Hey everyone, I’m working on creating a therapy group with a martial arts component to draw in young offenders and high-needs teenage males. I currently counsel teens and young males who are incarcerated, have just gotten out of the hall and are on probation, and am working to keep them from getting locked up again. A lot of these kids have negative/hyper masculine traits traits like, lacking empathy (stealing, committing crimes without remorse etc), being prone to violence, never backing down, manipulating others emotionally/physically, etc, can benefit from a program that addresses these harmful male archetypes and replaces with a positive, “peaceful warrior” type of male identity. I was wondering if anyone out there knows of a martial arts group that has a mental health focus, like healing depression, anxiety, substance abuse, trauma, toxic masculinity (suppressing of emotions and extreme self-reliance to the point where it harms yourself , degradation of women, prone to violence etc). I’ve been connected to one other person who has a boxing group for survivors of human trafficking and another boxer/therapist who created a boxing group with a Domestic Violence component. Breathing/self-regulation, mindfulness, evasion/avoidance over confrontation (not getting into fights because someone called you out), were some of the things he shared. I was wondering if anyone out there has ideas or can connect me to someone who has been doing this kind of work. Thanks in advance.