Martial arts in education

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 in 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.

The wish of my daughter, who has Asperger's autism, more strength, courage and self-confidence, an "inner
building a protective shield” led us to Doris Nachtlberger.
Even the mysterious exercise room exudes something soothing and sacred and it doesn't fall
difficult to immerse yourself in the world that Doris Nachtlberger tells about. She goes with big
attentiveness and loving caution towards the young, still shy Kokorodo student
you with respect and curiosity, in order to absorb what concerns and worries are there. she
uses figurative language that a child can understand, but never in a way that the child can understand
not taken seriously but feels deeply addressed. At first it was more about mine
To give daughter "tools" so that she - by means of vivid pictures - mistress of her often herself
spinning thoughts, the first physical exercises were learned quickly in order to
To locate the body, to find and strengthen one's own center. Then it was about the conscious
Perceiving one's own strength and using it in a mindful "two-on-one fight", like a
choreographed dance to try: With gentle touches and powerful calls
on the one hand, with sticks and even swords or sabers. Anxiety reflexes caused by a physical
Confrontation can be triggered, should be able to be controlled and converted
are transformed into a soft absorption and dissipation of energy. And it's always about being with yourself
to stay, to feel yourself, to find and keep the focus - be it with a bow and arrow or
via the path of breathing meditations to bring peace and strength back to you.
What Doris Nachtlberger shares and passes on is something very special. It is a dive and
Trying things out in another world, but above all the experience of a loving one
Cooperation in great esteem with the aim of providing the young Kokorodo student with an abundance
equipped with tools and strategies to help the - for young people - often puzzling
and to make energy-sapping everyday (school) life more bearable, yes, this one with more strength and courage
to oppose For this we thank Doris Nachtlberger from the bottom of our hearts.