Be Informed and Lead From the Front

 

2.5-hour online workshop to facilitate awareness and support around mental health concerns in sport. Designed specifically for managers, coaches, and sporting team staff to help you support the mental health of your athletes.

During the workshop, we discuss the types of mental health issues that affect athletes and the importance of early diagnosis and support. We help you recognize the signs and symptoms of depression and anxiety. This talk will provide you with a communication framework and tools to open the conversation with your team. It will bring awareness of the impact of stigma and the importance of early diagnosis and how to support and signpost.

 

Be a Champion, Support Mental Health.

Be Informed and Lead From the Front

 

2.5-hour online workshop to facilitate awareness and support around mental health concerns in sport. Designed specifically for managers, coaches, and sporting team staff to help you support the mental health of your athletes.

During the workshop, we discuss the types of mental health issues that affect athletes and the importance of early diagnosis and support. We help you recognize the signs and symptoms of depression and anxiety. This talk will provide you with a communication framework and tools to open the conversation with your team. It will bring awareness of the impact of stigma and the importance of early diagnosis and how to support and signpost.

 

Be a Champion, Support Mental Health.

What we cover

  • An overview of mental health in sports
  • The signs and symptoms of mental health illness
  • The treatments available to support
  • The impact of stigma
  • How to approach and support a team member experiencing poor mental health
  • How to start a conversation on mental health
  • How to signpost and support
  • When and how to engage in professional help
  • Sport Psychology tools and techniques

Who’s it for?

  • Club managers
  • Coaches
  • Sports teams
  • Sport staff such as physios, massage therapists, trainers

How you will benefit?

  • Better understand mental health, signs, and symptoms and how to recognise the red flags
  • Reduce stigma and discrimination
  • Understand and connect with your athletes and team
  • Communicate effectively and offer appropriate guidance
  • Be confident about opening and holding a conversation about mental health with someone you coach
  • Make your club or organisation more inclusive, and better prepared to be able to support people experiencing mental health difficulties

Delivery

  • Handbook provided
  • Delivery methods – A mixture of videos, tasks and discussion
  • Limited numbers per workshops to provide opportunities for interactions

Types of Attendance

This talk can be delivered to your organisation/club/group. Limited numbers. Please contact me to discuss.

If individuals or small groups are interested in attending, please register your interest by contacting me by email. I will contact you when the next workshop is running. This option provides you with the opportunity to mix with a range of different sporting groups. Limited numbers. Cost €50 each.

Are you ready to support your team?

Testimonials

Pat Sexton, Clare Sports Partnership

“For our Women in Sport Leadership Programme, we wanted the coaches to connect with their athletes and support them. Nollaig’s mental health awareness workshop ticked all the boxes and the feedback from coaches was extremely positive, a must for coaches”

Isadora Killeen, Doonbeg Ladies Football Club

“This workshop is an invaluable tool to equip coaches & sports staff with a greater awareness and understanding of the topic of mental health. It can enable a leader to better understand their athletes by making their wellbeing central & may ultimately save a life.”

Clodagh Nash, Tuamgraney Handball Club

“Nollaig was really insightful; I couldn’t get over how much I learned in such a short space of time! Some great tips picked up that would be useful not just for coaches, but also fellow players, friends and anyone working with people on a regular basis.”

Eimear King Kilmurry Ibrickane Ladies Football Club

“The mental health workshop is extremely beneficial to all organisations and the general public. ‘There is no health without mental health’. Nollaig uses both theory and real life examples in her workshops.
Highly recommended. “

Testimonials

Pat Sexton, Clare Sports Partnership

“For our Women in Sport Leadership Programme, we wanted the coaches to connect with their athletes and support them. Nollaig’s mental health awareness workshop ticked all the boxes and the feedback from coaches was extremely positive, a must for coaches”

Isadora Killeen, Doonbeg Ladies Football Club

“This workshop is an invaluable tool to equip coaches & sports staff with a greater awareness and understanding of the topic of mental health. It can enable a leader to better understand their athletes by making their wellbeing central & may ultimately save a life.”

Clodagh Nash, Tuamgraney Handball Club

“Nollaig was really insightful; I couldn’t get over how much I learned in such a short space of time! Some great tips picked up that would be useful not just for coaches, but also fellow players, friends and anyone working with people on a regular basis.”

Eimear King Kilmurry Ibrickane Ladies Football Club

“The mental health workshop is extremely beneficial to all organisations and the general public. ‘There is no health without mental health’. Nollaig uses both theory and real life examples in her workshops.
Highly recommended. “