Two workshops have taken place for Young Leaders as part of various training and development opportunities which have been made available.
Thanks to funding received from the Alec Dickson Trust (who support young people, through volunteering, aim to enhance the lives of others, particularly those most marginalised by society) two UK Coaching Inclusive online workshops have been delivered so far with a final workshop taking place in the new year.
The workshop is a unique development opportunity for sports volunteers and leaders to learn about the key principles of delivering inclusive activities and how to ensure that club sessions are fun and enjoyable for everyone.
The workshop covers how to:
- Create and adapt, progressive activities to include all individuals
- Find more information for yourself and the people you support
- Use the Activity Alliance’s Ten Principles to support people with a disability to be more active
- Apply the STEP tool and Activity Inclusion Model
The feedback received from the young leaders who attended so far indicates that:
- 100% rated their overall enjoyment as excellent.
- 100% now have a better understanding of how activities can be made more inclusive?
- 100% said that they could apply the learning to different parts of their lives such as clubs, school and everyday life.
- Examples of things that they learnt which gives you a better understanding of individuals with an impairment and how activities can be adapted to help support them are:
- The ways equipment can be adapted to support a wide range of people
- How you could modify activities to make them more inclusive how to include everyone in the different parts of aquatics and some of the common disability’s
- How to adapt a session to make it inclusive and available to all people
Anyone interested in the Inclusive Training workshop should email swimnortheast@swimming.org
