2025 The Coaching Skills Workshop (online)

This workshop provides information and evidence about optimal coaching, and opportunities to appraise and practice your coaching skills.

Presenters:  Dr Annie McCluskey (occupational therapist), Dr Simone Dorsch (physiotherapist).

Fully online via Zoom over two sessions. The same professional should attend BOTH sessions.

Dates / time: Thu 7th August 2025 & Thu 21 August 2025, 18.00PM - 22.00 PM

Cost: $250 + $13.19 booking fee + 10% GST ($26.20) = $288.19

[Registrants including employers who are unable to pay by credit card can request an invoice on the Humanitix platform at time of ticket payment (and must pay within 7 days via the StrokeEd bank account or the booking will be cancelled). Non-Australians can request an invoice excl Australian GST and also pay StrokeEd via direct bank payment, but need to request a separate invoice by emailing us at: info@strokeed.com]

Target audience: includes occupational therapist, physiotherapists, allied health assistants, rehabilitation nurses and exercise physiologists. Students and researchers are welcome.

Pre-requisites: None

Overview: This workshop will summarise research about instructions, demonstration, goals, feedback and motivation. Video examples will include stroke survivors , older adults, people with intellectual disability and other cognitive impairments. Pre-reading will be provided. This workshop involves practical activities but no clinical sessions with patients.

Learning objectives: By the end of the workshop, learners will be able to:

• Discriminate between instructions, cues, goals and feedback

• Use goal-oriented instructions to encourage and motivate learners

• Provide critical and timely verbal feedback

• Motivate people who have difficulty concentrating or dislike exercise

• Adapt the environment and coaching strategies to enable high repetitions

• Provide and receive peer review about coaching skills

• Reflect on and improve their individual coaching skills

Find out more about our Coaching Workshops