Over the last 16 months WWPIS have been working across the Scottish Hockey Programme delivering a range of sessions to staff and parents.
Sessions have been delivered to staff and coaches around ‘Creating Positive Parent Cultures’ and the building of positive relationships with players’ parents to enhance the experience for all involved.
For the parents we have delivered a series of workshops that have taken the parents on the sporting journey alongside their children throughout their time in the pathway.
- Performance sports parenting; an introduction
- Managing disappointment; avoiding devastation
- Competition and Game Day – positively supporting and enhancing the experience for our sporting children
The buy in from parents has been phenomenal with over 500 parents attending the three sessions.
As the programme is developing we have refined and tweaked elements to meet the specific needs of those involved in the environment and the virtual sessions have proved incredibly popular.
With so many parents scattered around the country, there are logistical challenges to having everyone in the same place at the same time so the virtual world has provided a positive solution.
This year will see a combination of live and virtual sessions and we are incredibly excited about the discussions that we have been having to try and have the biggest impact possible.
To try and achieve this, WWPIS and Scottish Hockey will work together to deliver a number of specifically targeted and designed workshops and webinars across a number of key stakeholders.
All parents and coaches involved in the programme also be have access to a customised WWPIS/Scottish Hockey platform which includes all of the exclusive WWPIS content featuring over 250 blogs, videos, podcasts and infographics.
Gordon MacLelland, CEO of Working with Parents in Sport, said: “I am extremely excited to be working alongside Scottish Hockey to help support them in creating the best possible environment for young players.
“Everyone has a role to play in this and we are looking forward to working with and learning from key stakeholders to ensure we create the most supportive programmes possible.”
Scottish Hockey Brave Academy Lead, Kelly Fillingham said “The team and I are thrilled to be working with Gordon and the WWPIS team, we are excited about the programme of workshops and support planned over the course of the year and look forward to working closely together to further develop our strategic direction.
Scottish Hockey have been working hard to develop our parent/guardian engagement for pathway athletes and we look forward to taking the next steps in this journey with Gordon. We are excited to see the engagement and conversation this partnership will generate and the support this will offer for our pathway players, parents, and guardians.
Gordon will be leading on a series of workshops for parents/ guardians while also working closely with our coaches and Scottish hockey staff to drive our strategic vision around parent/guardian & player engagement.”
