Sport Ireland Coaching Workshops

Sport Ireland Coaching plays a vital role in the development of high-quality coaching and training opportunities across Ireland. Through its collaboration with Cavan Sports Partnership, it ensures that coaches, volunteers, and sports leaders in Cavan have access to nationally accredited training programs. 

These courses, ranging from fundamental movement skills to sport-specific coaching certifications, equip individuals with the knowledge and skills to foster safe, inclusive, and effective sporting environments.

Sport Ireland Coaching have developed their Coaching Children Programme to provide candidates with a basic understanding of children’s sport and physical activity and best ways to optimise children’s enjoyment, participation and positive outcomes.

The programme consists of 4 workshops and is designed to be interactive and practical. Providing coaches the opportunity to network with other coaches of children. Sport Ireland Coaching sees these workshops as the first stage of development and hope we can build on these workshops to develop a comprehensive education system for all those involved in children’s sport. 

• Workshop 1 – Coaching Children Successfully in Sport – An Introduction for Coaches
• Workshop 2 – Child-Centred Coaching – Understanding Child Development & Learning and its Impact on How We Coach
• Workshop 3 – Developing Physical Literacy through Sport 1 – Coaching Children to Move
• Workshop 4 – Developing Physical Literacy through Sport 2 – Coaching Children to Think 

Sport Ireland Coaching has developed a course to give participants the opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding of physical literacy

This module is an interactive 2 hour workshop which will enable participants to:

• Outline the origins, definition, elements, relationship between the elements and importance of physical literacy.
• Explain whether individuals can be described as ‘physically literate’ and whether physical literacy can be assessed.

Developed by Sport Ireland Coaching in conjunction with the Federation of Irish Sport, the School of Health & Human Performance Dublin City University and Lifes2Good Foundation, the workshop is developed to enable coaches to create a positive experience of sport and physical activity for girls in their formative years and provide an environment where girls and young women can develop holistically.

Organised into 4 sections, the content categories are:

• What we know about Teenage Girls in Sport and the Role of the Coach
• Inside the Body and Mind of Teenage Girls
• The Coaching Environment
• Opportunities beyond the Workshop