Susan Lubar is the President and Founder of Growing Minds. Susan is a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based practices to Milwaukee area schools and businesses. Her vision is to facilitate the cultivation of innate skills that increase your own wellbeing and have a more positive impact on your relationships, through self-awareness, compassion and reflection. She has trained with the most established programs, including Mindfulness in Schools Project .b and .b Foundations, Mindful Schools, Learning to Breathe, UCSD Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher training and Mindful Self-Compassion with Kristen Neff to develop the programs that would be useful to Milwaukee area schools.

Stacy is a bilingual (English/Spanish) Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been blending mindfulness-based practices into her clinical and community-based throughout her career. Her social work experience over twenty years spans the areas of long-term care and end of life counseling of older adults and their families; outpatient mental health counseling of adults and older adults; inpatient mental health counseling and discharge planning with children, adolescents, and adults; trauma-responsive organizational change and mindful workplace consultation; and volunteer work in the areas of domestic violence and improving access to culturally and linguistically appropriate care in Milwaukee’s Spanish speaking community. Since attending her first meditation class twenty years ago, mindfulness-based practices have been the foundation for her own personal mental and physical recovery and on-going self-care. She is a lifelong learner herself and is passionate about helping others increase their own capacity to thrive.