Is your sports team, community, or sports association interested in exploring opportunities to promote a balanced approach to sports and life for kids? Are you curious about what physical, mental, and emotional well-being looks like in youth sports? Would you like to learn how parents, coaches, and administrators in other countries are helping children thrive in sports?
Book GIVE AND GO Sport Education to help you spread the word and support our grass roots movement.
Attendees will receive evidence based research on the advantages of a seasonal and multi-sport model for a safer, healthier and enjoyable structured or unstructured sport experience.
🍿 Watch GIVE AND GO - A Sports Education Documentary
🤔 Learn best practices from subject matter experts
🤝 Participate in individual and group exercises
📚 Come away with instructions, practical tools and resources
🎓 Become GGSE Certified Leaders
Executive Director Mark McGuire and Senior Writer Bob Duff provide the humble origins of the GGSE movement and how the documentary came to fruition. Slowly a number of national sports organizations, Olympic and professional athletes, colleges, universities, and mental health agencies have joined our movement. Mark and Bob speak about providing sport - life alternatives to parents, coaches, sport volunteers and grandparents.
🍿 Watch GIVE AND GO - A Sports Education Documentary
🤔 Learn how we advocate for physical, mental and emotional health of kids in sport, and how you can too
🙋 Q & A session with a guest panel
Mark McGuire is a former professional European athlete and coach, Coaching Association of Canada Learning Facilitator and Ontario Minor Hockey Association Course Conductor. For over 35 years Mark has certified coaches and instructed skills to thousands of learners in four countries.
Mark has extensive experience and competency in performance development initiatives for individual, team and organisational growth. Mark owns a Leadership Development business which helps clients attain sustained behaviour change and measurable results.
As a subject matter panelist, presenter and thought leader, Mark advocates for the physical, mental and emotional health of kids in sport. He promotes the seasonal, multi-sport model for a healthier, safer and more enjoyable amateur sport experience.
Mark is a graduate of St Clair College, the University of Windsor and the Goethe Institut (Munich).
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Mark McGuire is a former professional European athlete and coach, Coaching Association of Canada Learning Facilitator and Ontario Minor Hockey Association Course Conductor. For over 35 years Mark has certified coaches and instructed skills to thousands of learners in four countries.
Mark has extensive experience and competency in performance development initiatives for individual, team and organisational growth. Mark owns a Leadership Development business which helps clients attain sustained behaviour change and measurable results.
As a subject matter panelist, presenter and thought leader, Mark advocates for the physical, mental and emotional health of kids in sport. He promotes the seasonal, multi-sport model for a healthier, safer and more enjoyable amateur sport experience.
Mark is a graduate of St Clair College, the University of Windsor and the Goethe Institut (Munich).
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Bob Duff is a veteran Canadian journalist and a published author who has covered sports at all levels for more than three decades.
Through conversations with movers and shakers within the sports world, Duff has unearthed many opinions on the benefits of seasonal sport, and in the case of some elite professional athletes, how they believe participating in other sports has allowed them to excel in their chosen sport. Duff is a four-time Professional Hockey Writers' Association Award winner.
He's also a four-time recipient of the Ontario Newspaper Award for sportswriting. Duff covered two Olympic Games for Canadian national newspaper chains. He's a past vice-president of the Society of International Hockey Research and an honorary member of the Elias Sports Bureau.
Bob is a graduate of York University.
Bob Duff is a veteran Canadian journalist and a published author who has covered sports at all levels for more than three decades.
Through conversations with movers and shakers within the sports world, Duff has unearthed many opinions on the benefits of seasonal sport, and in the case of some elite professional athletes, how they believe participating in other sports has allowed them to excel in their chosen sport. Duff is a four-time Professional Hockey Writers' Association Award winner.
He's also a four-time recipient of the Ontario Newspaper Award for sportswriting. Duff covered two Olympic Games for Canadian national newspaper chains. He's a past vice-president of the Society of International Hockey Research and an honorary member of the Elias Sports Bureau.
Bob is a graduate of York University.
The analyst for Blue Jays Central, Joe Siddall of Windsor, Ontario was an MLB catcher with the Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins and Detroit Tigers.
A three-sport star in high school at Assumption, Siddall was recruited to Central Michigan University on a football scholarship. He made his Major League Baseball debut in 1993.
In 2014, Siddall was hired by the Toronto Blue Jays to work alongside Jerry Howarth during Blue Jays radio broadcasts.
Joe won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Sports Analysis or Commentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
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The analyst for Blue Jays Central, Joe Siddall of Windsor, Ontario was an MLB catcher with the Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins and Detroit Tigers.
A three-sport star in high school at Assumption, Siddall was recruited to Central Michigan University on a football scholarship. He made his Major League Baseball debut in 1993.
In 2014, Siddall was hired by the Toronto Blue Jays to work alongside Jerry Howarth during Blue Jays radio broadcasts.
Joe won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Sports Analysis or Commentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
A Paralympic swimmer and world record holder from Windsor, Ontario, Danielle won seven Paralympic medals, including three gold, two silver and two bronze.
She is a Registered Social Worker and motivational speaker.
She was invested with the Order of Ontario, the province's highest honour.
Currently, Campo is a Director at Muscular Dystrophy Canada and sits on the John McGivney board of directors.
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A Paralympic swimmer and world record holder from Windsor, Ontario, Danielle won seven Paralympic medals, including three gold, two silver and two bronze.
She is a Registered Social Worker and motivational speaker.
She was invested with the Order of Ontario, the province's highest honour.
Currently, Campo is a Director at Muscular Dystrophy Canada and sits on the John McGivney board of directors.
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