Courses,
Workshops &
Information
Coach and Club Education
Merseyside Sports Partnership values the commitment made by clubs
and coaches in supporting sport and physical activity for all in
Merseyside. High quality clubs and enthusiastic coaches, provide our
communities with a range of opportunities to enjoy sport at all levels and
abilities.
The aim of this booklet is to:
 Outline the courses organised to support individual coaches and volunteers to develop or enhance their
skills and knowledge.
 Detail the courses available to assist clubs which are committed to either working towards or maintaining
recognised standards such as Clubmark to help achieve their goals.
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A Guide to Mentoring Sport Coaches
Mentoring is a powerful tool in the education and development of sports coaches at all levels. If you’re interested in developing your
skills in the area of mentoring other coaches, then this workshop is for you. You Will Learn: all the tools you need to develop your
profile to the next level, how to design a mentoring programme that will support your coaches’ learning to increase the effectiveness
of your mentoring relationship.
Behaviour Change Tactics
This learning package will equip your exercise leaders or coaches with useful strategies and innovative techniques to help people
get active and stay active. You will learn: How to use EAST (Easy, Attractive, Social, Timely) as a simple framework for achieving
behaviour change, Master simple strategies that can influence behaviour and ensure participants keep coming back to sessions
and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Identify the individual needs, motivations and goals of participants, and how to tailor content to suit
them.
Coaching Children and Young People
This workshop includes essential information on physical growth, social and emotional development and early skill learning,
presenting the information in a practical and useful manner. It also covers how to adapt your coaching style to individual needs and
different stages of development, and how to deal with a variety of different situations. By the end of this workshop coaches will be
able to: Explain and identify why children and young participants take part in sport and plan and deliver sessions to meet their
needs. Match their coaching to meet the developmental stages of children and young people. Plan and deliver coaching sessions
that will maximise learning and enjoyment. Follow good practice when coaching children and young people.
Coaching Disabled People in Sport
This workshop tackles questions that are frequently asked by sports teachers, coaches and participants about how to work with
disabled sports people. This includes a whole spectrum of new ideas for inclusion, the workshop will introduce and offer guidance
to any coach involved with disabled people in sport, the emphasis being to introduce coaches to the Inclusion Spectrum and
effective practice.
Coaching Disabled Performers
This workshop will teach you how to apply and extend your current coaching skills to meet the needs of disabled performers. It
looks at terminology, integrated and segregated sessions for disability groups, basic communication skills, safety, medical
considerations and much more. Outcomes by the end of this workshop, coaches will be able to explain when integration and
segregation might be most appropriate, identify appropriate safety and medical considerations, review and extend their knowledge
of how to adapt their coaching to the specific needs of disabled performers, design and monitor a programme for a disabled
performer taking part in their sport, direct players to appropriate structures for competition and further coaching.
Effective Communication: Coaching Deaf People In Sport
Enhance Your Communication Skills and Meet the Needs of Deaf Participants. Developed in partnership with UK Deaf Sport and
the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) this is an interactive workshop that will help develop your communication skills, so you
can fully include deaf people of all ages. It’s very likely that at some point you’ll coach an individual who is deaf . Delivered by
coaches who are deaf themselves this workshop will give you the confidence to include them in your sessions alongside your
hearing participants. What’s more this workshop will help you develop your nonverbal communication skills so your day-to-day
coaching sessions will improve. You will: be aware of deafness and understand the barriers facing deaf people in sport. Have
developed your own communication skills and be able to use them effectively in any coaching session, be aware of and understand
the pathways for deaf sport to encourage deaf participants to aim high, be able to develop an action plan to include deaf people in
your coaching session.
Emergency First Aid for Sport Coaches
You will learn: Unconscious casualty - Primary checks A, B - Recovery position - Chest Compressions, Rescue Breaths. Conscious
Casualty - Choking - Shock Heart Conditions - Major Bleeding.
Equity in your Coaching
Everyone should have access to sport, regardless of gender, age, race, ability, faith or sexual orientation. As a coach, you have an
important role to play in ensuring this happens. The workshop will help you to apply and extend your existing skills to meet the
needs of present and potential participants. This workshop will help you, the coach to: explain what equity means and why it is
important, identify barriers to participation, use appropriate language and terminology, identify and challenge inequitable behaviour,
interpret the legal framework that affects coaching, identify how they can become more equitable and establish where to go for
further information.
How to Coach Fundamentals of Movement
Helps your coaches learn about the key skills that underpin the majority of sports. They’ll come away with a thorough grounding in
the FUNdamentals of Movement – agility, balance and coordination – as well as the importance of play, fun and enjoyment in sport.
Coaches in schools will also be able to understand how the FUNdamentals of Movement play a crucial role in the delivery of the PE
national curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2. This helps coaches to ensure they meet Ofsted criteria when supporting teachers in PE
curriculum time delivery.
How to Deliver an Engaging Session for Adults
This workshop is for anyone who works with participants who: Have never played sport, are returning to a sport that they have
played before, are taking up sport for health and well-being reasons, have barriers to overcome to be regular participants for
example: costs, confidence or misconceptions about current sport offer: Examples of the above include:
Existing UKCC Level 1 and Level 2 coaches who already coach but are being asked by their governing body of sport or county
sports partnership (CSP) to work different types of adult/youth participants.
How to Deliver Engaging Sessions for Young People
This workshop is for anyone who works with participants aged 14-25 and who: has never played sport, returning to sport they have
played before, taking up sport for health and well-being reasons, has barriers to overcome to become a regular participant; for
example, costs, confidence or misconceptions about current sport offer. Summary: This workshop equips coaches with the value
knowledge and skills needed to better the needs of 14-25 year olds. Through the use of practical examples.
Inclusive Coaching: Disability
Improve your ability to coach sport for disabled people by becoming a more inclusive coach. The course includes the basic
elements of classifications in disability sport and pathways for disabled participants. A practical disability sport session is also part
of the course.
Inclusive Training - Active Kids
Sainsbury’s Active Kids for All Inclusive Community Training (AK4A ICT) is a three-hour practical workshop complemented by eLearning that will support you before and after the training. The learning will help improve your knowledge, competence and
confidence in delivering sports-based activities to disabled people.
Positive Behaviour Management in Sport
This workshop aims to increase coaches’ awareness of the behaviour of young people, and the impact of the coach on the
behaviour of others. By the end of this workshop, coaches will be able to understand the ranges of behaviour coaches need to deal
with, understand and apply the principles that create a positive coaching environment and understand and apply strategies to deal
with negative behaviour.
Safeguarding and Protecting Children
Protect yourself, the young people you are coaching and your employer by understanding and following good coaching practice.
Learn about child abuse and how to handle situations if you have concerns. This workshop will help you the coach to identify good
coaching practice to promote a positive relationship with children, identify sport situations and coaching practice that might
constitute either poor practice or possible abuse, identify ways of dealing with your own feelings about child abuse and state what
constitutes neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse and appreciate why
reporting it is often so difficult to identity appropriate action if a child discloses he/she has been abused, identity appropriate action if
abuse is suspected and explain the role and responsibilities of other experts and describe appropriate practice that reduces the
likelihood of abuse occurring.
Safeguarding & Protecting Children in Martial Arts
In autumn 2015, the Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU) asked sports coach UK to develop a Martial Arts version of our
traditional Safeguarding and Protecting Children Workshop. The idea was to develop a workshop that takes into account the
terminology used within Martial Arts clubs and to make some of the scenarios used in the workshop specific to Martial Arts. This
workshop still offers all the vital information coaches will need to recognise and respond to abuse. Every child deserves to enjoy
their sport. This workshop will raise your awareness of the tell-tale signs of abuse, and give you the tools and confidence you need
to deal with any issues sensitively, appropriately and effectively should the need ever arise in your coaching career.
Safeguarding & Protecting Children 2: Reflecting on Practice
Build on knowledge gained since the first Safeguarding and Protecting Children workshop and share best practice through
scenarios and reflection upon the experiences of participants. Safeguarding and Protecting Children 2 satisfies the requirements of
the UKCC and Clubmark in relation to basic safeguarding and protecting children awareness training when attended as a refresher
workshop within three years of attending the first Safeguarding and Protecting Children workshop or an equivalent recognised
direct delivery workshop. This workshop will help you to: actively promote a positive and child-centred coaching environment using
key principles of relevant codes of conduct practice, demonstrate knowledge and awareness of current national legislation relevant
to your role, recognise, respond and make informed decisions about safeguarding children, consider a seven-step approach to
assist with decision making, respond appropriately to a disclosure or a concern.
What is Talent?
This is the first workshop in the Talent Foundation Series and is for high-performing coaches with an interest in talent development,
working, or having a desire to work, with emerging athletes within the England Talent Pathway. You will explore the definition,
understanding and research associated with talent in sport, discussing the implications for you and your athletes/players with
coaches from other sports, because the nature of talent development is so varied, your workshop experience will be very much
focused on what you and the rest of the group want to get out of that particular workshop, meaning you get a highly relevant,
personalised experience.
A Head for Talent
This is the second workshop in the Talent Foundation Series Looks at the mental side of athlete development, including growth
mindset, insights into developing resilience and mental toughness and looks at the concept of athletes having grit.
Talent across the ages
This is the third workshop in the Talent Foundation Series and is for high-performing coaches with an interest in talent
development, working, or having a desire to work, with emerging athletes within the England Talent Pathway. You will explore the
different types of ages that are present within developing talented athletes/players and discuss the implications for you and your
coaching practice, because the nature of talent development is so varied, your workshop experience will be very much focused on
what you and the rest of the group want to get out of that particular workshop, meaning you get a highly relevant, personalised
experience.
Getting Better, Better
This is the Fourth workshop in the Talent Foundation Series that focuses on how to maximise your training sessions through the
consideration of purposeful and deliberate practice, skill development, constraints-led coaching and how you might challenge your
athlete.
For more information on dates please look at our website under Courses or to
book on any of the above courses.
If your club or organisation would like to attend a course, which is not currently
organised by MSP, or a course arranged at your own premises/venue –
specifically for your organisation please contact Teri Wainwright at the following:
Telephone: 0151 728 1808 / 07843 647 454
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.merseysidesport.com/courses/