Bully Defense Expert Offers Free Bully and Self Defense Workshop At The Dojo of Karate

On Friday, September 23rd The Dojo of Karate will be hosting a FREE Bully & Self Defense Workshop at either 5:00 PM or 6:00 PM.

This is a FREE community event that is open to residents who live / work in Westminster, Broomfield, Thornton and other surrounding towns in the north metro area.

The goal during this Bully Defense Workshop is to help educate families to understand what bullying looks like today, how it can affect their children and our youth around us, and the best and most effective strategies needed to defeat bullying — using a nonviolent approach.

“I’ve been in the martial arts for over 25 years, working with kids and youths in my community, and bullying isn’t what it use to be when we were kids”, says Javier Lozano — owner of The Dojo of Karate.  “Bullying is different because the landscape has changed.  With social media and digital media, bullying can continue to follow your child, even beyound the playground.”

The Dojo of Karate joined forces with the #1 leading bullying program in the country called Hyper Bully Defense.  By joining arms with Hyper Bully Defense, this allows The Dojo of Karate to really approaching bullying in the Westminster community, in a grassroots style, so that kids and families begin to gain confidence, understand how to out smart a bully, and how devasting bullying can really be.

Hyper Bully Defense has a mission of empowering over 1 million people worldwide to end bullying and has pushed to slogan “Live Your Life” — which is what every child should have the opportunity to do.

Statiscally speaking, bullying affects more families than one really realizes

• Every 7 minutes a child is bullied
• 85% of the time there is no intervention
• Each day over 160,000 kids miss school due to bullying
• Bullying is the leading factor of suicide for kids between 11 and 16 years old
• By age 24, 60% of bully’s have been charged with a crime
• 34% of kids report being bullied regularly several times per year

These statistics are scary!

By educating the community, The Dojo of Karate want to give residents the opportunity to learn some of the best ways to handle bullying in a variety of formats.

“During our Bully Defense Workshops, we teach kids the 3 best ways to beat bullying, the different types of bullying, our 6 Power Phrases to END bullying, and a variety of self defense moves incase it gets physical” says Lozano.  “Ultimately we are teaching kids to respect themselves and others and not to abuse their knowledge and gift.”

These tools can easily be translated over into everyday life, bullying confrontations, or even school.

Space is limited to only 50 kids per time slot, which are available at either 5:00 PM or 6:00 PM on Friday, September 23rd.

If there needs to be an additional time slot, due to high demand, The Dojo of Karate will happily add more times as needed.

“I encourage families to invite their neighbors, friends, and family — as this will benefit our entire community to this Bully & Self Defense Workshop.  It will create so much value to families, that they’ll need to share with others”, says Lozano.

About The Dojo of Karate

The Dojo of Karate is the leading martial arts and fitness school, dedicated to helping kids, teens, and adults achieve focus, self-confidence, respect, and self-defense skills, through their amazing Karate program to residents residing in Westminster, Broomfield, Thornton and other surrounding areas in Colorado.