Coach Training
Professional Development
The following Professional Development workshops have been developed by the Coaching Association of Canada to enhance your coaching ability and to enable you to provide a high standard of sport coaching for your athletes.
Along with the Multi-sport modules, the following courses reinforce the NCCP’s core values of continuous improvement and lifelong learning.
To enrol in one of the following Professional Development workshops today, please click here and then click on your Province or Territory for more information.
If you work with, or supervise youth of Aboriginal heritage, this workshop is an essential resource. If you wish to understand, relate to, and apply Aboriginal cultural perspectives that will allow you to motivate, inspire, and lead those youth towards a successful and meaningful lifestyle, this workshop was designed for you.
This interactive workshop is available to both Aboriginal and mainstream organizations who have Aboriginal youth in their sport, social, or employment programs. Aboriginal Sport Circle’s trained instructors will facilitate discussions which include role playing and group activities to engage all participants. This type of interactive setting has provided a fun, fulfilling, and positive learning experience for both participants and facilitators alike.
The workshop includes unique methods and perspectives not found in mainstream coaching certification programs. It is holistic in its approach and includes teachings of the Medicine Wheel, the four gifts, as well as the values within the four pillars and many other issues that are unique to Aboriginal culture.
The Aboriginal Coaching Modules were designed to provide culturally relevant courses for coaches and people working with Aboriginal youth and athletes.
Take your coaching to the next level!
An incredible addition to our NCCP workshop lineup, Empower + is an intense and thought provoking 4-hour workshop that will teach you how to enhance the well-being of the athletes in your care and be a positive role model in the world of sport.
In an interactive and dynamic learning environment, our expert facilitators will guide you through how to enhance athlete welfare by:
- Recognizing the potential for, and presence of maltreatment in sport;
- Learning when and how to intervene when you observe or suspect maltreatment.
You will bring your coaching to new heights by:
- Implementing the NCCP's renowned six-step decision-making model;
- Mastering the art of the difficult conversation; and
- Creating a list of key positive athlete development strategies you can implement in your coaching right away.
- This NCCP workshop will set you up for success in coaching and in life!
The Fundamental Movement Skills of throwing, catching, jumping, striking, running, kicking, agility, and balance and coordination, form the basis for future sport skill development and for the life-long enjoyment of physical activity. Learn how to OBSERVE and IMPROVE the fundamental movement skills through the format listed below which is best suited to you and your line of work.
Coach Professional Development
Target: Coaches or instructors with previous NCCP training/elementary school teachers.
Format: 3 hour workshop.
The FMS module will give participants the skills to:
- analyze and identify the various stages of development for the fundamental movement skills;
- apply a six-step process to teaching the fundamental movement skills;
- create safe games where children can practise fundamental movement skills.
A must-have for competitive coaches, this 4-hour dynamic and interactive introductory workshop will teach you how to prevent injuries and increase athlete performance through proven resistance training tools. Become a better coach by augmenting your plan with elements such as:
- Basic lifts
- Stability training
- Core training
