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Course Description

Developing your coaching philosophy – 14th October 2026

This webinar is part of the Performance Coach Webinar Series, hosted by Pete White and Ed Christian.

Pete is a performance coach developer and mentor with 10 years of experience in coach education across various training and educational establishments. Ed is a performance coach facilitator and national trainer, bringing nearly 30 years of paddlesport coaching experience and 15 years in educating and developing coaches.

Developing and presenting your coaching philosophy is a central part of your performance coach journey. In your final mentor session, you will present your coaching philosophy, and this will be sent to your assessor who, on assessment day, will expect to see your philosophy align with your coaching actions. Often connected with deep-thinking people from history, philosophy actually impacts and influences us throughout our day-to-day lives.

In this webinar, we will use philosophy to identify how our values and beliefs can (and do!) influence the way we coach. We will explore some of the different branches of philosophy and use these to ask ourselves some challenging questions that, we hope, will lead to new insights.

Questions for discussion might include: 

• How do coaches know what to do?
• Who holds the ‘power’ in the coach-learner relationship?
• What does it mean to be a coach?
• What is the value of coaching?

This will be a highly interactive webinar. Be prepared to think and reflect deeply on the experiences that have shaped you as a coach and contribute these to the discussion.

Intended learning outcomes include:

• Understand the coaching philosophy aspect of the performance coach award
• Discuss some of the ‘branches’ of philosophy and their application to coaching paddlesport
• Explore the link between our beliefs and our coaching actions

Understanding motivations for performance coaching – 11th November 2026

This webinar is part of the Performance Coach Webinar Series, hosted by Pete White and Ed Christian.

Pete is a performance coach developer and mentor with 10 years of experience in coach education across various training and educational establishments. Ed is a performance coach facilitator and national trainer, bringing nearly 30 years of paddlesport coaching experience and 15 years in educating and developing coaches..

Understanding and responding to your learner’s motivation is central to progressing through the Performance Coach pathway. The ability to recognise and respond to differing needs and aspirations from paddlers is crucial and allows the opportunity to develop a more personalised and appropriate coaching environment. Therefore, developing our understanding around creating a healthy motivational climate is foundational to our approach.

We will use the principles of Deci and Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory, as well as reflections on personal experiences, to explore ideas about motivating learners in a positive and long-term way.

Specifically, we will consider:

• The role of competence and skill in supporting motivation
• How the social environment and personal relationships affect us
• The importance of autonomy and the sense of having some form of personal power over what you are doing

This will be a highly interactive webinar. Be prepared to think and reflect deeply on the experiences that have shaped you as a coach and contribute these to the discussion.

Intended learning outcomes include:

• To understand motivational theories and their applicability to paddlesports
• To deepen our appreciation of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
• To explore how competence/relatedness/autonomy influence individuals
• To understand the connection between motivational theories and our coaching philosophy

Delivering and Assessing the Personal Performance Awards (PPA’s) – 25th November 2026

Join Dan Wilkinson, Paddles Up Training’s Lead Standards Officer & National Trainer, as he takes a deep dive into the awards, how to deliver the awards, and standards for assessment. There are updates coming soon on the awards and this webinar has been timed to take you through the changes, update you on the content and intent of the awards and share some ideas for making these awards fun and developing the paddlers you support.

This webinar is aimed at all providers at any level of the Personal Performance Awards, from Start to the Advanced awards. There will be an opportunity to ask questions.

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.

You can access the Personal Performance Award Provider eLearning here.

Understanding and developing skilled performance – 9th December 2026

This webinar is part of the Performance Coach Webinar Series, hosted by Pete White and Ed Christian.

Pete is a performance coach developer and mentor with 10 years of experience in coach education across various training and educational establishments. Ed is a performance coach facilitator and national trainer, bringing nearly 30 years of paddlesport coaching experience and 15 years in educating and developing coaches..

This webinar will focus on three key questions:

• What is skilful performance in paddlesport?
• How do we support the development of skill?
• How does your coaching philosophy underpin your approach to developing skilled performance?

We will explore these questions through conversation, using examples from our experiences and by considering key models of skill learning. Although we will look at some theoretical ideas, the intention is to keep this minimal and applied to paddlesport.

We will seek to make links between your ideas about learning skills and your coaching philosophy. For example, does your philosophy align with coaching behaviours that prioritise developing memory of how to perform a skill (i.e., learning happens in the brain) or that prioritises how paddlers interact with their environment, or maybe both? More importantly, can you clearly explain your thinking and give examples of how your coaching behaviours align with your beliefs? If not, let’s sharpen this up!

As well as some presentation of key content, this interactive webinar will be made up of conversation, debate, Q&A and problem solving.

Intended learning outcomes include:

• To define the term skill in a paddlesport context
• To explore a range of ideas about how skill is acquired and developed
• To appreciate how different coaching behaviours associate with different models of skill
• To understand the connection between coaching models and our coaching philosophy

Adding the Paddle Safer Award to your programme – 14th December 2026

Any qualified coach, instructor or leader can deliver the paddle safer course!  Through this interactive webinar, Chris Brain will explore how you can incorporate the Paddle Safer Award into your existing offer as a club, centre, course provider, coach or leader.

The Paddle Safer course is very rewarding for both the provider and the participant and certification is really simple (and also free!). We will guide you through the content of the course, the helpful resources available and look at how you might promote this to the paddlers that you work with. There will be an opportunity to ask questions.

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.

You can access the Paddle Safer Provider eLearning here.

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