Embodied Leadership through Aikido

Do you want your leaders, and future leaders, to learn skills such as:

• being efficient

• being flexible

• being centred

• being connected

• being empathic

• being resilient

More deeply than viewing PowerPoint slides will ever allow?

Worldwide Application

Companies all over the world, from Japan to Germany, to the USA have used the principles of Aikido to inspire leaders, cultivate charisma, and reinforce lessons learned intellectually through practice.

That’s because Aikido’s unique characteristics translate so directly from its battlefield origins, through the dojo, into the workplace.

Modern leaders in today’s world so desperately need the skills listed above, but trying to teach them through traditional methods is as effective as trying to learn how to play a sport by reading about it in a book.

Taking these leadership principles and demonstrating them through safe, enjoyable, and stimulating somatic practice will not only engage your leaders with the training but the engagement with physical learning it will embed these principles and ideas more deeply than any other form of learning.

David Ellard, the founder of Mind and Body Movement and Kinnection GmbH, is a highly experienced 4th° black belt in Aikido and has taught and studied this martial art all over the world. He combines these decades of study with a business background in Learning and Development and will work with you to build uniquely tailored programme that reinforces the key learning objectives of your business and provides demonstrable real-world benefits to your business.

 Recent clients have included market-leading organisations such as Toyota and EY (Ernst and Young), so don’t be left behind, get in touch today to find out how these programs can help you