<img class="size-full wp-image-5977 alignleft lazyload" src="http://www.bishopodowd.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/biegel.jpg" alt="biegel" width="144" height="181" />Gina M. Biegel MA, LMFT to speak on “Parenting Stressed Teens and Mindfulness”
The first of our Parent Education Evenings speaker series will take place on Thursday, October 6 from 7:00 to 8:30 in the Theatre. Our speaker for this evening will be teen stress and mindfulness expert Gina M. Biegel MA, LMFT. Ms. Biegel will be speaking on helping parents better cope with stressed teens and the stresses of parenting. Please click this link to RSVP for this event if you plan to attend.
Gina M. Biegel is a psychotherapist who teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in multiple settings. She adapted the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program typically for adults for a teen population, and created Stressed Teens using the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens (MBSR-T) program. She conducts workshops and conferences on MBSR/MBSR-T with a variety of populations including professionals, teachers, parents, and teens in the U.S. and internationally. A more recent area of work is in bringing mindfulness into the California Elementary School system through her role as the Director of Research for Mindful Schools and is assessing the effectiveness of such a program. She is also exploring brain-imaging work at Stanford University with adolescents who practice MBSR-T. Her first book, a workbook, entitled, The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal With Stress, is currently available as well as her audio CD, Mindfulness for Teens: Meditation Practices to Reduce Stress and Promote Well-Being.