Last week, Girls and Football SA was involved in a coaches training course run by Coaches Across Continents (CAC) at the Khayeltisha CBD Multipurpose Centre. The course looked at how to best coach for social impact and was taught by two CAC coaches, Nora and Mike.
Various life skills were taught, including: Gender Equity, Health, Wellness and the Education. Each day, the training consisted of coaches doing numerous drills and coming together afterwards to discuss the particular life skill the drill was aiming to teach.
The final day of training brought saw the coaches applying their newly-gained knowledge by choosing a drill, adapting it to the South African context and coaching the rest of the group. After each drill, coaches gained constructive criticism on their coaching style.
The training course has provided our workshop leaders with new and creative ways to teach life skills to our girls. We are looking forward to seeing how we can implement what we have learned from Coaches Across Continents!
