One of the responsibilities I was honored to take on at my job this year was control over our children's self defense program. I assisted previously in leading numerous kid's "bully defense" workshops, and had more experience working with kids directly than my coworker who ran our self-defense program, a kickboxing and Crossfit instructor. One of the major changes I wanted to make to our children's programs was to make the language and ideas we were presenting in our workshops consistent with our adult programs. For instance, in our teens and adults workshops, we present ideas about trusting our intuition in self-defense situations. I felt this idea was important to include when talking to our kids as well, if in slightly different terms. I worked with Annie, the head of our self-defense program to update the lesson plans for our quarterly children's workshops to reflect some of these changes. I then got to put my new ideas into practice while leading a workshop in mid-May. We will continue to experiment and tweak this curriculum moving forward in order to offer the best possible programs for our kiddos.
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