A native of Los Angeles, Kurt A. Krueger lives what he teaches and teaches what he lives. He has won 16 medals in four Senior Olympic swim championships. Mr. Krueger has taught Peak Performance Practices around the world for elite athletes/coaches, performing artists, business people, and others. His goal is to have everyone physically and mentally fit throughout the 21st Century. He has been interviewed on Radio/TV and for the print media on four continents. Mr. Krueger was an All-American swimmer at Los Angeles Valley College and is a member of their Hall of Fame for water polo, and he also coached numerous world-record holders for San Fernando Valley swim schools; he was a member of Glendale College and Cal St. Uni. - Los Angeles faculties of Psychology and/or Physical Education. He has also coached soccer, football, basketball, and Track & Field. He is an internationally published author, photographer, lecturer and corporate consultant.
Mr. Krueger’s interest in Peak Performance Practices developed when he met a Master of these sciences in 1974. His integrative learning was tested three years later when he was a passenger on a JAL plane hijacked by the Japanese Red Army terrorists. Mr. Krueger used a PPP concentration technique he’d been practicing and found his mind relaxed and focused at the height of the crisis – the first coach passenger to speak with hijackers.
Returning to America, Mr. Krueger taught history and government at an inner-city ghetto school — Crenshaw High in Los Angeles. His mental control was again tested there when threatened by students carrying drawn knives. He peacefully settled the incidents by verbally demanding the weapons. His clarity and ease in an intense situation once again amazed Mr. Krueger and others. Fellow teachers recognized his ability to cope with crisis situations and requested that he instruct them in Stress Management techniques. This ultimately led to a series of highly successful presentations in Southern California culminating with a program at the United Nations in New York City.
Concurrently, Mr. Krueger also began training athletes for Peak Performance. It developed into a ‘systems’ program to strengthen a person’s body, mind and spirit. The use of these techniques had enabled him to win numerous medals in the Senior Olympics. Examples of some high school students improvements after just three months use of Peak Performance Training techniques: Greg Denby, a high jumper with a personal best of 6’6", leapt 7’1"; Macarthur Osbourn went from a 2:01 880 yard runner to a 1:54; Anita Sood, of India, set eight National swimming records, and Bejoy Jain, in 14 days, set a National Junior Record then swam the English Channel faster than any other Asian.
Mr. Krueger founded the Institute of Sports Psychology in 1982 in Bombay and ultimately developed into an organization with four more offices in: London, Melbourne, Tokyo and Los Angeles. The following year he founded Success Systems International to develop programs and practices specific to companies and performing artist needs. Mr. Krueger has trained the Claremont Professional Football Club, W. Australia, which took second in the Grand Final that year. He has trained professionals and athletes of SIX different countries National teams. He has been asked to and did present programs for the United States Military Academy, Young Presidents Organization, IBM and other major corporations. Mr. Krueger has presented at major international conferences such as, a keynote speech, Stress Management in Sports and Business, at the 1985 World Congress on Sports Psychology in Copenhagen; Fitness for the 21st Century at the 1988 Olympic Scientific Congress in Seoul; and Technology with a Heart workshop at the 1990 International Conference on Technology and Education, Brussels; and Strengthening Character at the 2002 Conference of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education Recreation and Dance. He has been published nearly 50 times internationally in magazines and journals. Also, he is a National Board Certified Teacher in ‘secondary’ Physical Education and is a trained Asst. Scoutmaster for Boy Scouts. Mr. Krueger has been serving on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Physical Education Advisory Board since 2000.
Contact Mr. Krueger for successful programs and dynamic interviews through, www.successsystemsinternational.net
Cultural Transformation, Character Inclusion, Peace and adequate prosperity for all.
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Festival participants will be anyone who enjoys music, games, performing arts, outdoor festivals, food, quality natural products, inspiring speakers (as in TED types), and cooperative philanthropy. Profits from the festival will be used to promote expanding WorldFest locations and be re-distributed to non-profits working for sustainable global solutions. Using the festival format, the WorldFest will entertain and educate attendees to the possibilities of creating sustainable solutions to some of our mutual issues of survival – peace, justice, and prosperity for all.
Each year, it will spread to more and more cities around the planet. The cultural transformation happens when there is direct contact with different peoples, having fun in a stimulating environment together on a regular basis. ALL for a higher purpose.
It is to be broadcast live throughout the world. The idea is to promote goodwill amongst people while helping the less fortunate.
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To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt
Many families spend a lot of time, care, and attention on nurturing values in their children. They do it the best way they know how given all of the other challenges that they are dealing with – we can supplement this. We can educate their children in the various character qualities for a wonderful and fulfilling life.
I propose that we dramatically enhance character development through societal education. Societal education includes all levels of society and draws forth from the people the innate values of each person.
There are character traits that all people could easily support. We would truly transform our society through education into a continuance of a QUALITY CULTURE. We would have less violence, an improvement of academic scores, and less social ills. Just look at end of this letter for some research on this. G.K. Chesterton wrote, "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." What kind of a soul experience would we like to pass on to the next generation? How do you wish to spread the idea? Obviously, begin with your modeling quality character traits. Pay It Forward!
Do you feel that it should be a component in all schools of the world? Could we design a task force to develop a Culture of Learning Character program for sharing with ALL educators and sectors of society, at all levels? Keep the focus on the higher reasons for living and education, developing our future compassionate leaders, and conscientious and wise followers.
How can you help?
Let’s focus our efforts on creating a better society by bringing our focus to drawing forth character qualities in everyone. This may be done through the full inclusion of character education throughout the curriculum of our education systems.