Workshops: Beyond the Trust Fall

SeTs Ryu Launches New Workshops to Forge Resilience, Focus, and Real-World Capability

Date: October 2025 (Based on source dates) Author: Chris Spencer @SeTs Ry

Are you tired of corporate team-building that feels more like a temporary escape from burnout than a genuine solution? In today’s complex and unpredictable professional environment, organizations need a workforce that is not just physically fit but, mentally agile and resilient.

We are thrilled to announce the introduction of a comprehensive suite of experiential workshops designed to equip individuals and teams with practical, transferable skills for the challenges of work and life. Rooted in our philosophy of "Sound in Body, Sound in Mind," these hands-on, cross-functional training programmes are now available for booking on the SeTs Ryu website.

Discover the full catalogue and book your next team experience today at: [https://www.mindsets.eu/courses]

'Breaking Silos, Bridging Gaps' between knowledge systems, industries, people & cultures

The SeTs Ryu Difference: Functional Education for Real Life

SeTs Ryu is dedicated to delivering Functional Education, an approach that focuses on training capabilities that are directly applicable to real-life situations, moving beyond abstract theories or isolated exercises and context silos. This commitment ensures that strengthening the body simultaneously forges mental resilience, discipline, and confidence.

Our methodology embraces Experiential & Borderless Learning, facilitating hands-on, blended experiences that can be adapted to almost any venue—from a corporate gym or sports hall to an outdoor park.

The new workshop offerings are structured across our three interconnected pillars of service:

1. SAFE: Forging Resilience Through Action

The SAFE (Sports and Street Art Activities) pillar replaces awkward icebreakers with collaborative movement designed to build authentic team trust and adaptive problem-solving. For example:

• "Break Free, Break Out!": Forget conventional retreats. This half-day or full-day team revitalization experience is far more strategic, focusing on resilience training disguised as fun, progressive challenges. Activities involve obstacle courses, preparatory self-defence training, and scenario-based games using padded swords and Nerf-style blasters to simulate strategic battles. This dynamic format creates a "level playing field where job titles don't determine success," fostering authentic cross-hierarchical bonding.

• "Flow State!" / "Leap of Faith!": These Parkour-based workshops introduce the art of intelligent, efficient movement in a safe, controlled indoor environment. They are powerful models for strategic thinking, training rapid environmental assessment and building comfort with calculated risk-taking. The intense focus required can induce a meditative state that provides a complete mental reset from screen time and stress. The "Leap of Faith!" is ideal as a high-energy 20-minute break, perfect for jump-starting meetings and boosting confidence through small wins.

• "Grounded & Centered": This active meditation workshop draws from traditional Chi Kung methodology, using standing postures and gentle movements. It provides highly practical "Coffee Break" techniques—simple, 5-10 minute standing practices that can be used anywhere to counter long hours of desk concentration, offering a sustainable alternative to stimulants like coffee. This is invaluable for developing enhanced mental focus and desk-side stress management.

2. FAST: Building Power and Trust with Purpose

The FAST (Fitness and Strength Exercise) pillar moves beyond isolated gym exercises to build functional, whole-body strength and metabolic conditioning. For example:

• "Human Multigym": This unique 60-minute session demands genuine interdependence. Participants become each other's training equipment, using bodyweight and collaborative resistance to build functional strength and coordination. This process meticulously forges deep physical trust and clear communication, revealing authentic team dynamics under pressure more effectively than theoretical exercises.

• "Kuntao: Fighting Fit": This dual-mode workout uses martial movement principles to deliver a complete conditioning session, alternating between strength-building and high-intensity aerobic intervals. Its primary benefit is teaching "Mental Focus Under Physical Load and Pressure," a crucial skill for maintaining high performance during stressful projects and tight deadlines.

• "Lean Machine": Our most physically demanding workshop, this "Smelt and Forge" approach utilizes high-intensity circuits of heavy compound movements to maximize metabolic conditioning and build profound mental toughness. Sustaining effort through these circuits directly cultivates the resilience and grit applicable to persevering through difficult work setbacks.

3. HELP: Mastering Focus and Managing Risk

The HELP (Education and Development Services) pillar includes critical professional and personal development focusing on mind skills, tools, mental agility, and safety. For example:

• "Aware and Assured" (AARM Fundamentals): This 90-minute introductory module provides essential, immediately applicable skills in situational awareness and conflict prevention, covering core concepts from the comprehensive Assault Awareness & Risk Management (AARM) training program. It empowers frontline staff with skills like recognizing behavioural warning signs, verbal de-escalation techniques, and safe response protocols.

Start Your Adventure of Discovery Workshops Today

SeTs Ryu's mission is to break down the barriers between physical training and mental acuity, helping you unlock your team's full potential.

We invite you to stop settling for uninspired wellness initiatives. Embrace an approach built on experiential learning, challenge, and genuine collaboration.

Explore the full catalogue of our customizable onsite workshops and book a consultation to create a tailored programme for your team now: [https://www.mindsets.eu/courses]

ABOUT SETS RYU

SeTs Ryu creates & teaches innovative and functional education and training programmes, both online and onsite for vocational subjects, sports and fitness. Vocational subjects include business, security and risk management, such as the Assault Awareness & Risk Management (AARM) courses, Mind Skills & Tools. Physical education includes Personal Trainer services for fitness and coaching for Parkour, self-defence and other sports. We use all this experience to help businesses and educational institutions unlock the full potential of co-creation (content creation) and, in facilitating workshops to help clients succeed in collaborative development projects.

Our experienced educators can collaborate with you to:

• Plan and develop engaging and effective online and offline courses.

• Create course content, including videos, blog articles, podcasts, interactive exercises and assessments.

• Facilitate collaborative learning experiences that foster innovation and creativity.

• Tutor students on courses & training programmes we have created for our own needs.

• Plan and organise workshops, seminars and festivals and other events

If you need more of a Co-Pilot than a Co-Creator, you can further empower your team with SeTs Ryu's workshop facilitation services and achieve further productivity in your projects through improved collaboration processes.

Either way, by partnering with SeTs Ryu, you can elevate your educational offerings and enhance learner engagement to help achieve your goals.

SeTs Ryu: Your Partner in Collaborative Facilitation & Co-Creation