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Susan Lubar SolvangGrowing Minds
414-949-5690
info@growingmindstoday.com
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Foundations of Mindful Living: Accessing Leadership & Creativity
In this course, participants will explore the foundations of mindful living as in our standard Foundations of Mindful Living class, through research based practices that develop our ability to pause and restore balance. We will additionally work with four qualities of a mindful leader: focus, clarity, creativity and compassion, all of which improve relationships and enhance our ability to meet daily demands. Applying mindfulness strategies to our leadership styles strengthens and cultivates creativity and excellence in the workplace and in our personal lives.
Learn how to:
- Decrease stress & anxiety
- Increase clarity
- Cultivate empathy and compassion for yourself and others
- Enhance relationship satisfaction
- Improve sleep
- Diminish emotional reactivity
- Deconstruct challenging patterns and habits
- Improve focus and concentration
- Understand the science related to mindfulness practices
Our class employs concepts from Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, both of which are used in businesses, hospitals and schools across the United States. It also incorporates strategies based on Mark Williams and Danny Penman’s book "Mindfulness: an eight week plan for finding peace in a frantic world” as well as Janice Marturano’s book, "Finding the Space To Lead".
Our Instructors:
Susan Lubar Solvang is the Founder and President of Growing Minds, a non-profit whose mission is to provide adults and youth with strategies to enhance their capacity for well-being and clarity. Growing Minds has written their own curriculum for Mindful Behaviors in Schools and is partnering with Mindfulness in Schools Project in England to teach .b Foundations, a mindfulness class for adults. Susan began learning about mindful awareness techniques over twenty years ago has been teaching in Milwaukee for four years.
Anna Silberg is the Director of Instruction and Research for Growing Minds. She has a PhD in Education with a specialization in Urban Education and Curriculum and Instruction. For 9 years she taught as an Assistant Professor at National-Louis University, where her research and expertise extended to teacher action research, authentic assessment and instruction, curriculum development, educational foundations and urban issues, and teacher mentorship. Her path of mindful awareness practices began as a way to bring stress reduction to herself and the teachers with whom she worked. Both Anna and Susan are certified MBSR trainers through the UCSD Medical School’s Mindfulness Center and have certifications in: Mindfulness in School’s -.b, Learn to Breathe, and Mindful Schools curricula. They both teach mindful skills to teachers and students in the Greater Milwaukee area schools as well as to adults.