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“To help individuals live lives free from the effects of violence and trauma—healing and empowering through Enhanced Resilience Training”.
2022
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ERT™ strives to maximize the impact that one healthy individual has on the larger community.
No initiatives or social evolutions will be effective for mankind until we address and heal the global impact of trauma. Once healed, an individual’s natural state of life force returns, which has a profound ripple effect on local, regional and global communities.
Master Dean Siminoff is a 6th Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo and Chief Master Instructor. He has been teaching and operating his own schools (KMA) for 20 years gaining a unique understanding of the mind and body working with all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. He is the founder & president of Martial Arts for Justice, a registered Canadian Charity.
MASTER DEAN SIMINOFF
ERT™ is informed by Polyvagal Theory, and directly endorsed by its founder Dr. Stephen Porges. More importantly, the ERT program translates Polyvagal Theory into an actionable, and approachable, healing modality.
His commitment to helping those facing injustice and gender-based violence, has led to the creation of Enhanced Resilience TrainingTM
How Enhanced Resilience Training Began
2015
Dean travelled to Africa and felt the severe effects of trauma and injustice first hand—particularly in the form of gender violence against women and children in Rwanda and Uganda.
2017
This profound experience led to creation of Enhanced Resilience Training which he began to gradually introduced to impacted communities in smaller pilot projects
2018
This led to Dean founding www.martialartsforjustice.org as a non profit corp and this because certified charity.
MAJs initial purpose was to fund raise to support its mission and promote justice work, initially starting with it’s premier campaign Breaking Boards Breaking Chains (BBBC)
2019 – NOW
After MAJ was established Dean continued to travel to Africa specifically Rwanda and Uganda – in meeting the people and learning more about their challenges and cultures and seeing that GBV (gender based violence) was epidemic and combined with trauma ptsd debilitating resulting in making it almost impossible for poverty and lack of education to be overcome.
2015
Dean travelled to Africa and felt the severe effects of trauma and injustice first hand—particularly in the form of gender violence against women and children in Rwanda and Uganda.
2017
This profound experience led to creation of Enhanced Resilience Training which he began to gradually introduced to impacted communities in smaller pilot projects
2018
This led to Dean founding www.martialartsforjustice.org as a non profit corp and this because certified charity.
MAJs initial purpose was to fund raise to support its mission and promote justice work, initially starting with it’s premier campaign Breaking Boards Breaking Chains (BBBC)
2019 – NOW
After MAJ was established Dean continued to travel to Africa specifically Rwanda and Uganda – in meeting the people and learning more about their challenges and cultures and seeing that GBV (gender based violence) was epidemic and combined with trauma ptsd debilitating resulting in making it almost impossible for poverty and lack of education to be overcome.