Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Report
We are the change we seek’ is an idea that we, as New Wave instructors, constantly try to convey to our students. Now I can imagine several of my students reading this with a look of puzzlement and thinking, ‘When has my instructor told me –I am the change I seek?’ Well, I would ask those students to think back to the number of times they have been told that ‘they can achieve anything with belief and determination.’ I would ask them to consider how often they have been encouraged to push themselves in their training in order to progress. I would ask those students to think of how often they have been advised to adopt the principles and positive mindset that they cultivate in Taekwondo and implement it in all areas of their lives. Change is not something that is necessarily a one way street - something that always happens to us. With belief and desire to achieve, we can effect change not only in ourselves but also in those around us -‘We are the change we seek.’
My brother, Cliff Edwin and I often speak of this. It was one of these conversations that got us thinking about the ways in which we could improve our teaching and which in turn lead me to apply to The Winston Churchill Fellowship and that is how the journey began!
