Life Champions
8 hours
CIMSPA CPD valid for 12 months
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
This CIMSPA-accredited online training helps coaches impact young people’s lives both in and beyond the sporting environment. Coaches will gain four CPD points and learn how to:
- Tackle inequalities and enhance inclusion in sports sessions.
- Integrate personal development activities to build crucial life skills in young people.
- Increase coaches’ awareness of their impact beyond sport.
The course is set over five modules, and involves workbook exercises, videos, and takeaway interactive activities. It identifies characteristics of being a Life Champions Coach and teaches about how 12 Key Practices can help young people develop into Life Champions.
Young people change their lives at Fight for Peace Academy through our sports sessions, our educational and employability support, our youth leadership programme and by being an active part of our community. But we can’t do this alone. Your support is crucial, empowering us to deliver opportunities and programmes that enable the next generation to be champions in sport and in life. Find out how you can get involved here.
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
Our course is designed for coaches of all sporting disciplines who work with young people – from children to young adults up to age 25.
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.