Hi James. Unfortunately, there is no one central location to sign-up for notifications. Your best bet would be joining a state gun group on Facebook, Forum, or through their website. You can also check with your local gun shops or gun clubs for notification lists about training. The theme is networking, networking, and networking with people and groups interested in personal defense will pay the biggest dividends.
Thanks
Deryck-PDN

Thank you Mr. Jan Francheschi! PDN, in my opinion, has the best collection of video based self defense training on the Internet. Of course I am a bit biased. I will share your message with Rob on the need for a Georgia class for the 2019 Tour! Maybe we can get someone down there next year.

TomC, thanks for your great comments and suggestions! Teaching classes for those disabled is a near and dear subject to me. I have a father with Parkinson’s, a wife with a partial disability, and several friends who have various levels of disabilities. It’s a larger group of the population than most realize. That’s why I wrote this article: https://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/article/disabled-shooting/
Thank you again for your comments and great suggestions! The instructors of the future will have to adapt to meet the needs of our students. Let’s hope that the “Tier One Operator” fantasy camps go the way of mullets.

Totally agree. I hope us younger instructors never forget we must still try to encourage hands on instruction. Thank you for your comment!

Thank you Chuck!

My last training class consisted of 14 able bodied 20-40 year olds and me, a 50+ male with a cane.
I got lots of guff in the classroom, but pushed myself on the range (without injury) to gain as much as possible from the course.
During one section teaching lateral movement while presenting accurate hits on target, I fell and still made 100% hits on target. The instructor used me as a teaching tool the next morning in the classroom by showing a couple of video clips of actual events where the defender fell. It is a common problem of shooting on the move.
He asked me how I maintained focus while falling. My answer, “I’m comfortable with falling.”
Later that day I actually got to help teach a couple of guys how to control an unplanned fall without losing focus on the threat.
Another lesson that day was the use of unconventional positions. When using cover I would overballance and have to step out to stay upright. The instructor had me lay on my stomach just back from the cover and roll out on my back, take the shot and roll back to cover.
Lesson?
Just because a class has a diverse student body doesn’t mean the slower students will hold the class back.
A good instructor will use the strengths of each student to offset their own weaknesses.

Let me mention a few more….

As David mentioned very briefly in passing, many of us range from profoundly to just somewhat disabled. And far more of the people who might want training are well past our prime. Having a class that includes a bunch of 20-somethings, and two or three of us old folks just simply doesn’t work.

Another issue that comes up far more often than it should are otherwise competent instructors who feel (or even SAY) “Forget everything you learned from anyone else… MY way is the only way”

Another problem area is the vast number of schools run by real or imagined Tier One Operators (or just ordinary “experienced” military or police instructors) where much of the course content is simply inappropriate for civilian defensive purposes. [Some of these courses are excellent for competitive shooting which is an entirely different topic]

As the author suggests, the future of self defense training will undoubtedly include hybrid, blended, and a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous learning — which will help with many of the issues mentioned in the article (especially scheduling and costs) but which will make it even more difficult for entry level and mid level students to evaluate the courses they are considering.