As part of the build-up to European Week of Sport in September, Sport Ireland Coaching in partnership with the LSP Network and the Sport Ireland Participation Unit is hosting a series of ICOACHKIDS Regional Coaching Conferences for coaches of children and teenagers.
There will be two ICOACHKIDS Regional Coaching Conferences in Donegal and Sligo hosted by local Sports Partnerships between 1st-4th September 2022.
The Donegal conference takes place on Thursday, September 1st at ATU Letterkenny from 6:30pm to 9:30pm.
The Sligo conference will be held in the Knocknarea Arena at ATU Sligo on Friday, September 2nd from 6:30pm to 9:30pm.
Two Internationally renowned speakers in coaching children in sport will present at both the Donegal and Sligo conferences the conference:
Sergio Lara-Bercial is a Professor of Sport Coaching at Leeds Beckett University (UK) and the Vice-President for Strategy and Development for the International Council for Coaching Excellence. He has published widely on a variety of sport-related topics including youth sport and coach development. Sergio is also the co-founder of ICOACHKIDS, a global movement helping coaches put kids first in sport by developing free resources for coaches, parents and sport organisations.
Sergio is recognised globally and consults for multiple high-level organisations such as Nike, UEFA and FIBA. He is also a former international basketball coach for Great Britain and has coached national league for over 25 years winning 18 National Titles with both male and female teams.
Nicolette Schipper van Veldhoven is professor ‘Sport Pedagogy, especially towards a safe sport climate’ at the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. She is also professor Sports Risks & Safety at the University of Twente, Enschede. She is also a strategic advisor on Youth Sport at NOC*NSF (1 day a week). Nicolette is a co-founder of ICOACHKIDS.
She has extensive experience in conducting (applied) research in sport and translating science into practice. She published several articles, book chapters and reports on transgressive behaviour, sexual harassment, sport and children with special needs and pedagogical perspective in sport. Among others, she is a member of the taskforce Sexual harassment and Sport of International Olympic Committee (IOC).
To register for either conference visit eventbrite.ie.
Registration for coaches costs €10.
The European Week of Sport runs from September 23rd-30th this year.
