Latest Personal Development (PD)

During our COVD-19 closure, we have had the opportunity to participate in and undertake various courses and industry PD. These have included:

TAFE Studies:

- Cert III: Business

- Cert III: Customer engagement

International Studies:

- STA International Swimming Teacher Qualification

- STA International Baby and Pre-School Teacher Qualification

Swim Australia/Australian Swim Coaches & Teachers Association (ASCTA)

Courses:

- Adults & Adolescents Teacher Course

- Growing up in Lycra

- Making Champion Men

Learn to Swim:

- Swim School Owner/Manager Town Hall meeting 1 & 2

- Emma Lawrence: Teaching Babies and Toddlers

- Julie Robinson: Understanding anxiety

- Joanne Love: Driving Performance

- Carol Fox: Confident Communication through email and zoom

​- Craig Roberts: Swimming & Water Safety Framework

- Laurie Lawrence: The greatest showman

Coaching:

- Rohan Taylor: Remote coaching

- Ian Pope: Coaching juniors

- Bill Sweetenham/Eddie Reese/Dr Bruce Lawrie: The 400

- Stephan Widmar: Interlinked training

- Joanne Love: Effective goals protect the athletes mind

- Leigh Nugent: The importance of reviewing our last preparation

- Laurie Lawrence: Stuff the Silver

- Brett Hawke: Mental strength training

- Chris Mooney: All things Backstroke

- Garry Hollywood: Developing world class IM swimmers

- Michael Bohl: Flying

Australian Swim Schools Association (ASSA):

- Swim School Owner/Manager Town Hall meeting 1 & 2

- Health & Wellbeing Webinar

- Prepping for a Successful Reopening of Your Swim School: Staff and Customer Confidence

- Change Through the Understanding of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

- Prepping for a Successful Reopening of Your Swim School: Staff and Customer Confidence

- Health & Wellbeing Webinar

- Re-opening strategies

- How to Help your Students Return to Swim Lessons with ease

- Health & Wellbeing Webinar

- Commercial Leasing during COVID-19

- Remaining Engaged with your Customers During this Time

- Get your kids to listen without being an angry parent

World Wide Swim School (WWSS:) Laurie Lawrence

- Top 5 skills for babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers

- Back Floating Analysis - Birth to 4 years

- Learning Butterfly

- Stroke Development

Gold Class Swimming (GCS): Leigh Nugent, Rohan Taylor & Gary Barclay

- Nutrition for Swimmers

Swimming QLD:

- Training Load – Q&A

- Coach Workshop - Freestyle Technique

- ONCORE's fundamental skill sequences

- Coach Workshop - Backstroke Technique

- Coach Workshop – Breaststroke Technique

Swimming Australia:

- Safe Sport Course

- Instructing Others

Australian Government/ Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

- Keep Sport Honest: Match fixing awareness

- ASADA Anti-Doping Course for Coaches

- ASADA Anti-Doping Level 1

- ASADA Anti-Doping Level 2

- Clean Sport 101

- Ethical Decision Making - Helping or Dobbing

- Ethical Decision Making - It’s the Fans

- Ethical Decision Making - It’s the Fans, Coaches, Sports Fault

- Ethical Decision Making - Moral Duty or Team Duty?

- Ethical Decision Making - Starter Course

- Whereabouts Course

- Goal Setting