Sean Bowring

Education & Training Qualifications

  • First Aid & CPR Certified
  • Diploma of Fitness
  • Martial Arts Australia Accredited Coach
  • Strength Training and Ergogenic Aids
  • Personal Training Business and Marketing
  • Sports Specific Training
  • Resistance Training for Older Adults
  • Exercise for Rehabilitation
  • Business principles for Fitness Professionals
  • Advanced Postural Analysis and Exercise Prescription.
  • Advanced Techniques Professional Training – Crowd Control and Security
  • Knife Defence Training – with Ray Floro
  • Accredited trainer in Occupational Violence Prevention Training in Institutes with RCA
  • Accredited trainer in Ethical Response Safety Trainer in Disability with RCA
  • Accredited trainer in Managing Challenging Behaviours in Schools with RCA

Skills & Experience

  • Provided crowd control and security at hotels and nightclubs for a number of years during 1980’s and ‘90’s;
  • 1985 -1996 DHHS full time in the Human Resources (Personnel) section of the former Community Services Victoria (now DHHS). Recruitment Section where I was responsible for the advertising of vacancies across the Department which, at that time, looked after various Youth Training Centre Institutions, Children’s Centres and the Office of Disability Services. Often the job entailed me going out to CSV Institutions, Community Residential Units and Regional Offices, as well as Head Office line areas to act as the HR representative on selection panels, meet with management and local staff on Personnel matters and advise on appropriate and relevant actions. Later, I was responsible for the full devolution of the personnel recruitment function to local areas and institutions and the training of local staff in recruitment and selection. This required me to travel and meet with local management and employees to ensure they were properly trained in this area of Personnel function. Consequently, I gained quite an in depth knowledge of CSV’s direct care functions, needs and challenges.
  • Have run my own business, Zanshin Martial Arts and Fitness (formerly Top shape Fitness Solutions),since 1996:personal Training Consultancy and Martial Arts Instruction.
  • Extensive experience in group and one on one environments including design and presentation of boot camps for Defence,Science and  technology Organizations,All Stars Self Defence Centres, Tri-Tactics,Equilibrium Health Club and Recreation Health Club.
  • Self Defence Instructor for ‘in school’ programs for All Stars, Tri-Tactics and Southern Self Defence
  • In 2012 I ran Martial Arts Classes for indigenous children on Palm Island Far North Queensland
  • Ran in house Martial Arts Classes for Berendale clients: participants were Down’s Syndrome,Aspergers autism spectrum
  • Extensive lecturing in Schools on Self Defence, bullying, assertiveness training and Stress control.
  • Currently running fitness and conditioning sessions for the Defence Force, Science and Technology organisations.
  • Former Martial Arts instructor at St Kevins College, Toorak; Scotch College Hawthorn
  • Since 2008 working as a trainer for Institutes & school  teachers around managing challenging behaviours and in the disability sector training organisations state wide in areas of response training to manage behaviours of concern.