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'Kaizen'
means "constant improvement," a Japanese term usually
applied to the realms of manufacturing and technology.
Kaizen
refers to a persevering spirit dedicated to excellence
and innovation. At The Kaizen Center for Strategic
and Integrative Arts we apply the kaizen
principle to all aspects (physical, psychological,
spiritual, or emotional) of our personal development
programs.
'Dojo'
in Japanese means "the place where you practice the
'way'," that is, the 'way' to personal perfection, to
spiritual development, harmony, inner peace, and bliss.
Our motto "Where
the world is our dojo"
refers to the emphasis which we place on ensuring that
our instruction, training, and teachings are not limited
to a given location in time and space, but rather
applicable in all walks of life.
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"If learning and
training never cease, then kaizen is our guiding
principle.
If the Universe is
infinite then we are always at a Center and the
World is our Dojo.
If we can live a
single moment to its fullest then we can live a
lifetime of beauty and awe."
The Master's Log
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"Man
is born in chains, but
only
in his mind can he be free."
The Master's Log
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The goal of The Kaizen
Center for Strategic and Integrative Arts
is to provide training, services and products to
better prepare the individual to deal with the
realities of the 21st century.
The Kaizen Center for
Strategic and Integrative Arts is
born of a holistic vision of what it means to be
human. This paradigm of integration runs
contrary to the dominant Western trend of increasing
specialization and reductionism, thus opposing the
conventional ‘wisdom’ expressed by the popular
adage, “jack of all trades: master of none.”
In nature, however, the most successful species are quite
often the most adaptable and the price of
over-specialization is frequently extinction; thus
nature responds to the previous expression with its
own wisdom: “master of one makes for none.”
Nevertheless, it is my view that the tide is slowly
turning in Western civilization as a whole and we
are returning to the ideal of the “Renaissance Man”
– the master of many trades.
We need breadth but not at the expense of depth, something
we emphasize at The
Kaizen Center. The secret to
obtaining breadth and depth comes from integration
across conventionally defined fields and
disciplines, from breaking free of culturally
conditioned molds, divisions, and stereotypes, of
having the courage and the creativity to see things
as they are rather than as we want them to be.
This encompassing view is in actuality a direct
manifestation of the
MAMBA-Ryu
paradigm of Five
Spheres in which each Sphere
refers to an aspect of the human being to be
developed.
Thus, in simple terms the human being is seen as
having a physical body to develop, a conscious mind
to discipline, a non-conscious mind to explore and
cultivate, an environment to which to adapt, to
overcome and perhaps at times to exploit, and a
philosophical/spiritual facet with which to
harmonize all of the above. Each of these Spheres
is contained in the rest, none being completely
independent of the rest.
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OUR
PROGRAMS CAN BE DIVIDED INTO:
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PHYSICAL PROGRAMS:
BLACK MAMBATM Personal Protection
(including BLACK MAMBA SITUATIONAL
COMBATTM and URBAN SURVIVAL), KAI-JUTSUTM. |
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MENTAL
PROGRAMS:
Including
individual or group sessions in: MAMBA
MindfulnessTM (Basic, Dynamic and
Strategic Mindfulness Training), Imaginoceptive
Meta-ProgrammingTM (Hypno-ShamanismTM),
Hypnotherapy, Self-Hypnosis, and Existential
StrategyTM. |
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INTEGRATIVE
PROGRAMS:
Based on the
integrative MAMBA-RyuTM paradigm and
including the Distance Training and the
Instructor Development Programs. |
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The
essential questions in life are six:
Who am I?
Who do I want to be?
How do I become that?
Where am I?
Where do I want to be?
How do I get there?
The Master's Log
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I hope you join us and I look forward
to meeting you inside!
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The
Master/Founder of
THE KAIZEN
CENTER
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Oath of the MAMBA Master
“I stand before you
So that you may learn to
stand
For that which must stand
When you in turn
Can stand no more.
I come to exalt
So that you may learn to
exalt
That which must be exalted
When you in turn
Can exalt no more.
I come to persist
So that you may learn to
persist
For that which must persist
When you in turn
Can persist no more.
I come to remain
So that you may learn to
remain
For that which must remain
When you in turn
Can remain no more
I come to be
So that you may learn to be
For that which must be
When you in turn
Can be no more.”
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MASTER-FOUNDER
OVERTON
was born in San
Francisco, California; he completed his
primary education in the US, Spain and
England, and his secondary education in
Spain. At 18 years of age he moved to
Canada where he studied at the
universities of Ottawa, Queen’s, and
Waterloo. In 1995 he moved to San Diego,
CA in order to complete post-graduate
studies at UCSD and Alliant
International University; he is
currently completing a Ph.D. in Clinical
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DOCTORAL CANDIDATE
in Clinical and Health
Psychology (Alliant
International University). |
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MASTER'S DEGREES
in Cognitive Sciences (UCSD) and Spanish and
Latin American Literature (Queen’s University).
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BACHELOR'S
DEGREES
in Spanish and Latin American Studies (Queen’s
University) and General Science (University of
Waterloo. |
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MASTER
HYPNOTHERAPIST
and
CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST
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HONORARY
MEMBER OF THE HYPNOSIS RESEARCH SOCIETY, UK.
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PROFESSOR
of Psychology of Religion and World Religions. |
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AUTHOR
of numerous articles and encyclopedia entries on
Shamanism, Hypnosis, Cognitive Neuroscience, and
Psychology of Imagination. |
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FOUNDER
of Black Mamba, Mamba-Ryu, Kai-Jutsu,
MAMBA Mindfulness,
Imaginoceptive Meta-Programming
(Shamanic Hypnosis), and
Existential Strategy.
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INDUCTED
UNITED STATES MARTIAL ARTS HALL OF FAME
July
2006.
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INSTRUCTOR
of over a dozen martial arts and combat systems,
with over 30 years of experience in oriental
self-realization methodologies. |
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THREE-TIME WINNER
of BEST COACH AWARD in Canadian Judo(1999, 2000,
2001).
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