Hi,

Who am I, in 3 short dot points?

I'm actively in the space of education, youth and martial arts and I for sure, don't know all the answers. I'm not a qualified counsellor nor psychologist.
According to the MBTI test, I'm an ENFJ-A. According to the OCEAN test, I'm high in extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness but moderately low in openness and neuroticism.
I believe that the raw essence of everyone's goals is rooted in love and peace. (My favourite quote is "love builds a bridge so the truth can pass (Dan Burke)." The values I advocate for everyone to achieve this are strength, intelligence and kindness.

Why do I continue to do what I do?

My sentiments echo in, "Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see (Neil Postman)." Amidst the darkness in the modern world's unprecedented disconnections, children are beacons of light to enact change. I simply wish to make the best use of my 'free will' to gradually be the change I wish to see in the world.

Why did I start?

I'm a big believer that everything happens for a reason, like the butterfly effect. My whole life has always been spiritually involved with Japanese culture, martial arts and education. I grew up with 3 sets of Japanese divorced parents, giving me a deep and wide exposure to Japanese culture and largely exacerbated the foundations of my disorganised attachment style. My father (54 years my senior), a life long martial artist and Buddhist monk, focused my life around education and martial arts from the age of 6.

There were and are inevitably, a whole heap of trauma from my life (anyone's life). For a long time, education, martial arts and the paradigms in my interpretations of my childhood upbringing, shaped me to be a sharp thinker but very detached from my emotions. It wasn't until I began therapy (IFS), that I recognised the missing key all along... Self love. Today, I wish to simply share some of my experiences as I learnt to facilitate change 'inside out'. In my capacity as an educator, youth development and martial arts coach, I feel and enact my civic duty.

In the spirit of 'the butterfly effect', I believe being on the cusp of 'Gen-Z' helps me be the 'bridge' between intergenerational divide. My father, who was born and raised in post-WW2 Japan, played the most significant role in my life and thus, I see a bit of myself in everyone and everything regardless of commonly perceived constraints of relative time and space. It's for these moments of fleeting indescribable connections, I do what I do. For my own healing and growth, and in turn, others.