Most recently Dangerfield was promoted to Rokudan (6th degree black belt) in the art of Aikido at the 100 years of Aikido celebrations in Malaysia 2012. Due to changes in the Yoshinkai Foundation Dangerfield, and other notable Yoshinkan instructors around the world, resigned from the organisation. Since then Dangerfield has continued to practice and teach both Aikido and Shinto Muso Ryu under the Kenshinryu 剣神流. He is currently the Head Master of the Kenshinryu and CEO of Compass. In 2014 Dangerfield's first book: Martial Reflections - In Search of Wisdom was published by Icon Publishing. It is a collection of short stories that blend practicality, budo philosophy and poetic imagery. 2014 also saw David awarded the Sunshine Coast Australian Citizen of the Year award for his pioneering work with youth at-risk, alternative education and for his contribution to the disability field. Also in 2014, The Compass Institute was the winner of the Knowledge Industries & Professional Services Large Business Award at the Sunshine Coast Business Awards. The first part of the process was based on an exhaustive written application where the Institute made it as a finalist in the category – Knowledge Industries and Professional Services. This category was one of the largest with 16 other finalists. Stage two was a 45-minute interview with 3 members of the judging panel. Winning this award signifies the hard work of the Institute as well as being strong recognition of its work within the community. Being a university qualified trainer, with over 20 years of experience Dangerfield has combined his martial arts skills with education in many different ways. David Dangerfield pioneered the use of Aikido as an Alternative Education framework in Australia with intensive behavior management programmes for youth at-risk expanded to include leadership development, special needs, personal safety and teacher in-service. Between 1992 and 2006 over 7,000 school students participated in the Aikido-based life skill programmes in south east Queensland schools Topics covered in the programmes include martial values, time management, self-identity, nutrition, relationship management and of course personal safety and self-defence. In 2001, Dangerfield ran a number of workshops for many of Queensland’s Paralympic athletes, sharing with them the technical and psycho-emotional training aspects of Aikido. Dangerfield has also worked extensively within the corporate sector, providing experiential style workshops that enable people to bring about change on an individual and organisational level. His unique approach combines his martial arts skills and experience as a trainer and educator to teach people about how to challenge or change the culture within businesses and corporations.