Southern Cross Martial Arts is more a martial arts school and can offer a variety of other services to our community. Our Chief Instructor has extensive experience in delivering training in a variety of contexts including schools, the commercial sector and government.
Our training offerings are evidence based and customised and contextualised to the client as much as possible – in the past we have developed courses ranging from a few hours to a year in duration.
Schools
We can provide both one off and ongoing incursions for students and can deliver age-appropriate content. Southern Cross Martial Arts can provide everything from the “Yes I can” talk to self-protection workshops and specific martial arts programs (i.e. a term of karate/kickboxing/muay Thai sessions for a PE class.
Our school-based incursions are active, inclusive, and designed to build confidence, self-regulation, and respectful peer relationships. These sessions can be tailored to different age groups and include:
- Martial arts for focus, confidence, and resilience
- Bullying and violence prevention through role play and movement-based learning
- Introduction to self-protection strategies (age-appropriate and non-combative)
- Positive identity and emotional regulation for neurodivergent students
We can also provide professional development workshops for teaching staff and wellbeing teams on topics such as:
- Understanding and supporting neurodivergent students in the classroom
- Creating psychologically safe learning environments
- Managing challenging behaviour through trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming approaches
- Preventing occupational violence in school settings
Conflict Management
Backed by decades of expertise in occupational violence prevention, the conflict management training offered by Southern Cross Martial Arts delivers practical, next-level strategies to help individuals navigate and resolve workplace conflict. Our programs foster a shared understanding and provide a clear framework for addressing challenging situations collaboratively and effectively.
The primary focus is on prevention and programs can be customised to the policies and procedures of the host organisation. The skills covered include recognising the causes of conflict and developing conflict resolution strategies for quickly and effectively recognising, resolving and preventing conflicts with others. Participants will learn key skills like how to compromise and negotiate, finding the root cause of the issue, the importance of forgiveness, anger management strategies and de-escalating challenging situations. For more details on these services go to www.occupationalviolenceprevention.com.au
Personal Safety
Personal safety training focusses on providing participants with common sense approaches, advice and techniques for avoiding or managing incidents in any environment. These programs can be customised in duration and content and can include proven physical skills (not martial arts), as well as working on situational awareness, conflict avoidance, threat recognition cues, emotional and psychological safety, and the legal framework surrounding the use of physical skills for self-protection.
Neurodiversity
Our coaches have significant experience in working with neurodivergent people, are neurodivergent themselves and have extensive post-graduate qualifications in neurodivergence, especially focussed on autism. Training can be developed and delivered to individuals and organisations focussing on neurodiversity including:
- What is neurodiversity
- Coaching neurodivergent participants
- Employing neurodivergent employees
- Accommodations and adjustments for participants and employees
- Strategies for becoming neuro affirming
