Dates / time: Wed 3rd & Tues 23rd June – 5:00pm – 9:00pm (Sydney, AEST)
Fully online via Zoom over two sessions. The same professional should attend BOTH sessions.
This workshop provides information and evidence about optimal coaching, and opportunities to appraise and practice your coaching skills.
Presenters: Dr. Simone Dorsch & Amanda Baker
Target audience: includes occupational therapist, physiotherapists, allied health assistants, rehabilitation nurses and exercise physiologists. Students and researchers are welcome.
Pre-requisites: None
Overview: This workshop will summarise research about instructions, demonstration, goals, feedback and motivation. Video examples will include stroke survivors , older adults, people with intellectual disability and other cognitive impairments. Pre-reading will be provided. This workshop involves practical activities but no clinical sessions with patients.
Learning objectives: By the end of the workshop, learners will be able to:
• Discriminate between instructions, cues, goals and feedback
• Use goal-oriented instructions to encourage and motivate learners
• Provide critical and timely verbal feedback
• Motivate people who have difficulty concentrating or dislike exercise
• Adapt the environment and coaching strategies to enable high repetitions
• Provide and receive peer review about coaching skills
• Reflect on and improve their individual coaching skills
Contact & Registration: Joey Tay
joeytkl@gmail.com