Workshop
Weapons, Violence and Reality		 
Instructor:  Rory Miller. Conflict is the essence of story-telling. Violence is the rawest and most visceral form of conflict.  Rory Miller, former Corrections Officer, Tactical Team leader and Contractor/Advisor in Iraq will help you get the details right.  The class will cover the context-- the who and why of violence-- as well as the nuts and bolts of chaos, damage and pain.  You'll get a taste of violence from the technical to the spiritual and understanding from the precursors to the aftermath.
WHEN: Jun 7 - Jul 4
COST: $15 for Premium Members
$25 for Basic & NON-Members
REGISTRATION: *** Registration Closed***
WHO: 


Rory Miller is a seventeen-year veteran of a metropolitan correctional system.  He spent seventeen years, including ten as a sergeant, with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office in Portland Oregon.  His assignments included Booking, Maximum Security, Disciplinary and Administrative Segregation, and Mental Health Units.  He was a CERT (Corrections Emergency Response Team) member for over eleven years and Team Leader for six.

His training has included over eight hundred hours of tactical training; witness protection and close-quarters handgun training with the local US Marshals; Incident Command System; Instructor Development Courses; AELE Discipline and Internal Investigations; Hostage Negotiations and Hostage Survival; Integrated Use of Force and Confrontational Simulation Instructor; Mental Health; Defensive Tactics, including the GRAPLE instructors program; Diversity; and Supervision.

Rory has designed and taught courses including Confrontational Simulations; Uncontrolled Environments; Crisis Communications with the Mentally Ill; CERT Operations and Planning; Defensive Tactics; and Use of Force for Multnomah County and other local agencies.

In 2008 Rory Miller left his agency to spend over a year in Iraq with the Department of Justice ICITAP program as a civilian advisor to the Iraqi Corrections System.

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a blackbelt in jujutsu and college varsities in judo and fencing.  He also likes long walks on the beach.

His writings have been featured in Loren Christensen’s “Fighter’s Fact Book 2: The Street”  Kane and Wilder’s “Little Black Book of Violence” and “The Way to Blackbelt.”  Rory is the author of “Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence” published by YMAA