Programs for Your Organization
“Among the Most Effective Conflict Resolution and Stress Management Programs Available for Individuals, Groups, Organizations and Businesses Today…”
Professional and Key Note Speaking, Workshops, Retreats, Seminars & Lunch and Learns
It is a well-established fact that when employees and managers feel calm, centered, energized, powerful and respected the environment in which they function is positively charged and optimized for success. Productivity and efficiency levels can rise dramatically, and absenteeism and staff turnover significantly reduced.
Would you like to provide a useful and lasting learning experience for your organization or team? Begin with these programs designed to meet a range of workplace challenges. The titles and objectives will give you an idea of what to expect based on the subject.
Then we will meet with you to create a program that's specific to you and your group. In addition, Aikido Network works with a team of trainers who have expertise in stress management, leadership development, strategic planning, customer service, and adventure-based programming.
How does this type of training benefit the employer?
These hands-on training programs translate into effective resource management, unleashing the employees' hidden potential to deal with today's aggressive environment. As a result, statistics prove that stress-related absenteeism and staff turnover is reduced. Therefore, morale is raised, and more emphasis is put on workplace safety, creating a better sense of employee loyalty to the company.
Utilizing the time-honoured principals of the non-violent Japanese martial art, Aikido (the way of harmony with energy), we teach both staff and managers how to develop truly effective resolution skills, the dynamics of positive/cooperative relationships and masterful leadership abilities. Participants will grow as individuals and your organization will prosper as a direct result of their enhanced personal confidence, the application of newly learned, practical skills and a heightened general awareness. Tangible benefits for both parties are assured - a win/win endeavor!
Customized programs to fit your organization’s needs
The Conflict Answer:
Transforming Conflict into Progress
The perception that conflict equals contest, struggle, and stress has a profound impact on how it is managed by individuals and organizations. This workshop will help you find new ways to deal with conflict effectively and utilize its energy. Emphasis is on appreciation, understanding and working with your "opponents" instead of against them. You'll examine beliefs about conflict that hold you back, practice skills such as centering, listening, and managing emotions, and strengthen your ability to make new choices. This workshop is about managing self in stress and conflict by changing your viewpoint.
Participants will learn how to:
- Turn stress into productive energy
- Create a state of centeredness in conflict
- Make communicating effortless and powerful
- Create harmonious win/win relationships
Stress Busters:
Calming the Storm within
Stress build-up is a main contributor to the deterioration of health, productivity, and vibrant living today. Along with feelings of frustration and anger, stress is a thief of balance and productive energy. This workshop will provide methods and tools to relieve pressure, and prevent the build-up of stress.
Participants will learn how to:
- Become Centered in daily life
- Relax the mind, body and spirit
- Turn stress into productive energy
- Let go of old negative programing
Aikido and Conflict:
Getting on the Mat
This program is for kinesthetic learners who like to immerse themselves in the educational experience. You will go to an aikido "dojo" (place of practice), put on a gi (practice uniforms) and learn how to blend with an attack – both physical and verbal – and practice applying aikido principles to everyday workplace conflicts. Purpose: To provide an "out-of-the-box" training experience combining aikido, communication skills and conflict management. This program is available in small and large group, and individual settings.
Participants will learn how to:
- Give in to get desired results
- Co-create solutions in conflict for a win/win result
- Create a state of centeredness in everyday life
- Turn stress into productive energy
- Make life more effortless and powerful
- Create harmonious relationships
Benevolent Control:
Navigating Physical Aggression
This course is specifically designed for individuals working in potentially hostile or aggressive environments, by providing a basic understanding in methods of subject control tactics without injuring the aggressor(s). This program is available in small and large group, and individual settings.
Participants will learn:
- Reactionary gap and tactical positioning
- Escapes, come-alongs and takedowns
- Escort position and Pressure points
- Pins, controls
Aikido Retreat:
Relax and Recharge your batteries
Unmanaged stress and unresolved conflict has reached epidemic proportions in society today. This retreat will relax and energize individuals, while offering fresh new ways to manage aggressive environments and situations. This involves bringing the mind and body together, using simple and powerful kinesthetic exercises and techniques from the gentle martial art of Aikido (the way of harmony with energy). Learn how to “flow with” your “partner”, rather than “work against” your “opponent”, in a relaxed, centered state.
Participants will learn how to:
Executive Personal Safety:
Heightening Environmental Awareness
This program is a set of awareness, assertiveness, and verbal confrontation skills with safety strategies and physical techniques that enable someone to successfully prevent, resist, or escape a negative situation. Personal safety training can increase your options and help you prepare responses to slow down, de-escalate, or interrupt an incident. Training topics include safety in the home, at work, on the street, while traveling abroad, while taking public transportation, and neighborhood safety. This program is available in small and large group, and individual settings.
Participants will learn how to:
- Trust internal instinct
- Change fear into energy
- Change indecision into action
- Use easy self-protection techniques
Performance Coaching:
Expedited One on One Training
If your needs are to work one-on-one, or you have employees that could benefit from personal coaching, private sessions are available in confidence building, personal safety, self-protection, self-management, and coping with change, stress and conflict.
Customized workshops may be commissioned upon request. Duration times for the current workshops may be shortened or extended as required.