Cognitive Emotive Bio-Reactive Education™ is a proactive, preventative approach of educating people about the basic factors that create conflict before it becomes a serious problem. From the individual to the group, bullying on the playground to bullying on the battlefield, conflict begins with unquestioned conditioned thinking. It is those initial thoughts that set off a chain reaction instantly triggering fearful emotions and the biological fight-or-flight system. This produces a powerful psychosomatic reaction of conflict inwardly in the brain and outwardly in relationship with others. When people are conscious of this process they can begin to become aware of the structure and nature of human conflict at the primary prevention level. It is at this fundamental level that one can prevent conflict from happening by being cognizant of its underlying structure as it occurs. Once aware, one can develop naturally as an authentic, uncorrupted human free of the conditioning that creates the unnecessary conflict we experience in relationship.

C.E.B.E.™ – Cognitive Emotive Bio-Reactive Education is an innovative approach to understanding the basic structure and nature of conflict. It is a pre-therapeutic, proactive, preventative educational approach as compared to the popular counseling method C.B.T. (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) that is a reactive, remedial therapeutic approach. CE.B.E.™ helps educate young people to creatively cope with conflict before it becomes a physical confrontation

It is based on understanding the primary factors (conditioning) that create conflict in human relationship and on understanding the secondary and tertiary factors have come about and applying these insights to the primary level in an attempt to help young people to understand and avoid conflict. It therefore helps young people develop clear and strong guidelines of behavior through this unique, comprehensive approach to Conflict Education and Character Development training.

The format for this education is the combination of martial arts mental and physical skills. The physical self-defense skills give the young person the confidence not to react unnecessarily in a freeze, fight or flight manner to a potential threat.

The mental martial arts self-defense skills then give the young person the ability to avoid or resolve a potential conflict through preventing it from happening in the first place. The two set of “self-defense” skills work together as one integrated whole approach to helping young people cope with conflict.