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Conscious Combat Club

Conscious Combat Club

Hosted by: Georgia

Trauma informed martial arts by women, for women. We're curious about why so many people say "martial arts saved them". What is the link between martial arts and mental health? And how can we create safer, trauma...

Episodes

Fight Science #5: Dr Wolf Mehling: A 12-week integrative exercise program improves self-reported mindfulness and interoceptive awareness in war veterans with posttraumatic stress symptoms.

Season #2

Fight Science is a special segment of the Conscious Combat Club podcast where we invite researchers to take a deep dive into a paper they’ve written and explain it to us as though we’re 14 years old. In this episode I...
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#12: Emily Dobrich: Embodied learning and self-determination for women in muay thai

Season #2

Emily Dobrich (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Adult Education and Community Development program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Her research interests...
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#11: Richie Hardcore: How to speak to boys and men about gender-based violence

Season #2

Richie Hardcore (he/him) is an educator, speaker, and activist, working in family and sexual violence prevention, masculinities, mental health, and fitness. Richie is a retired multiple New Zealand Muay Thai champion...
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Fight Science #4: Reinventing martial arts in the 21st century

Season #2

Dr. George Jennings (he/him) is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Sociology at Cardiff Metropolitan University in the UK. George’s research explores martial arts and combat sports, health and society. To contact...
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#10: Donna Abela: A forgotten piece of historical slut-shaming

Season #2

Donna (she/her) has written award-winning stage and radio plays for audiences of all ages, and has extensive experience in script development, story development, and mentoring and teaching emerging writers from...
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#9: Georgina Capone: Trauma informed boxing in the UK

Season #2

Georgina (George) Capone (she/her) is the founder of the Warrior Women Project, a trauma informed boxing program for women to embrace and unleash their anger, feel empowered and strong. George lives in sunny North...
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#8:Jess Gordon: Experiential social-emotional learning through self defense in schools

Season #2

Jess Gordon (she/her) is a school teacher, educational researcher, and BJJ practitioner based in Vancouver, Canada. Combining these areas of interest, she is developing a new, experiential, and transformative approach...
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#7:Georgia Verry: Can you help us help women?

Season #2

Can you help us open a dedicated trauma informed martial arts gym? Please watch Georgia present our pitch deck and comment, email us or use the contact form on our site to share your feedback. We seriously appreciate...
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#6: Deb and Nicole: Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Season #2

Content warning: Dieting, eating disorders, poor body image   This week (September 4th – 10th, 2023) is Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week (BIEDAW). The theme this year is The Time is Now to Act on Eating...
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#5: Georgia Verry: My lived experience with an eating disorder

Season #2

Content warning: Eating disorders and body image    Leading up to Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week (BIEDAW), Georgia shares her personal experience with disordered eating. Georgia discusses how her...
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Fight Science #3: Promoting Executive Functioning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Through Mixed Martial Arts Training.

Season #1

Fight Science is a new episode format in which you'll get to hear the authors of peer reviewed papers related to martial arts and combat sports explain their papers in a way that you will be able to understand. Each...
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#4: Kenisha Coy: Breaking boards and binaries

Season #2

Kenisha Coy (she/her) is a creative encourager who believes in the value of second chances. She is a taekwondo practitioner and researcher at Lesley University curious about the interplay between art, board breaking,...
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