What is Street Training?

Street Training is the art of constantly transforming ourselves and our streets both collectively and individually. It's commonly understood that our surroundings have a powerful effect on us. Street Training teaches us that we can have an equally powerful effect on our surroundings with our thoughts and behaviour. Increased awareness and engagement are developed through the regular practice of exploring ourselves and our localities safely and joyfully. Many street training activities only take a few seconds, but the effects they have are accumulative and confidence building, and perhaps any behaviour practiced for long enough becomes instinct.


We produced a street training manual which contains a wide variety of people's knowledge, and just like different ways of using public space, the ideas are sometimes conflicting. The manual contains techniques passed on to you from people of Linz, Austria, and London. Street training has two aspects, action and inaction; the Path of Safety and the Path of Joy suggest consciously engaged action in the streets, and Doing Nothing suggests techniques for doing as little as possible, thereby enabling effective action.
Everyone who uses the street considers safety, but joy and doing nothing are usually overlooked. It is vitally important that you study all three aspects. Too much focus on action and your calmness will diminish, too much focus on inaction may result in indifference.