Stephanie Cyr - Summer Safety for Adults ep. 3101
Today on One Life Radio, Bernadette is joined by Stephanie Cyr (NBC-HWC), the founder of PowerUp Moves, a personal development program designed to establish and improve healthy safety habits resulting in strength, self-efficacy and confidence, talking about summer safety for adults.
Cyr is an attorney and educator with over 25 years' experience as a specialist in violence prevention education, personal safety and empowerment, she is Faculty Lecturer of Personal Defense at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and is responsible for developing the first University Accredited Minor Degree in Empowerment Self Defense (ESD).
Stephanie is the author of The PowerUp Moves Notebook, an interactive empowerment self-defense higher education textbook, and has also written self-defense curriculum and trained instructors for the San Francisco Unified School District physical education department. Currently, she is collaborating with academics from other universities to develop ESD or (Empowerment Self-Defense) programming on campus, further violence prevention research, and explore the relationship of personal safety and mental health.
(In addition to her work in academia, Stephanie is a Senior Facilitator and Trainer for PAVE Prevention, a Consultant for The Association of ESD Professionals, and serves as a member of Joyful Heart Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting survivors of gender-based violence. She is the founder of Edge Self Defense and the author of The Weekly Edge and Moves of the Day. She has been featured at WorldWideWomen’s Girls Festival SF 2019.)
An accomplished martial artist with nearly three decades of experience in more than 10 different disciplines including Tae Kwon Do, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Kravitz Maga. Stephanie holds a Juris Doctor with Honor from the University of Maryland School of Law, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Rutgers University and is a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.
Learn more about Stephanie at powerupmoves.com.
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