2024/5 Winter CPD Webinars!

Course Description

Committed to your personal development? Looking for a way of keeping in touch with paddlesport development over the cold winter months? Looking for an antidote to streaming services?

Join us this winter for our CPD series of sessions! All session are run by enthusiastic subject matter experts. The sessions are friendly, easy to use and do not require you to have a high level of IT literacy!

Stoke the fire, pop the kettle on and join us of one (or more) of these great sessions!

Coaching the more skilful paddler – 12th February 2025 – Starts at 19:00 GMT

Concepts and techniques for developing performance. 

With Dr. Phil Kearney (Associate Professor in Skill Acquisition, Coaching and Performance at the University of Limerick) and Ed Christian (Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching and Physical Education at the University of Chichester).

This webinar will address a range of concepts and techniques for developing intermediate and advanced paddlers. We hope that the webinar will appeal to any coaches, instructors or leaders with an interest in developing learners beyond the novice stage and will seek to equip you with practical tips and tools for refining performance.

We aim to explore a range of topics at the cutting edge of Sport Science and apply these to coaching paddlesport. We will do this through discussion and interaction with the audience. Topics will include but are not limited to: Lost Move Syndrome (LMS), fixing bad habits, Challenge Point and providing external focus of attention instructions.

Any Instructor, Coach or Leader who attends will automatically receive 5 CPD points.

Paddle UK members and members of affiliated clubs receive a 50% discount at check out, please ensure your logged in to receive the discount.

£20 for non members and £10 for Paddle UK members. Book On Line Here

‘What do you need from me today?’ – 11th March 2025- Starts at 19:00 GMT

Ideas for supporting the development of coaches and leaders in an informal space.

This webinar is aimed at anyone, at any stage of development, with an interest in helping other coaches, instructors and leaders develop in an informal context. We know that ‘formal’ courses and training play a role in the development of expertise, but we also know that those informal ‘coaching conversations’ on the riverbank or a long car journey are also critically important.

In this interactive webinar, Chris Brain and Ed Christian will explore a range of topics including co-creating learning, providing autonomy and choice, meeting the needs of the learner, and strategies for listening. A central theme of the evening will be the idea of belief-led action, and the need to explore learners core beliefs and use these for the basis of their development. Whether you’re a seasoned club volunteer, planning your Coach Award assessment, a centre deployer or looking to move into a tutoring role, we hope this webinar will give you new ideas for facilitating those all-important ‘coaching conversations’.

So come along, ask questions, agree, disagree and challenge our thinking. All views are welcome – it will be very informal!

Any Instructor, Coach or Leader who attends will automatically receive 5 CPD points.

Paddle UK members and members of affiliated clubs receive a 50% discount at check out, please ensure your logged in to receive the discount.

£20 for non members and £10 for Paddle UK members Book online here

Adding creativity to your coaching – 10th April 2025 – Starts at 19:00 BST

In this CPD webinar, Chris Brain explores adding creativity to your coaching – How to incorporate games, challenges and activities to engage and develop your paddlers.

This open session is aimed at paddlers considering use of formal or informal opportunities for their paddlesport learning and development.

Any Instructor, Coach or Leader who attends will automatically receive 5 CPD points.

Paddle UK members and members of affiliated clubs receive a 100% discount at check out, please ensure your logged in to receive the discount.

£10 for non members, free for Paddle UK and Club Associate members. Book online here

We are also running a series of Webinars looking at the exciting sport of Paracanoe, you can read more here:Paracanoe Webinars

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