The focus of this training course is the integration of mental health awareness and peer support into inclusion activities that offer a co-operative and modified version of the game facilitated using a humanistic approach.
The overall objective is learning how to increase the accessibility aspect of the game and ways of reducing barriers to participation at the grassroots in communities.
Target groups for Pickleball for Wellbeing (PfW) activities include people who want to get more active but have no previous experience of group sports; people living with long-term health conditions and/or ambulant disabilities; people in rehab from injury or returning to physical activity after a period of inactivity; and people experiencing mental health issues e.g. anxiety and social isolation.
Training includes discussion about frameworks for planning and organising sessions to engage participants in appropriate wellbeing activity and how to build a sense of physical and psychological safety.
There will be practical group tasks on court to co-learn how to facilitate the uniquely devised PfW approach.
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Qualification criteria and policy
Holders of the Pickleball for Wellbeing CPD are not allowed to undertake regulated work or facilitate specific sessions for children, young persons or protected adults without holding a valid Pickleball Scotland PVG, having undertaken the relevant Safeguarding training and having completed the Pickleball Scotland Inclusive Practice CPD.
Failure to comply with or uphold the above criteria for the Club Coach role may result in disciplinary action or suspension.
