What is Street Training?

Street Training is the art of judging how to and how not to interact with place and people on the streets, by regularly, safely and joyfully exploring ourselves and the spaces we inhabit. Street Training teaches us that, by focusing our thoughts and behavior, we can have an effect on our surroundings equal to that which our surroundings exert upon us. As changes take place within the street trainer they also take place in the streets: it is a discipline that evolves interactively in relation to physical, social and mental structures that make up the city. Street Training focuses on the conditions of specific urban locations through the senses of specific individuals and frames them in a way that can be tested in any global city.

Street Training is an emergent 21st century Martial Art. It requires commitment and sustained practice, and encompasses the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of being. It rewards the Street Trainer with incremental changes in their ability to defend themselves against the bombardment of city life, and shape their environment positively.

you can download the Camberwell Street Training Manual here
http://malinky.org/files/camberwell_v4_ARTWORK.pdf
its the combined wisdom, on the subjects of safety and joy in the streets, of many people including people walking around the streets of Camberwell in summer 2007

Street Training Code/how to

In the streets where you are

Walk
Or
Take public transport
Or
Stay in one public place

Notice what you
See
Hear
Think
Feel
Desire
Do
Touch
Smell

Notice what others
Express
Hide
Do
Don’t do
Wear
Defend
Obstruct
Enforce
Challenge
Customize
Play with
Sell
Make
Carry
Do
And how they move

As you notice, decide how you will respond or not, react or not, proact or not, engage or not
Or
Spontaneously do what you feel and deal with the consequences