#SYLboxing: free, non-contact, trauma-informed boxing for self-identified women; #SYLyouth: trauma-informed, non-contact boxing for youth
Niagara, Edmonton, Toronto
Joined August 2016
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As van Ingen points out...boxing’s color line was a defining factor. Though ...scholarship on Black male boxing history continues to grow, “scholars continue to pay insufficient attention to black female pugilists.” daily.jstor.org/how-to-fight… via @JSTOR_Daily @BrockUniversity
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Our new @SYLboxing article: Measuring the Effects of the Shape Your Life Project on the Mental and Physical Health Outcomes of Survivors of Gender-Based Violence by Kim Gammage, @cathvi @kirina_angrish
#boxing #VAW #traumainformed journals.sagepub.com/eprint/…
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Free resource: #trauma & #violence informed coaching manual (English & French) for downloading from @SYLBoxing - to support youth coaches - understand the impact of violence in order to effectively coach avail: shapeyourlifeboxing.com/
@a_delisio @MelWatpool @GovCanHealth
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National Film Board of Canada job posting: Director of Indigenous Relations & Community Engagement. Apply by May 23, 2021 - for applicants who self-identify as members of a First Nations group, Métis, or Inuit.
onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/jobs/positi…
#NFB
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For today's Moving in the Morning, we're led through a beginner's boxing workout!
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Today, is #OrangeShirtDay.
A day to recognize and honour the abhorrent and incredible injustices that Indigenous Peoples faced in Residential Schools. We need to constantly be educating and reminding future generations remember what happened, so it never happens again. /1
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Check out The Fight Back Podcast @fightbackproject episode on @SYLboxing and what it means to be #traumainformed open.spotify.com/episode/6vP… – at Toronto, Ontario
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.@SYLboxing is bringing free, #traumainformed youth boxing classes online with our new community partner @MJKOBOXING - Free #SYLboxing / #MJKO t-shirts to first 600 youth that join LIVE IG workouts by mjko_boxing – at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
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The @CSFF_CA has been running a virtual film fest that ends today (June 13). Catch today's films that focus on anti-Black racism, including taped Q&As.
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"Many of the young people EFC works with may have fallen through the gaps in mental health services" - Like #SYLboxing, @EmpireFightingC uses non-contact boxing as an hook
theguardian.com/sport/2020/m…
@MJKOBOXING @DrDeborahJump @DrCRMatthews @DrAlexChannon
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200 youth in #Niagara and #Edmonton will benefit from the expanded @SYLboxing program @BrockUniversity thanks to new funding from @PHAC_GC announced today by MP
@VBadawey #TraumaInformed #Boxing #GBV
Researcher Cathy van Ingen @BrockUniversity and her team have been awarded funding from @PHAC_GC to expand their @SYLboxing program to include youth affected by violence @BrockFAHS @cathvi
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Tomorrow we are officially launching a new #SYLboxing program for youth in #Niagara and #Edmonton. We will work with 200 youth who have experienced violence and train 20 coaches/program workers in #traumainformed approaches.
Members of the community are invited to #BrockU tomorrow for an announcement about the Government of Canada’s support of the Shape Your Life (SYL) boxing program for youth affected by family violence. Learn more ⬇️ brocku.ca/brock-news/2020/02…
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Great piece by Joan Wiley on the benefits of boxing... especially when you are in your 60s and find a place like @UnderdogsBoxing
theglobeandmail.com/life/fir…
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Why is violence against Indigenous women and girls everyone’s concern? @robynbourgeois youtube.com/watch?time_conti…
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#SYLboxing is still looking to hire certified female boxing coaches in #Edmonton to work with youth in foster care. Please RT and share with your coaching networks.
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Finished the 1st #SYLyouth @SYLboxing Trauma & Violence-informed coaching workshop @BrockUniversity. Our community coaches start working with #Niagara youth in Jan 2020!
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"...the concept of safety is fundamental to our mental state. People who have experienced trauma have bodies that are highly reactive to perceived threat." @SYLboxing #TraumaInformed
"When you step back and see the brain and body thinking together, the old distinction between reason and emotion doesn’t seem to make sense," says @nytdavidbrooks nyti.ms/34AeWuI
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Check out the free @SYLboxing education materials co-created by @Maura_SUP and @BridgeStateU students:
shapeyourlifeboxing.com/educ…
Includes material for teachers & learners. Includes approx time for each lesson, discussion questions and more
#TraumaInformed #GBV #Boxing
