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Learning How to Take Responsibility Through the Help of Karate
Responsibility can be shown and enacted in many forms. However, in a very general sense, it refers to the act of being accountable, learning from your actions, and having the ability for others to be able to rely on you.
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Summer Camps 2025 Calendar
Join us this summer for karate summer camp! Learn new skills, meet new friends! Check out our calendar for dates and info.
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Word of the Month: Responsibility
One of the important aspects of our character development program at Douvris Martial Arts is that it not only teaches students how to become responsible…
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sMILES for Amanda
A KKC Heroes Circle volunteer, Sensei Alexander and the Ottawa faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa are organizing a 5 km Fundraiser run this year for the sMiles for Amanda.
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Become A Martial Arts Therapist
Kids Kicking Cancer are looking for new Senseis to join them and teach the kids in the Heroes Circle program to breathe in the light and breathe out the darkness.
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Private Training with Patrick Gourde!!
Take your martial arts training to the next level with private Lessons from Patrick Gourde!
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Teaching Humility Through Karate: The Importance and Benefits
Having a sense of humbleness often too comes with a sense of self-awareness of one’s capabilities. What is meant by that, is an understanding and acceptance of our strengths and limitations.
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Word of the Month: Humility
Some concepts are easy to explain with words. Humility isn’t really one of them. We can talk about it – and we do, as part of our character development program – but in order to help people understand humility, we have to make sure they can experience it.
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Exploring Respect & its Connection to Mindfulness
Discover the link between karate and mindfulness, and why incorporating mindfulness and respect is a fundamental part of our karate programs.
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Word of the Month: Respect
Respect is one of the words most often associated with karate, and for a good reason. We care about it a great deal.
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Word of the Month: Service
As Sensei Cody Diesbourg explains, if it weren’t for service and people paying it forward, we wouldn’t have martial arts today.
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Instructor Appreciation Month
Sensei Sophia presented this, so we are collecting cards at the front desk with letters from our students, parents, and caregivers for our instructors.
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