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Five Rings Training Founder

Founder Kirsty Henderson built Five Rings Training to create a space for advanced training, thinking, and development, to write programmes which would help build people into their full capability.

She simultaneously Founded the organisation's UK specialist security company Personal Safety London, and established Five Rings Training Fight Association which governs elite performance fight, defence and security training at international locations.

Over the last 15 years Five Rings Training has become a multi award-winning training provider to the top organisations in the world. Today it continues to grow and expand its pioneering training and research in educational and Learning & Development curriculums.

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Background

Whilst working as an Architect in London Kirsty Henderson trained dedicatedly in martial arts, fought for the British Squad, became the 1st woman in Britain to attain the grueling Shidokan (Japanese bare knuckle MMA) Black Belt and travelled to Japan where she undertook 2 of her Black Belts and fought 14 of the masters to become ranked top female Shidokan fighter in the world.

On returning to the UK, she became coach to the British Men's Team training them to successful World Championship win & in her professional life was offered Directorship of one of Europe's leading architecture and construction firms and Directorship of two of London's principle architectural practices.

Having been highly involved in construction in the UK & Europe, building hospitals, cultural and educational buildings, Kirsty lectured on Architecture in London and Japan and became involved in curriculum development. In her private studies she undertook extensive training in energetics, psychology, physics, philosophy, theology, nutrition, Chinese medicine and advanced defence training leading her to gain instructorships and teaching qualifications across the fields of Personal Safety, Personal Security & Self Defence, Wellbeing, Mind Body Training, Athlete Training, Competitive Coaching and Energetics. Kirsty has a number of Black Belts, is a Krav Maga Instructor (Israeli Military Defence), a Specialist Defence Instructor, a KEWAP (Knife and Edged Weapons) Instructor, a Weapons Disarment specialist, is SIA (Security Industry Authority) Licensed, is a competitive GB Squad Coach, a Chief Martial Arts Instructor, a Senior UKMAA Instructor, a Certified Yoga Teacher, a fully insured and practicing Life Coach, QI Gong Teacher and Wellness Consultant, a Fellow of The Association For Coaching, holds a degree in Reiki, is founder of Five Rings Training and founder of Corporate Defence & Security company Personal Safety London and is a TED Speaker.

Established in 2009, today Five Rings Training works globally teaching comprehensive programmes and intensive training in vital life skills, resilience, wellbeing and Human Development Training.

As well as leading both Five Rings Training and Personal Safety London Kirsty has continued to train and expand her own knowledge, advancing through further black belts, cross training in a number of sports including training under British Gymnastics, delving more deeply into her own theological studies and developing her teaching work to build new curriculums.

Both organisations continue to expand with exceptional workforces of top international talent selected for their academic, mental and physical capabilities and trained rigorously in-house in alignment with the organisation's ethos of continual advancement.

Qualifications

Founder Kirsty Henderson applies her comprehensive subjects into one unifying and structured philosophy for life to equip individuals with comprehensive capabilities for living.

Her qualifications are:

Architect (fully qualified) BArch Hons MAC, DiplA Dist, RIBA III

Bachelor of Architecture Degree with Honours

Professional Diploma of Architecture with Distinction RIBA III

Fellow of The Association For Coaching

Fully insured Life Coach (Fellow of The Association For Coaching)

Executive Coach (FAC)

Yoga Teacher (CYT REPS3)

Fully insured Wellness Consultant

Energetics, Fully insured Qi Gong, Kiko (Japanese energetics) Teacher,

Qualified Reiki practitioner

Award-winning Competitive MMA Coach (World Champion, British Champion and English Champion wins)

6th Dan, 2nd Dan, 1st Dan and Honorary Black Belts

GB Squad Coach (World Champion wins)

Top World Ranked Fighter, Japan (in bare-knuckle knockdown MMA)

Krav Maga Instructor

Specialist Defence Instructor

KEWAP Instructor

Senior UKMAA Instructor

Weapons Disarment Instructor

SIA

Head of Personal Safety London (15 years of leading security operations)

TED Speaker

As well as running both organisations (Five Rings Training and Personal Safety London), Kirsty provides front-line coaching in risk prevention, health and human advancement.

For Speaker bookings contact info@fiveringstraining.com

Building Learning

"As an architect I designed and built schools but I couldn't see the clarity in the act unless we changed the people inside them. A well designed building is important but by itself it is not enough. That's when I began to see the need for new curriculum and built a school, in a different way, which would research, focus and develop material for others to learn from."

"In architecture we study the landscapes of life; cultural, social, economic, political, cultural and religious terrains, we look at how people move and how they gather, how they communicate, build and revolt. These are the matters of the collective.

At FRT we are concerned with matters of the individual; it's components, their relationships to oneanother, the impact of the lifecycle stages, the influences of the outer environment, the mind and its position as the director, and so forth. Both knowledge sets are needed to correctly programme the human system for change; hence the studies of both individual and collective states.

The mapping undertaken at FRT Research unit, under the Human States studies, has led to the root architecture now used as a software for FRT programmes which work along one human spectrum of recovery, development and change."

On Self Improvement

"The more you train, become educated, aware, the more clearly you see the changes within you alter the world around you.

This building self improvement at the four levels of education: mental, physical, energetic and spiritual, is a necessity at Five Rings Training because by changing the individual, we change the group."

Kirsty Henderson, Founder

Featured Current Work

Life Architecture

We are all here to build, build lives, legacies, build for others, and crucially build ourselves to our full human potential, physically and spiritually. By building ourselves we are less likely to negatively impact others and more able to become who were meant to be.

How can we do that if we do not understand our own architecture?

The Life Architecture series explains the core principles from The Architecture of The Human System (ref TED Talk) which provides a mapping of the root Architecture of the Physical. Energetic, Mental and Spiritual aspects of being human.

Mapped over years of deep studies in theology and architecture, human anthropology, social economics, human energetics and human behaviours, this learning series explains the core principles necessary to understand our human equation and to healthfully live a divinely connected and meaningfully fulfilling life.

In this course you journey deeply into human physical spiritual principles, core knowledge, ancient eastern training and daily physical-spiritual practice, theological discussion, philosophy, psychology, mindset training and individual and collective human behaviours to gain a rich understanding of what makes us who we are, how we are and how we can become who we were meant to be. Opening your world view to vastly higher perspectives, this information presents you with the opportunity for mindful and empowering aligned change.

"For he was looking forward to the city with Foundations, whose Architect and Builder is God." Hebrews 11:10

All volumes of the course are currently taught privately in immersive fascinating learning units, with hugely empowering one to one coaching and personalised home programming.

Life Principles

Following a survey across multiple generations in which we asked what do people want to know most, Kirsty has built this new and accessible life coaching series "Life Principles" to share core knowledge, insights and wisdom on each of those requested topics.

The series is currently available for learning via bookable Talks, our Advanced Coaching and Retreats, and will soon be available for purchase as a downloadable life guide.

To book learning, training and coaching contact us at info@fiveringstraining.com