Martial arts in education

Martial arts in the pedagogical area promotes and supports the development of generally valuable social, personal and professional skills and means...

professional methodical use of the (social) educational and personality-building principles and content of traditional Far Eastern martial arts
Integration of modern Western educational approaches (e.g. from nature and adventure education)
holistic approach with “head, heart and hand”
Observation and attention to the needs, resources and deficits of the client
Definition of specific learning goals for changing/expanding thinking, feeling, experiencing
Spatial-mental shelter (dojo) as a learning space
focus on the exercise principle,
process orientation

In general, martial arts pedagogical offers always have the effect of promoting...

of health and self-confidence on a physical, mental and spiritual level
the clarity in thinking and feeling,
experience the intensity in self and in others,
the ability to organize and orientate yourself
the ability to perceive and organize one's own needs and those of others
the ability to enter into and form relationships
a constructive ability to deal with conflict
of mindfulness and self-reflection

The martial artist as a pedagogue designs and shapes the learning arrangements through an on the Relationship offer based on pillars of responsibility and trustthat one Transmission of the pedagogical content via the principle of resonance allows.

Rei-Ai (Respect and Harmony)

feedback

After the successful start of the KKM group settings with some of our young people, we gratefully accepted Ms. Nachtlberger's offer at the beginning of the Covid period to also be able to act in a small setting.

Since March, several of our participants, whom we look after for a year with the goal of job readiness, have been attending the KKM offer in individual settings. Ms. Nachtlberger manages to create a trusting environment in a very short time, in which the young people can get involved with what is usually very unusual and new and can try things out with great curiosity. After a short conversation prepared with our coaches, the young people learn in simple (physical) exercises and theoretical inputs, among other things, to feel their bodies, to relax and to focus, but also to promote their concentration and to have more confidence in themselves listen. According to the principle of helping people to help themselves, the participants tell us that they learned exercises to do at home/to imitate in the first unit and have already tried them. Most of them are initially enthusiastic about archery, but also about the calmness and the (loving) way in which Mrs. Nachtlberger treats them. (The Do it team would like to thank you for the professional exchange and the extensive cooperation in 2020 and will be happy to take advantage of the offer next year as a supplement to our program at the request of the participants!)

Team of trainers from Do it!/Ausbildungsfit/Itworks/Netzwerk Berufsassistenz

“OCTOPUS MENTORING is a measure that offers young people and young adults support in resocialization and integration into the labor market. In our work, we subject both the aspirant and the set action as well as the social environment to a holistic view.

Our aspirants often exhibit personal deficits in behavior and in controlling their responses to change. In 2014, at the invitation of Ms. Mag.a Nachtlberger, we were able to get to know the basic values in the professional educational use of martial arts at the Budo Education Congress in Kirchschlag near Linz. The experience that we gained aroused further interest in me as a mentor, and so I found out from Ms. Mag.a Nachtlberger about possible (pedagogically oriented) applications of KOKORO-DO martial arts mentoring in the course of OCTOPUS MENTORING. A test was started with an aspirant because of his personality structure and his multiple problems. After a relatively short time, the aspirant showed considerable positive changes in behavior as a result of being accompanied by Ms. Mag.a Nachtlberger. What was particularly striking was the young person's “ability to rest in oneself”, even in provocative situations. This experience encourages us in our work with adolescents and young adults to include educational or therapy-supporting martial arts mentoring as an optional component of OCTOPUS MENTORING.

Peter Paul Mikiss, OCTOPUS CEO

(...) The young aspirant with multiple problems showed after a relatively short time as a result of the support of Ms. Mag.^a Nachtlberger noted significant positive changes in behavior. What was particularly striking was the young person's "ability to rest in oneself", even in provocative situations. This experience encourages us in our work with adolescents and young adults to include educational or therapy-supporting martial arts mentoring as an optional component of OCTOPUS MENTORING.