2023 Coach Academy Live Lab takes place in Jindabyne

The 2023 Coach Academy Live Lab took place last week in Jindabyne, providing a specific opportunity to bring together winter sport coaches from all disciplines, along with keynote speakers, industry experts, and discipline-specific master coaches, for an immersive dive into key themes related to being the best coach possible.

The Coach Academy was born in 2019 with the intent to create a progressive development path for Australian winter sport coaches in a similar fashion to that experienced by athletes.

After gathering monthly online for the past year, this year’s Coach Academy cohort came together in person for the annual Live Lab in Jindabyne.

“Bringing this group of emerging performance pathway coaches together for two-and-a-half days in person allows us to anchor key learning and development across a variety of themes,” said Chip Richards, Coach Academy Lead Facilitator. The fully-immersive experience brings practical application to theory, while transforming this group of diverse coaches across many disciplines into an inspired, connected coach community.”

“This year at the Live Lab we’ve had a particular focus on translating “concept to experience” with a diverse group of guest presenters exploring key elements of coach and athlete performance through hands-on, interactive, practically-applied sessions on team culture, new frontiers of strength and conditioning, resilience, recovery, wellbeing and building a performance mindset.

Richards said the benefits of the Live Lab could be easily seen as a variety of experiences merged behind a common theme of achieving excellence.

“It’s awesome to see the way these coaches from different backgrounds and disciplines lean in, share insight and engage together with a focus on becoming the best humans and coaches they can, in service of maximising the performance potential and longevity of their athletes.”