“Producing outcomes of resilience and emotional intelligence in children and teachers”
There is a growing recognition amongst our educators that today's children need a different set of life skills from past generations.
Today's children need to be emotionally intelligent to be successful in life. This means being able to make good choices in life, having self-confidence, knowing yourself and therefore being able to take informed risks without giving up when things go wrong. In other words, children need to be resilient to cope with life's challenges successfully.
As a conflict resolution initiative Strike Free excludes the use of striking, kicking or any other type of force that could pose a risk to participants and teach a potential bully aggressive skills.
As a physical education program it promotes fitness in children as well as helping children become more knowledgable and comfortable with their bodies' abilities.
Strike Free aims to communicate to children the core behaviour values of self-discipline, determination, respect, and confidence. It's success lies in its ability to facilitate the effective learning of essential life skills whilst engaging children in a range of fun and physically challenging role plays, self defence techniques and strategic games It is a fun and practical application of Force Field Theory that develops children's:
Force Field Theory is an exciting and new approach to conflict resolution. Grounded in academic research and psychological theories of human behaviour, Force Field Theory draws on Contemporary Martial Arts to teach children and adults to better deal with conflict, critical incidents and bullying in the workplace or playground.
Outcomes of Strike Free include how to be:
- Resilient - having the capacity to cope with life's challenges without being self-defeating.
- Emotionally intelligent - increasing competencies in self-awareness, self-control, listening, resolving conflicts & cooperation.
- Fit & gain knowledge about the body's capabilities
- Safe - by learning self-defence techniques which exclude the use of striking, kicking or any other type of force that could pose a risk to children