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