Welcome to our Verbal Self Defense Course that will do great things for both students, parents, teachers and the whole community. This course adds a whole new dimension of character building skills to our martial arts program.
Giving advice to our children or even to ourselves to”just ignore” someone exhibiting bullying behaviors, or to “just walk away”, while they sound good and will work, must be preceded with a whole new thought process. We start this program off with the concept of Anger Guards and Mushin. What is Mushin? This is an Oriental philosophy that is the basis for all of us keeping our cool.
For more information on Verbal Self Defense and Bully Prevention Tips for Parents check out this website. I believe that every child in our community along with their parents should learn the steps involved with Verbal Judo. It is the same program taught to almost one million police officers around the world and it works for children dealing with bullies, in our personal relationships and in most public situations we may find ourselves in.
To learn more we can schedule a Verbal Self Defense Seminar with your group of parents and follow it up with taking the course here at Balanced Life Skills. For more information on times and cost of the program please call or email us at: Balanced Life Skills
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Here is a talk given at Columbia University by ‘Doc’ Thompson about the basics of Verbal Judo (verbal self defense). These are the same principles we teach to our students in part of our bully prevention programs.
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