Resilient Students. Empowered Educators. Regulated Communities.
From high-impact student workshops to transformative staff personal development, Kael Coster’s embodied programs are trusted by principals, wellbeing leads, and year-level coordinators across Victoria.
There’s never been more pressure on schools to hold it all—academic results, emotional wellbeing, behavioural challenges, and the complex realities today’s students and educators face. Empowered Coaching exists to help lighten that load—not with more theory, but through hands-on, hearts-in experiences that restore connection, resilience, and real presence.
Using a powerful fusion of martial arts, movement, breathwork, and ancient practices, our workshops support both students and staff to reconnect with their bodies, build emotional regulation, and rediscover their inner strength. For students, these sessions become a space to release pressure, explore identity, and develop confidence, self-awareness, and trust—in themselves and others. For educators, they’re an invitation to pause, reset the nervous system, and lead from grounded authority—so they can show up with clarity, energy, and emotional safety in the classroom.
STUDENT WORKSHOP TIERS
Empowering students with the tools to lead, regulate, and rise.
Your students are under pressure.
Stress. Anxiety. Peer dynamics. Leadership gaps. Self-doubt.
These workshops meet them where they’re at—and show them who they could become.
Through movement, mindset training, and modern-day rites of passage, we help them reconnect to their power,
learn to self-regulate, and lead with strength.
One off workshops and Motivational Speaking
🕐 Duration: 60–90 minutes
🎯 Best for: Year-level incursions, wellbeing days, assemblies
Short session. Big shift.
This one-off workshop is a high-impact experience that introduces students to powerful tools for emotional regulation, resilience, and self-leadership
—through movement, martial arts, breathwork, and guided reflection. It’s designed to reset energy, re-engage students, and lay a strong foundation for positive behavioural change.
🔹 Helps students shift from chaos to calm
🔹 Sparks self-awareness, confidence, and motivation
🔹 Creates an immediate energetic shift in group dynamics
9-Week Resilience & Leadership Program
📅 Duration: 45–60 minutes/week across 9 weeks
Leadership is built, not born.
This structured 9-week program develops student resilience and emotional intelligence step by step. Students learn to regulate stress, take ownership of their actions, and step into leadership from the inside out. Sessions combine martial arts, breathwork, fitness, and character-based coaching, tailored to meet students where they’re at.
🔹 Ideal for sustainable wellbeing and development
🔹 Reduces emotional reactivity and disruptive behaviours
🔹 Builds a culture of respect, courage, and self-discipline
Full-Day ‘Soul Warrior’ Immersion
🕘 Duration: Full-day (5–6 hours)
🎯 Best for: Year-level intensives, camps, term kick-offs or transitions
One day. A new direction.
A transformative rite of passage. The Soul Warrior Immersion is a full-day deep dive into resilience, courage, and self-leadership. Designed to meet students in their real-world challenges, it combines high-intensity training, restorative breathwork, and breakthrough reflections to shift identity and inspire purpose.
🔹 Creates powerful turning points in student identity
🔹 Strengthens cohort connection and belonging
🔹 Perfect anchor for camps, transitions, or school-wide mindset reset
Incorporates:
🥋 Martial Arts for confidence & boundaries
🧘 Breathwork + Yoga for nervous system awareness
🏋️ Fitness & Mindset Training for ownership and grit
🧠 Life Skills for adversity, clarity, and future pathways
📍 Aligned with PDHPE, SEL, Be You, Resilience Project
For Staff: Professional Development that translates to the classroom - and life
You can’t teach regulation if you’re running on empty.
Kael's staff PD workshops give educators the nervous system tools and embodied leadership practices to walk into classrooms grounded, present, and powerful.
This isn’t more “strategy.”
It’s about helping staff reconnect to their own wellbeing—so they can be the calm in the chaos, and model emotional safety for every student in their care.
Workshop Themes Include:
How fight/flight/freeze shows up in classrooms
Nervous system literacy for real-life teaching
Breath & movement for burnout prevention
How to regulate & hold grounded authority
Culture-building through embodied leadership
Delivery Options:
✅ 60–90 min PD Workshop: Perfect for after-school PD or term kick-off.
These sessions are experiential and practical, giving staff immediately usable tools to bring into the classroom.
✅ Half-Day Immersion: Ideal for Pupil-Free or Wellbeing Days. This deeper format allows time for integration, discussion, and movement-based embodiment work—leaving staff feeling refreshed and reconnected.
✅ Optional Add-On with Student Workshops: Strengthen your school’s culture by combining student and staff sessions. Reinforce a shared language of safety, regulation, and leadership across your whole community.
What Teachers Walk Away With:
- A nervous system lens to understand challenging behaviours
- Somatic tools to self-regulate in high-stress moments
- Ways to prevent burnout by working with their physiology
- Breath and movement techniques that can be used on-the-spot
- Confidence in holding grounded, compassionate authority
- A shared language for safety, regulation, and co-regulation
KAEL COSTER | COACH
“It’s safe to say I had a rough time in school. My interests fell into the ‘nerdy’ category. Bullying from my peers took it’s toll on me, and insecurities began to form a large part of my inner world. I began to question my worth and change who I was to gain acceptance.
At 16 years old, after an incident at school, I threw myself into my martial arts, determined not to be a victim. I replaced my fantasy books with a collection of black belts from various disciplines. The training and fighting provided me with enough physical confidence to get through the next while. But underneath, I was still hurting and struggling with feelings of inadequacy.
Years later, I immersed myself in the worlds of yoga, meditation and breath work. It was the inner work I had been missing.It might seem strange, but it all seemed to go hand in hand - the fighting and the stillness - to bring about the holistic healing I needed. The outer work and the inner work. The intensity and the softness. The yin and the yang.
I carry this same holistic balance into my mentoring. I know that personal responsibility comes from the safety of belonging. That compassion and kindness come from a place of connection and attachment. I look forward to journeying with more young people and helping them grow into young adults of integrity.
I am always learning and developing myself to provide a better program and knowledge. Currently i am studying a diploma of clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy. Along with a 460 hour biodynamic breathwork for trauma release. To better help understand mental health and trauma for this type of work.
TESTIMONIALS
“In my role as an Principal and Head of Secondary I’ve known Kael Coster for over 5 years now and during that time Kael has delivered High School programmes for students from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds and always tailors or adjusts to the needs of each school or students he is working with. His ability to engage and help students build self confidence, awareness, respect and decision making skills has been outstanding!! I highly recommend Kael to work with!!”
- PETER BRUCE Narre Warren South P-12
“Kael is now a regular scheduled activity within our school holiday program. Our program varies with children from 3-12 and Kael demonstrates patience and array of skills to accommodate all age groups. Kael not only shares his passion and skill for mixed martial arts but also how and why kael discovered MMA and the impact it has had on his journey. Not only is Kael passionate about MMA but also holds an appreciation for yoga which he introduced to the children. The children absolutely loved attempting new movement and winding down. Kael is very flexible and accommodating. Highly recommend including coster MMA in your next program to not only provide a excellent sporting program but an opportunity to create excellent conversations around how trying a new sport can positively influence your life and wellbeing”
- MIKAELA WEEDING St Pauls Anglican Grammer
“I brought my class into Kael's gym today for our first session. A lot of my students have disengaged from school and struggle to focus but Kael had their full attention from start to finish. He was not afraid to get in and grapple with the kids while maintaining a high level of professionalism, as well as share his. The kids and I are keen as for our next session!”
- TRAVIS JONES Drouin Secondary School
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