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You're not always alone when it matters.

STYAN was created because uncertainty does not discriminate nor does it take days off.

Calm, practical awareness and personal safety skills should be understandable, usable under pressure and learned together with the people you are around the most.

Build shared, calm awareness.

Learn without blame or fear

Best done alongside someone you trust.

This isn't something you use alone.

Go through it together.

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4 Learning Tiers

24/7 Access

Choose Your Learning Path

Four progressive tiers. One goal — real safety for real life.

Awareness

 Spot it

Avoid it

Stay Safe

$15 per month

Learn practical awareness skills designed for everyday life, uncertainty, and stressful situations.

Build safer habits, stronger judgement, and greater confidence through calm, easy to follow lessons you can return to at any time.

Response

Includes Tier ONE

 Responses under stress

Disengagement strategies

$27 per month

Learn simple self defence principles designed to be remembered under pressure and practised together safely.

Develop practical response skills through clear instruction focused on ordinary people, not extreme situations.

Protection

 Includes Tiers 1 & 2

Police interaction basics

Reducing legal escalation

$35 per month

Understand how to better protect yourself and others while reducing unnecessary escalation and legal risk.

Learn the realities of personal safety, decision making, and responsible response before and after physical encounters.

Recovery

 Complete System

Trauma informed support

Emotional processing

$45 per month

Because what happens after an incident matters too.

Explore recovery, emotional processing, and the longer term impact of stressful experiences through supportive lessons and guided reflection.

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Better together.
Stronger together.
Safer together.

Practical awareness and personal safety should feel understandable, and usable under pressure.

These lessons are designed for ordinary people navigating everyday life, uncertainty, and stressful moments using simple principles that are easier to remember when it matters most.

Whether you are protecting yourself, supporting someone beside you, or learning alongside people you trust, the goal remains the same: calm capability when it counts.

Learn privately, at your own pace, and together with the people you spend the most time with.

No uniforms. No intimidation. Just practical awareness, decision making, response, legal understanding and recovery.

Learn Together

No Victim

Blaming

Real World

& Legal

Trauma Informed

& Respectful.

Need Help Choosing?

Memberships are hosted on my Patreon page.

Contact me should you have any queries.

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Safer Than You Are Now

Trauma-informed personal safety education for everyone.
An initiative by Damian Porter
Former NZ SAS Commando and WA Police Officer
also known as The How Not To Die Guy

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