Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in your Sport
Healthy Mind & Healthy Body
Governance & Safety for Sport
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Our Courses
Accelerate Sport’s mission is to offer relevant, important and engaging training opportunities to everyone in sport.
Our sport training courses are tailored to the needs of the sports industry and created in partnership with the very best experts, who excel in their field.
Each course is also backed up with a range of resources, webinars and social area to ensure every learner has the opportunity to digest and consider their learning in a supportive environment.
Take a look at the available sport training courses below to see which ones fit into your organisation’s Professional Development Plan.
Equality & Diversity
We want this course to help people understand the challenges faced on a daily basis by many coaches, athletes and sports personne, from different backgrounds, and also how these can be overcome.
Learn how you can ensure that your sport / club is doing all it can to make it a welcoming place for girls. This course will give you realistic steps that will help you engage with teenage girls.
This course will give your sport/ club realistic steps to take to engage with all your local communities. It'll consider what barriers might exist and then advise on how you and others can overcome these. You'll be given practical ideas on steps you can take to make your sport/club more inclusive.
This, in-depth course will help sports and clubs take realistic steps to fight racism and discrimination wherever it appears, be in on the pitch, court or in the stands. It looks at stereotyping and micro aggressions, Â a range of case studies, simplifies the law and focuses on the use of terminology and acceptable / offensive terms. It'll also allow learners to take on a range of scenarios in a safe environment.
This course will help your sport/club ensure it is a welcoming place for LGBTQ+ individuals and ensure all your workforce are aware of issues around terminology and behaviour.
Healthy Mind & Healthy Body
The course will enable you to understand more about how negative mental health affects young people, in a different way to adults. Â It'll build empathy amongst your workforce towards your young members and simplify neuroscience theories, helping you to help your young players deal with issues.
From the negative effects of Social Media to dealing with the aftermath of the pandemic, there's been a real spike in anxiety levels amongst young people recently. This course will teach you how to detect heightened levels of Anxiety in your young players along with the best ways of helping them deal with this in a positive way.
Authored by two former clinical psychologists, this course will look at the practical steps coaches can take to build resilience in their younger players, in a safe and empathetic way.
Eating disorders are becoming more and more of an issues across the sports industry. The course will enable you to spot the symptoms of a range eating disorders, understand the barriers to getting help and gain practical information about what you can do to help your workforce.
Created in partnership with Dr Richard Allison, you’ll take a deep dive into nutrition to improve performance in sport.
Learn all the definitions around mental health, the symptoms stigmas and how your sport / club can take steps to help your workforce
Governance
Created in collaboration with Sport and Recreation Alliance. This course will help you understand the steps you can take to improve the governance structure within your club/sport.
Learn how to better recruit your volunteers, support them through training and keep them. Find out about the benefits of micro volunteering and how to create volunteer strategies.
Learn how to better recruit your volunteers, support them through training and keep them. Find out about the benefits of micro volunteering and how to create volunteer strategies.
By offering insight into the fast-changing professional media landscape, the course will help you understand how to communicate effectively with the media to promote your club/sport
An introduction to First Aid for you and your workforce. Learn about what you should have in your first aid bag and the best way to deal with common ailments.
A course that will help you ensure that your events / matches are as safe as possible. Includes help and guidance on filling in all the required paperwork and tips on making sure the event runs smoothly.
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.