This highly-interactive workshop is hand-tailored for the NYU Law School-Advanced Mediation Clinic.

Informed by modern neuroscience, positive psychology, and the peaceful martial art of Aikido, participants learn effective strategies and practices for collaborative conflict resolution, mediation, and communication.

This highly-interactive workshop is hand-tailored for the NYU School of Continuing Studies; Human Resources Department.

Informed by modern neuroscience, positive psychology, and Aikido, participants learn effective strategies and practices for cross-cultural communication, diversity/trauma informed leadership, and collaborative conflict resolution.

How we can build, nourish, and nurture our ability to bounce back, find new opportunities, and ultimately thrive when we are faced with difficult obstacles, adversity, and rapidly changing environments?

Colten Sensei approaches this topic as part of his “Teaching for Mastery” series, which draws upon neuroscience research, positive psychology, patterns found in nature, and best practices in pedagogy. He naturally and seamlessly connects this body of research with Aikido principles and practices.

Come join us for an engaging, one-and-a-half hour investigation into Resilience. Come prepared to move, learn, and practice concrete “takeaway” methods for boosting your individual and community resilience.

Please wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing in which you can move and bring a pen and notepad.

Aikidoists, somatic artists, teachers, and learners of all styles, affiliations, and levels of experience are warmly welcome…so please feel free to share this information with your networks of peeps.

Following the fundamental Aiki-principle of protection of life, we will not gather in Brattleboro this August for our annual Summer Ukemi Seminar with Charles Colten Sensei.

However, following the fundamental Aiki-priniciple of nurturing life, we’ll still gather as a community (online) for some collective movement and storytelling.

4:00-4:30pm – Aiki-Movement to get us in Sync together

4:00-6:00 pm – Gathering and Story Time

Please come and join together…prepared to move a little…and bring a story, poem, song, or joke to share.

Optional donations to support “River Valley Aikido” and “Aikido in the Schools”

Suggested donation: $15-35

Paypal to: aikidointheschools

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86829092673

If you are having financial difficulties during these times, there is no need to donate…

please just come and bring your ki J

Charles Colten Sensei (5th Dan Aikikai) will guest instruct at the Bond Street Dojo in New York City.

The class will be from 6-8pm and is open to students of all styles, affiliations, ages, and abilities.

For more information: charles@circle123.org

This workshop engages participants in the benefits of Social and Emotional Intelligence in guiding oneself, others, and organizations. Through an engaging, interactive process, participants learn, practice, and refine skills, techniques, and approaches to productive and meaningful communication.

Cross Cultural Communication and understanding, Stress Management, Collaborative Conflict Resolution, and Mindfulness-based Self Regulation are some of the skills that will be practiced.

Charles Colten, the Confluence Institute, and Keganin No Senshi Aikido (KNSA) will provide a Train the Trainer workshop for Veterans at the Harlem Vet Center.

Keganin No Senshi Aikido (KNSA) is a modified form of Aikido developed specifically for veterans and others with Post Traumatic Stress. It is taught gently and involves no throws, falls or rolls. 

The Train-the-Trainers workshops for  veterans, veteran facility staff, and counselors and therapists teaches fundamentals and enables participants  to see the benefits of incorporating our modified, no-falls form of Aikido as part of a treatment program for veterans with Post Traumatic Stress.

Charles Colten will teach a 2 hour workshop in Conflict Resolution at the NYU Law School Advanced Mediation Clinic. Principles of embodied leadership will be introduced and practiced. Supporting research will be provided as to why these methods not only make sense, but are effective in practice.

For more information, contact: charles@circle123.org

Teaching for Mastery is an interactive workshop, which brings best practices in pedagogy and advances neuroscience to teachers of somatic arts, ranging from public speaking and embodied leadership to yoga, martial arts, healing practices and physical therapy.

For more information contact: dojo@nolaaikido.com

Through a provocative meeting at the intersection of two forms; each steeped in present moment awareness and embodied improvisation…experience deep play through physicality, communication, and imagination.

This workshop is open to everyone, those with theater/movement/martial arts training and to those without. Contact: cassterman@hotmail.com 

Charles Colten will provide a workshop for New York City Security and Facilities personnel. Verbal and Non-verbal strategies, techniques, and approaches to de-escalation will be introduced, discussed, and practiced. For more information, contact: charles@circle123.org

This workshop is open to everyone, those with theater/movement/martial arts training and to those without.

We invite you, through a provocative meeting at the intersection of two forms; each steeped in present moment awareness and embodied improvisation…to experience deep play through physicality, communication, and imagination. Aikido study focuses on the creative potential unleashed from a connected state of mind, body, and spirit; leading to greater freedom in an ability to respond rather than react. Action Theater channels this responsive freedom into fresh vocabularies of expression in movement, vocalization and speech.  This workshop builds on our shared fascination with the micro-worlds of timing, pulse, and how the music of movement falls, arrests, and flows into expanded communication. Contact: cassterman@hotmail.com

AIKIDO; a modern Japanese martial art, developed in the 20th century by Morihei Ueshiba (O Sensei), synthesizes many other martial arts into a unified “way of harmony.” While Aikido principles and practices derive from a martial tradition, its “goal” is not the destruction of an “opponent”, but rather true unification, authentic communication, resolution of conflict, and the co-creation of a peaceful world through the development of peaceful people.

ACTION THEATER, developed by Ruth Zaporah, is a way into improvisation through an embodied doorway. It employs the awakened physical body as a vehicle to express imagination and experience with depth, precision, and delight. Action Theater cultivates a fearless, gentle relationship with the unknown through play with space, time, and feeling.

Charles Colten Sensei (5th Dan) will be one of the guest instructors at the Inaugural Isshinkai Seminar in Toronto, Canada.

Isshinkai translates as one heart; one mind. This June Naka Ima is happy to open up its doors and mat to 5 instructors from across North America in a joint, open study and deep exploration of current aikido practice.

Participating Instructors:

Greg Angus Sensei - 6th dan. Toronto CAN
Glenn Leichman - 5th dan. Seattle WA
Charles Colten - 5th dan. New York NY
Dan Dease - 4th dan. Orlando FL
Brian Levy - 4th dan New Orleans LA

As a member of the teaching faculty of the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) in New York City, Charles Colten will be presenting “Conflict Management for Administrative Law Judges” as part of a New Judges Training program.

The workshop will include theory and practice of effective conflict management. based on somatic awareness, neuro-scientific research, and the martial arts.

Charles Colten will participate in the 2nd Citywide Roundtable on Restorative Approaches in New York City.

At the first Citywide Roundtables, Colten met with colleagues who are working across all areas of the city on Restorative Justice practices. His focus is on School Initiatives for Creative Conflict Resolution.

This event is sponsored by the Restorative Justice Initiative, The Brownsville Think Tank Matters, Man Up Inc, and The Center for Creative Conflict Resolution.

For more information about this event, register here: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/CTd05APxhZ06c4mLzyYYRg

Charles Colten and CIRCLE123, in collaboration with the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) in New York City, will lead a workshop in Stress Management and Conflict Resolution for Procedural Justice Coordinators. Participants will learn and practice concrete, take-away exercises for real-world applications in professional and personal settings.

Under the auspices of the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) and the Center for Creative Conflict Resolution, Charles Colten will lead an interactive workshop as part of the New Judges Training for New York City's Administrative Law Judges. 

Charles Colten will lead an interactive workshop for the NYU School of Professional Studies on Stress Management and Conflict Resolution. For more information, contact Charles directly at: charles@circle123.org

Aikido in the Schools will give an Aikido demonstration/workshop and Q & A session at the as part of the International Day of Peace activities at the United Nations International School in New York City. Participants of all ages from Junior School through High School students and faculty members will be in attendance.

Charles Colten will give an interactive workshop presentation on Aikido as Collaborative Conflict Resolution for the students at the NYU Law School Mediation Clinic. Students examine the neuroscience, principles, and practices behind this unique approach to Alternative Dispute Resolution.