Life Champions
8 hours
Learn how to create supportive and inclusive environments and to prioritise holistic development for your participants, supporting them to develop key skills to use in their sport, and beyond.
Overview
Learn how to focus on holistic development in your coaching and how to include personal development activities in your session, supporting and empowering the people you coach, both in and beyond their sport or physical activity.
As well as learning how to create supportive and inclusive environments, you’ll also explore and be supported to develop the key characteristics of a Life Champions coach, which include:
Complete this online course to gain the skills to mentor participants in life as well as sport and expand your coaching impact.
- a broad approach to development
- strong values and a learning environment
- a focus on building resilience and life skills
- the ability to work within your limits, while constantly learning and improving.
This learning experience will help you to:
- Enhance your awareness: Increase your understanding of the broader impact of your coaching practice as a Life Champions coach, and how your influence extends beyond sport and physical activity to positively shape the lives of young people.
- Develop key characteristics and behaviours: The learning will support you to be able to identify and embed in your coaching the key characteristics and behaviours necessary for creating a supportive and inclusive environment for young people.
- Prioritise personal development: Practical tools combined with key learning will enable you to design and implement coaching sessions that include personal development activities, equipping young people with essential life skills.
Full course details
The course is aimed at people coaching young people, from children through to young people around 25 years old.
This course is self-paced and lasts approximately 6 hours alongside a workbook which takes approximately 2 hours.
Please note that there is no need to complete the full course in one go. It has been designed to be completed in parts, so that you can reflect on and practice various elements and try out new ideas during the learning experience.
You have access to the course for 3 months from the point of enrolment.
Our experienced advisors are on hand should you need any help with navigating through the course.
The course has been designed to be fully mobile-responsive, scaling up and down for mobile optimisation.
For the best experience, we recommend you complete it on a desktop.
If you have a visual impairment, we have designed the course to work with screen readers.
There are some videos in the course that feature audio. We have included transcripts to aid people with hearing impairments.
If you are an organisation and want to purchase this course for your learners, please get in touch.