Conflict
Our life may be a success story or or endless succession of difficult experiences, we can't avoid conflict and all these events or persons empeaching us to satisfy all our desires. For some people life is combat and for others it is useless to struggle against fatality. These two opposite visions have one thing in common: conflict.
Le conflit est unavoidable as two wills meet: your will and someone else's will. The other it's you, it's him but it is also my company, the society, my family, etc. But the alien is also in me ! I hear him each time I hear this little voice judging me or criticizing my actions.
So as conflict is inevitable why not learning to manage it as good as possible. Aikido is a wonderful metaphor of life. It's offering us a way to manage conflict in a positive and constructive way
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Rather than viewing the other as an opponent, aikido sees him as a partner. He the one who offers me an opportunity to learn and grow.
Based on the bodily experience, through the practice of movements extracted from Aikido techniques, we can overcome the intellectual learnings that have so little impact for a lasting change on a daily basis. The concepts of balance, Grounding and verticality are preludes to the meeting of each other without fearing to get unbalanced. We can then explore how to transform the inevitably conflicting energies into synergy in full respect of self and other.
The AïkiCom’ approach
AikiCom is an approach that aims to educate and integrate the principles of body communication with oneself and with others. The obvious advantages of aikido in the domain of emotional intelligence are transmitted through body practice linking it with the principles of aikido, but also with other approaches such as NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) or NVC (nonviolent communication).
The concept
By the practice of exercises inspired by aikido movements, participants are guided by the trainer, thare invited to experiment some corrections or variations to generate a powerful body experience that connects the concepts of emotional intelligence to the movement.
AïkiCom’ and emotional intelligence
L’Aïkido
Aikido has become in a few decades a reference for its qualities combining martial practice and non-violent philosophy encouraging cooperation rather than victory by the defeat of the attacker.
The practice of Aikido let us discover a real art of living, a way of being and interact in harmony. This practice is challenging because it requires good fitness and perseverance.
So how could it be possible to pass on the wisdom of this unique martial art in a few hours of seminar practice?
The two most frequent responses are the metaphor and the energetic approach.
In the first case, Aikido is reduced to a mere metaphor of communication putting aside all the body experience aspects. In the second one, the emphasis is put on the discovery of Ki, the vital energy which, according to Eastern philosophy, is in all of us and connects us to the universe. The study of Ki, also turn to somewhat esoteric, and rarely escapes the trap of self-delusion when it makes us imagine that we master our vital energy in a few exercices without the practice of the Aikido movements.
We propose an alternative to these two visions that split the Aikido specificity in parts. Our approach is the result of more than 35 years of practice. It's starts from movement and is completed by the philosophical dimension. So we can explore in our body sensations that evoke the concepts of Ki energy that we can feel after years of pure aikido practice.
By experimenting the mechanics of specific p; arts of the aikido movements it is possible to live what body balance, vertical axis, stability, correct muscular tonus. We can also experience in our body what is a balanced relationship with the partner.
Through practice the participants discover concepts of systemics that may opens up the doors of Eastern spirituality principles such as the fact of being one with the Universe.
Besides this it is also possible to live physically powerful reframings. Some exercises allow us to be stampeded into our certainties and thus to open ourselves to change and flexibility.