Curriculum

Unity Day Youth and Family Zone’s mission is to develop healthy motivated students and productive citizens. Our specialty holistic consultation services include Asian Fitness Systems; Stress Management; Meditation; Well Managed Classrooms; Youth Workforce Development; Self-Defense Seminars; Change Management; Communication Strategy; Community Capacity Building; Leadership and Management Training; Performance Management; Keynote and Inspirational Speaking; Meeting Facilitation; Executive and Group Coaching; free yearly participation in the Louisiana Governor’s Games; and Unity Day Youth and Family Zone Karate Seminar and Wellness Training Tours throughout the Gulf Coast and United States. Here’s a brief description of some of our holistic: mind, body and spirit services:

· DK Group Asian Fitness Systems

1. Show how well the wonderful human body functions when you understand its machinery---- the hammer, lever, wedge, wheel, fixed axle and pulley.

2. Explain how to use the human body to generate Herculean force and power by vibrating and rotating your body core/hips and using your legs as explosive springs.

3. Share how to become proficient in karate weapons such as kicks; punches; blocks; strikes; trapping & grappling.

4. Coach you to aerobic and anaerobic martial arts fitness utilizing modern and ancient training technologies.

5. Teach meditation and stress management technologies that offer a mental balance as your body grows more powerful and fit.

· Stress Management for Parents, Children, Teachers, Students, and Administrators

1. Increase your ability think more clearly and make smarter decisions, especially under pressure.

2. Increase vitality and wellbeing.

3. Transform the physiological response to stress.

4. Improve communication with staff, students, and parents.

5. Improve your ability to build collaborative relationships

6. Create a stronger school culture, esprit de corps and enhance your community effectiveness.

7. Use and apply a set of research-based techniques to create a personal internal locus of control and achieve personal goals

8. Stress management biofeedback technology reinforces all of the above, and helps build an internal locus of control of emotions, and feelings. Indeed, in 2010 our program is dedicated to teaching youth test taking strategies that build confidence and reduce anxiety around standardized testing, e.g.--LEAP and GEE.

· DK Group Meditation to Relieve Stress and Enhance Your Life

Participants will learn the Essential Principles of Meditation and find answer thw following questions

1. What is meditation and how does it work?

2. What does it do for the mind, the body, and the spirit?

3. What are its benefits—spiritually, mentally, physically, in relationships, and for the environment?

4. How can we integrate meditative practice into everyday life?

· Well Managed Classrooms

The Unity Day Youth and Family Zone Well Managed Classroom Model can help Administrative and teaching staff:

1. Identify student life skill deficits

2. Teach students replacement skills to increase social and academic success

3. Develop clear, building-wide expectations for student behavior

4. Promote the creation of a positive learning environment by providing staff with effective strategies for encouraging pro-social and correcting disruptive and antisocial student behavior

5. Increase student time-on-task and improve opportunities for academic achievement among disadvantaged students

6. Decrease the frequency and severity of student behavior problems that result in office referrals

· Youth Empowerment Forums that promote human capital/workforce development.

· Louisiana Governor’s Games: Unity Day Youth and Family Zone Karate Seminar and Wellness Training offers youth and families statewide a yearly opportunity to participate.

· Self Defense Course: “Giving You the Ability to Think Back”. This course is designed to raise self defense consciousness. It includes four components: Awareness; Assessment; Course of Action; Self Defense Physical Tactics.

1. Awareness:

– Increase your awareness of the nature, and prevalence of violent crime, and measure your “victim potential” using the DK GROUP questionnaire.

2. Assessment:

– Develop assessment skills for risky situations that involve: strangers; family; friends; bullies; employees; your clients/customers; the work environment and yourself.

3. Courses of Action:

– Learn a three step strategy to dealing with conflict prior to the need for physical tactics. The three steps include: immediate retreat, de-escalation and assertive behavior.

4. Self Defense Physical Tactics

– Learn how fundamental physical response tactics can be used after you have exhausted all preventative and avoidance behaviors described above.

· Communication Strategy

· Community Capacity Building

· Leadership and Management Training

· Performance Management

· Keynote and Inspirational Speaking

· Meeting Facilitation

· Executive and Group Coaching