Virginia DPOR-Approved · Course #0214031425 · 2 Elective CE Hours
DPOR-approved realtor safety CE — live, hands-on, two elective hours.
This is a Virginia DPOR-approved continuing education course — course #0214031425, worth 2 elective CE hours — and it is about the part of your job no licensing class covers: walking into an empty house with someone you met on the internet twenty minutes ago.
“Safety isn’t the absence of risk. It’s the presence of options.”
— Carmen “The Momba”
What is the Anxiety Tax™ costing your brokerage?
An agent carrying background worry about personal safety is an agent whose attention is already spent. Set the sliders to your office — or type the numbers straight in — and see what a single extra closing per agent would be worth.
One more closing per agent, per quarter $500K+ a quarter
$212,500
added per quarter — $850,000 a year
That is a 33% lift on current production of $637,500 a quarter.
Request your readiness sessionThis is an illustration of what one additional closing per agent is worth at the figures you entered — not a projection of course outcomes. No training can guarantee additional transactions. The argument is simply that attention spent on personal safety is attention not spent on clients.
What the course actually is
A practical, trauma-aware CE course for real estate professionals who want readiness — not fear-based training.
Real estate agents are trained thoroughly in contracts, negotiation, disclosure and ethics. They are almost never trained in situational awareness, boundary skills, or what to physically do when a showing stops feeling right. That is a strange gap in a profession whose core activity is meeting strangers alone in empty buildings, and it is the gap this course was built to close.
The two hours are split between understanding and doing. The first part covers how threat actually announces itself — baselines, behavioural clusters, pre-incident indicators, and the specific ways those show up in lockbox approaches, open houses, vacant listings and second-car arrivals. The second part gets agents on their feet to practise a small number of high-percentage physical responses that work regardless of size, strength or athletic background.
It is delivered on site — at your brokerage, your association, or inside a regular sales meeting — because the material does not survive being turned into a video module. Agents need to physically repeat a breakaway two or three times before it belongs to them.
The credit detail
- ApprovalVirginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR)
- Course number#0214031425
- Credit2 elective continuing education hours
- FormatLive and in person, hands-on participation
- Delivered atYour brokerage, your association, or your sales meeting
- ProviderMomba Promotions LLC — DPOR-approved Virginia real estate school
- InstructorCarmen “The Momba” Gulliksen, DPOR-approved CE instructor
- Service areaRichmond metro, Williamsburg, Petersburg, Charlottesville, Northern Virginia
This is the Commonwealth's only live, hands-on Realtor safety CE. Most safety credit available to Virginia agents is delivered as slides or video. Nothing here is delivered as slides or video.
Where agents are most exposed.
None of these are unusual situations. They are Tuesday.
- Internet leads and contacts you have never met in person
- Vacant properties in unfamiliar neighbourhoods
- Rural showings and raw land with no cell signal
- Open houses with unrestricted public access
- Evening and weekend appointments, alone
- The client who arrives in a second car you weren't expecting
- Lockbox approaches where your back is to the street
- Situations where the client knows the property better than you do
Real estate professionals routinely enter environments where the variables are unknown and control is limited. This course is built for exactly those moments — the ones where awareness on its own has run out of road.
Predict. Prevail. Persist.™
Applied to showings.
The same three phases that structure every Momba program, reframed for the way agents actually work.
Predict
Reading the appointment before it forms. Vetting an internet lead, setting up the showing so the geometry favours you, noticing the second car, and recognising the behavioural cluster that shows up at the lockbox a beat before anything happens.
Prevail
Doorways, stairwells and empty rooms. Who walks first, where you stand, how you keep a hallway open behind you, what your voice does, and two or three breakaways that work in business clothes when someone has already closed the distance.
Persist
What happens after. Reporting it to your broker, documenting it so it holds up, telling your family, and getting back into vacant listings without building a permanent fear around the job.
What agents walk away with.
Two hours is not long. The material is chosen to survive the drive home.
Physical skills
- Two to three high-percentage breakaway techniques
- Positioning and distance control for showings and open houses
- Basic balance disruption mechanics
- One default response under surprise conditions
Professional advantage
- Increased confidence during showings
- Reduced mental load around personal safety
- Greater composure under pressure
- More attention available for the client and the close
I hired Carmen to provide two hours of DPOR-certified CE safety training to my agents at Williamsburg Realty. It was outstanding! Carmen is knowledgeable, experienced, organized, personable, and real estate agent-focused. I highly recommend this class.
This is
- Awareness without anxiety
- Boundary skills rooted in professionalism
- Decision clarity under pressure
- Practical readiness for real environments
This is not
- Fear-based training
- Worst-case obsession
- Tactical fantasy scenarios
- Unrealistic weaponry
For broker-owners and managing brokers.
Three questions worth sitting with before the next sales meeting.
What does your current agent safety program actually consist of? For most offices the honest answer is an email after something happens somewhere else in the state.
If an incident occurred during a showing tomorrow, what protocol would your office follow? Not what would you hope happens — what is written down, and who knows it.
If your agents weren't carrying background worry about personal exposure, how many more closings could they give full attention to each quarter? That is the Anxiety Tax™, and it is a production question as much as a safety one.
Delivering this course inside a sales meeting costs the office two hours, gives every attending agent two elective CE hours they need anyway, and replaces a vague policy gap with something specific. Brokerages in Richmond, Midlothian, Chesterfield, Henrico, Glen Allen and Short Pump book it as a standing part of their training calendar.
A ready agent is a high-performing agent. They are the exact same person.
Who teaches it.
The course is developed and delivered by Carmen “The Momba” Gulliksen — an active professional boxer with a 6–2 record, a 30+ year martial arts instructor holding multiple black belts and Shihan recognition, and a health researcher whose academic work covers PTSD and ADHD. She holds an MBA, an MSIS and a postgraduate diploma in health research, and is the founder of Momba Promotions LLC, a DPOR-approved Virginia real estate school.
Her work on agent safety has been published in Real Estate Agent Magazine and featured across industry podcasts. The methodology is trauma-aware and evidence-informed, which in practice means the course is built around how people's brains and bodies actually behave under stress rather than around how anyone wishes they behaved.
Questions brokers ask first.
How many CE credits is this course worth?
The course is approved by the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation for 2 elective continuing education hours, under course number 0214031425.
Is this course approved in Virginia?
Yes. Momba Promotions LLC is a DPOR-approved Virginia real estate school and Carmen Gulliksen is a DPOR-approved CE instructor. The course carries Virginia DPOR approval as course #0214031425 for 2 elective hours.
Is it online or in person?
In person, live and hands-on. Agents get up and physically practise the skills. That is the point of the course and the reason it is not offered as a video module.
Where do you teach it?
At your brokerage, your association, or your sales meeting. Sessions run throughout the Richmond metro — Midlothian, Chesterfield, Henrico, Glen Allen, Short Pump, Mechanicsville — and travel regularly to Williamsburg, Petersburg, Charlottesville and Northern Virginia.
Do I need to be fit, or have any martial arts background?
No. The physical material is chosen specifically because it works without strength, speed or prior training, and every technique is scaled to the people in the room. Agents participate in business clothes and nobody is put on the spot.
Can individual agents attend, or is it brokerages only?
Both. Brokerages and associations book private group sessions for their agents, and individual agents can join an open session. Get in touch for the current schedule.
Is this fear-based or scenario-heavy “what if” training?
No. It is deliberately the opposite. The course is trauma-aware and built around professional composure and decision clarity, not worst-case rehearsal or tactical fantasy.
Bring it to your office.
Fifteen minutes is enough to cover format, scheduling and group options.