During Women in Sport week, we will be delivering a workshop aimed at supporting and educating coaches who coach teenage girls and sport!
When: Monday 3rd March, 6:30-9:30pm
Where: Zoom
Cost: €10
Delivered in an interactive format, the workshop offers opportunities to share experiences while equipping coaches with best practice solutions that they can adapt to their own setting.
Organised into 4 sections, the content categories are:
– Teenage Girls in Sport and the Role of the Coach
– Inside the Body and Mind of Teenage Girls
– The Coaching Environment
– Opportunities beyond the Workshop.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the workshop and associated activities, learners will be able to:
– Identify the key reasons why girls engage in physical activity and sport and why they drop out.
– Gain an understanding of the relationship between physical activity participation and mental health for adolescent girls.
– Understand the importance of communication (coach to girl and girl to girl) in retaining girls in sport.
– Raise awareness around the effects maturation and puberty can have on females.
– Identify the role of actual competence, perceived competence and confidence for engaging girls in sport and physical activity.
– Examine coaching practices and communication that foster autonomy, confidence, and belonging in girls across team and individual sports.
– Design environments that cater for relationships, connectedness and competition.
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