Registration via Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/2day-coaching-skills-workshop
Cost: $250 + $13.19 booking fee + 10% GST ($26.20) = $288.19
Dates / time: Thu 7th August 2025 & Thu 21 August 2025, 18.00PM – 22.00 PM
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 Annie McCluskey (occupational therapist), Dr Simone Dorsch & Karl Schurr (physiotherapists).
[Registrants including employers who are unable to pay by credit card can request an invoice on the Humanitix platform at time of ticket payment (and must pay within 7 days via the StrokeEd bank account or the booking will be cancelled). Non-Australians can request an invoice excl Australian GST and also pay StrokeEd via direct bank payment, but need to request a separate invoice by emailing us at: info@strokeed.com]
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