Day 1 - Wednesday 31 May
Theme: Participant motivations and how to apply the modern approach
Intended audience: Coach and Official Education Managers and Participation Managers
Change management and the modern approach
Presenter: Cameron Tradell
Session Type: Plenary
Time: 9.40am to 10.00am
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Session Description: This session demonstrates the business value proposition to modernising the approach to coaching and officiating and will showcase how a strong alignment and connection between the community and high-performance education and training can facilitate and support greater awareness, scale and consistency for coach and official development and the positive impact it will have on the Australian sporting system.
Authentically 'Sport for All': Creating inclusive and psychologically safe sporting environments
Facilitator: Cameron Tradell
Session Type: Panel
Panellists: Megan Elliott, Alexis Cooper, Sue McGill and Maia Tua-Davidson
Time: 10.00am to 10.45am
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Session Description: The panel will explore the importance of creating quality sporting environments to enhance the participants experience to thrive in sport. They will discuss the importance of inquisitive coaching practices, how to create physiological safe environments and provide insights on supporting methods to build sport capability and capacity.
Defining motivations: Coaching & officiating learners and social participants
Presenter: Dr Richard Keegan
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 11.30am to 12.45pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Session Description: Participants are motivated to take part in sport in many different ways and these are influenced by a variety of factors, including age, gender, culture, ability, family and peers. This workshop will share insights into some of the varied motivations for learners and social participants and the impacts sport planning, systems, pathways and delivery can have on supporting participants to achieve their own individual versions of success.
Children, junior and youth Sport: Retention messages
Presenter: Dr Shane Pill
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 11.30am to 12.45pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Field
Session Description: Youth sport retention is a critical issue for many reasons. Regular physical activity is essential for children's health and well-being. Sport can provide children with valuable life skills such as teamwork, discipline, and goal setting. Sport can help children develop a sense of belonging and identity. However, these things are not guaranteed simply by providing sport, and in this country youth sport drop out is a concern, and in particular for girls who drop out in greater numbers than boys. There are a number of factors that can contribute to youth sport dropout, and two factors clubs and sport bodies have most control over are the quality and type of coaching, and the nature of the sport experience. In this workshop considering youth sport retention, I will propose a guidelines for the nature of sport experiences from entry through juniors to youth sport, as well as outlining a framework for the role of the coach in youth sport retention.
How to engage volunteers
Presenter: Dr Lindsey Reece
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 11.30am to 12.45pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Court
Session Description: TBC
Skills framework design: FMS, physical literacy and group management
Presenter: Cam Tradell
Session Type: Plenary
Time: 1.45pm to 3.00pm
Focus Audience: Coaches
Room: Arena
Session Description: This session will empower coaches to support optimal sport learning and growth, informing sports pathways. This session will help you understand the importance of physical literacy to develop the whole participant and ensure their competence, confidence and motivation can thrive.
Optimising officiating engagement
Facilitator: Brooke Kneebush
Session Type: Panel
Panellists: Clare Polosak, Chris Behan and Yvonne Mullins
Time: 1.45pm to 3.00pm
Focus Audience: Officials
Room: Field
Session Description: This panel will explore the fledgling official’s journey from awareness through to intentional alignment. They will identify connections, barriers and exit points and consider bespoke yet scalable interventions to create a compelling and sustaining experience.
What you coach and Game Sense
Presenter: Dr Shane Pill
Session Type: Practical Session
Time: 1.45pm to 3.00pm
Focus Audience: Coaches
Room: Court and outside
‘Max 20 attendees per workshop’
Session Description: This practical workshop will bring to life the What you coach Masterclass using the Game Sense approach. Attendees will be required to complete a variety of tasks and activities (including practical activities) that are designed to improve their knowledge of how to design and lead a session underpinned by the Game Sense approach.
Design Principles: The modern coaching approach design considerations
Presenter: Rebecca Clark
Session Type: Main Session
Time: 3.10pm to 3.40pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Session Description: Learn the method applied to support the modernisation of your coaching and officiating education frameworks. This session will overview the 9 design principles to define and service methods to support the coach and official development including the "how" and "what" to coach and officiate. As well as to engage, but importantly retain, participants on their sport developmental journey.
Bringing the design principles considerations to life
Presenter: Cameron Tradell and Rebecca Clark
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 3.45pm to 5.00pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Session Description: Undertake the first steps and learn the method to develop a robust strategy to service requirements based on modern sporting and societal expectations, to start the process of modernising your coach development framework.
Where to begin with course and content development
Presenter: Dr Will Vickery and Sarah Ogilvie
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 3.45pm to 5.00pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Field
Session Description: One of the biggest challenges with redeveloping a single course or a whole program is where to begin. In this workshop you will learn the basics of where to start and why, as well as how to decide what a course/program will include. Hear from others at different stages of this redevelopment.
Compliance vs. Development: What is best for your coaches and officials?
Presenter: Julia Lawrence and Brooke Kneebush
Session Type: Networking and Collaboration Session
Time: 3.45pm to 5.00pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Court
Session Description: Sport organisations often grapple with how much they need their coaches and officials to meet specific requirements against how much personal development they should be subject to. In this workshop, delegates will be challenged on the purpose of their coach and official education programs and what best practice can look like.