Fight for Life Skills

Fight for Life Skills is a recovery and life-skills program that develops and delivers evidence-based interventions for people experiencing depression, anxiety, or risk of drug or alcohol addiction. Its multidisciplinary approach combines mindfulness, movement, and techniques informed by cognitive therapy for depression and mindfulness-based stress reduction. The program draws on martial arts and related practices, including yoga, meditation, Tai Chi, Taekwondo, kickboxing, and jujitsu, to help participants build practical skills, reduce psychological triggers, and support recovery.

At the heart of the curriculum is a progression from self-control to self-esteem and self-efficacy, alongside principles such as accountability, balance, discipline, integrity, restraint, honor, and respect. Fight for Life Skills offers a life-skills curriculum and the Dragon Scale Life Skills Academy, with information and resources on addiction, anxiety, and depression. It also provides guidance for new students whose participation is directed by a doctor or the judicial system, and resources for instructors seeking to make a difference in their communities.