters and dealing with the public. The final chapter provides a professional model for police officers. It presents a definition of the law enforcement profession that will command respect from the public and offer those in the profession a firm sense of identity.

BOOK: The Verbal Judo Way of Leadership-Empowering the Thin Blue Line:  $21.95

For many years Dr. Thompson has sought to present the Verbal Judo philosophy on leadership in written form. Now available from Loose Leaf Law Publications this May, “The Verbal Judo Way of Leadership – Empowering the Thin Blue Line from the Inside Up” is a unique co-authorship between George Thompson, founder and president of The Verbal Judo Institute and VJ instructor / retired “Green Beret” Greg Walker.

Featuring exclusive new material on the art of tactical communications and the elusive art of superior leadership, Dr. Thompson and Greg Walker combine their diverse professional backgrounds with their shared Vision of Verbal Judo concepts to help Peace Officers achieve excellence as law enforcement supervisors, managers, and administrators.  Drawing from Dr. Thompson’s street and courtroom proven Verbal Judo philosophy and his co-author’s dual careers as an Army Special Forces combat leader and civilian peace officer “The Verbal Judo Way of Leadership – Empowering the Thin Blue Line from the Inside Up” is MUST reading for the 21^st Century law enforcement officer, First Responder, and military man or woman intent on achieving true success as a leader in his or her chosen profession.

DVD-R Format Two-Hour Review:  $129.95

A two-hour overview of the Principles and Tactics of the Verbal Judo Program presented by Dr. George J. Thompson, President and Founder of Verbal Judo, to a live audience.

The review contains the main modules of the course to include: Course Goals, Professionalism, Developing a Habit of Mind toward conflict, the Arts of Representation, Translation, and Mediation, the "Three Truths" of communicating effectively with others, The Five Step, The "Meet and Greet Contact," The Four Appeals of Persuasion, the twenty-four Principles of staying Disinterested or unbiased during conflict, and the Verbal Judo Maxims for changing our thinking under pressure from others.

AUDIO: Compact Disc:  $99.95  

For any listener who wants the essence of Verbal Judo as taught to over 500,000 people. From corporate and government boardrooms and offices to Law Enforcement agencies across North America and Western Australia.

Disc One: Birth of a Communications Samurai--  How to Handle Verbal Assault: Develop a Warrior's Habit of Mind.

Disc Two: Become a Contact Professional -- The Three Survival Truths of Communication

Disc Three: Verbal Judo, The Martial Arts of the Mind and the Mouth -- How the Communication Warrior Can Change Reality with Words.

Disc Four: How to "Read" Your Opponent -- How to Master Your Opponent: Flex the Basic Language Principle.

Disc Five: Five Necessary Skills to Generate Voluntary Compliance.

Disc Six: Ten Ways to Get What You Want NOW!

LAMINATED POLICE STYLE TACTICAL CARD: $3.00 ( Law Enforcement Only )

For Police and other enforcement professionals who want quick information at their fingertips in the field. The double sided, thick laminated card contains the Five-Step Hard Style and the Eight-Step Traffic Stop on one side, and the other listing S.A.F.E.R., the five conditions when words have failed and we must move to other options.

For orders of 50 plus cards the shipping costs will be waived and deducted by our shipping department.

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A NEW PROJECT FOR BETTERING YOUR COMMUNITY

We are also beginning a new site on the prevention of bullying and will continue to add content almost daily.  This will be a site dedicated to the understanding of bullying and the strategies and tactics of Verbal Judo in bully prevention and management.  Go to:

www.managebullying.com or directly to http://managebullying.com/

Contact me with your thoughts here or directly through the Manage Bullying site.  I hope you will give this serious problem serious thought and attention and we believe we are in the position to help society as a whole by doing our part.  Please help us by mentoring a youth, writing your local government and schools regarding your thought for proactive discourse and action, and by contacting us with your ideas and opinions and how you think we can help your community. 

W Lee Fjelstad, Vice President, Verbal Judo Institute, Inc.