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Learning Life through Sport is a program designed to challenge social norms and inspire young people and their communities to bring a new standard of behaviour and respect to sport and life.

 

“What other area in society would two adults deem it acceptable to roar abuse at a 14-year-old”

TEEN UMP ABUSE MUST STOP - Jack Anderson, Herald Sun July 31, 2022

 

Learning Life through Sport identifies positive ways to alter the inherited and often unacceptable behaviour of coaches, players, parents and supporters in junior sports.  These behaviours include umpire dissent and abuse (bullying), bad sportsmanship and a lack of respect for sporting codes and participants of sport.

 

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept and the time for change is now.  In our society where youth suicide is the biggest killer of young people in Australia, we have the perfect opportunity to help develop resilience and positive life skills through sport. Learning Life through Sport has been developed by Rod Campbell, a firefighter and sports coach of over 30 years’ experience, who has developed programs in Road Safety, Culture and AFL Football, based on behaviour and attitude changes.

 

Learning Life through Sport, when adopted as a whole competition approach, will show that rapid, impactful behavioural and cultural change is possible.  Rod will show case-studies where he has been involved in programs that have achieved this change, where lives have potentially been saved.

 

Learning Life through Sport is based on a powerful presentation designed to inspire and empower participants and sporting bodies to embrace change and create emotionally and psychologically safe environments in sport.  The new paradigm of learning life through sport is based on key values, supported by behaviours, creating the change we need to see.  These values become non negotiables embraced by the governing sport bodies and reinforced consistently by team coaches and clubs involved in sport.

 

We are privileged to have the hearts and minds of our young people in junior competitions and the opportunity to learn positive life skills through sport is essential.