Dr. Matt Dewar
Mindfulness: Use Your Breathing to Transform Stress into Strength
The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families will present “Mindful Breathing to Transform Stress into Strength and Deepen Well-Being” at noon Thursday, April 15. Go to glenbardgps.org for the link to this webinar. Questions may be submitted to gilda_ross@glenbard.org prior to the event.
Adults’ responses to stress and adversity are instructive to the children and young adults in their care. Through the development of healthy and sustainable stress-managements skills, like mindful breathing, adults can turn stress into strength and build resilience in themselves, their families and communities.
For almost two decades, Matt Dewar has served as a coach, educator, and well-being coordinator at Lake Forest High School, where he introduces students, athletes, and colleagues to research-based mindfulness and self-care practices through workshops, courses, school-wide programs and professional development. He also has worked with collegiate and professional athletes and consulted with school districts on implementing mindfulness and well-being programming. He is the author of The Mindful Breathing Workbook for Teens and Education and Well-Being: An Ontological Inquiry.
GPS is generously sponsored by the Cebrin Goodman Center, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Community Coalition, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, DuPage Medical Group, Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Holiday Inn/Carol Stream, Kiwanis Clubs of District 9, and Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department.
For further information, visit glenbardgps.org or contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at 630-942-7668 or gilda_ross@glenbard.org.
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