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
đź“š Come away with instructions, practical tools and resources
🎓 Become GGSE Certified Leaders
The documentary is a teaching tool made in collaboration with top athletes and experts to promote healthy sport/life balance.
GGSE ambassadors Joe Siddall and Danielle Campo with Executive Director Mark McGuire and Senior Writer &Â Editor Bob Duff.
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.
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🍿 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
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The documentary is a teaching tool made in collaboration with top athletes and experts to promote healthy sport/life balance.
Senior Writer Bob Duff speaking at at St. Clair College.
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.
Bob is an Orthopedic Surgeon and Medical Director at the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic, University of Western Ontario.
Since 1974, Fowler Kennedy has been dedicated to being an international leader in sport and exercise medicine by providing integrated care with a multi-disciplinary approach to athletes of all ages and backgrounds.
Fowler Kennedy is an internationally renowned centre for sport and exercise medicine committed to providing cutting-edge clinical care and leadership in the advancement of sport medicine.
Bob is currently the President Elect of the Canadian Orthopedic Association and has travelled and spoken extensively on the risks and potential danger inherent in single sport specialisation. He is a strong seasonal, multi-sport advocate delivering his message to athletes, coaches, sport administrators and educators.Â
Bob was the surgeon for the Canadian Alpine Ski Team and has overseen more than two dozen of the sport’s top athletes.
Dr Litchfield is a graduate of both the Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail CO. USA and Western University, London Ontario, Canada
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Bob is an Orthopedic Surgeon and Medical Director at the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic, University of Western Ontario.
Since 1974, Fowler Kennedy has been dedicated to being an international leader in sport and exercise medicine by providing integrated care with a multi-disciplinary approach to athletes of all ages and backgrounds.
Fowler Kennedy is an internationally renowned centre for sport and exercise medicine committed to providing cutting-edge clinical care and leadership in the advancement of sport medicine.
Bob is currently the President Elect of the Canadian Orthopedic Association and has travelled and spoken extensively on the risks and potential danger inherent in single sport specialisation. He is a strong seasonal, multi-sport advocate delivering his message to athletes, coaches, sport administrators and educators.Â
Bob was the surgeon for the Canadian Alpine Ski Team and has overseen more than two dozen of the sport’s top athletes.
Dr Litchfield is a graduate of both the Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail CO. USA and Western University, London Ontario, Canada
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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