Participants will have the chance to hear from keynote speakers including Adelaide coach Brenton Sanderson, Power coach Ken Hinkley, Mark Evans, AFL general manager of football operations, Darren Burgess, Port Adelaide's head of high performance, former Opals coach Jan Stirling and Niall Moyna, professor of sports science at Dublin College University and seasoned GAA and International Rules coach.
Choose five sessions from seven streams focusing on various aspects of football, coaching and performance, including a specific stream aimed at junior coaches. This includes sessions on kicking, game sense and body contact skills for juniors and other choices including age-based fitness, coaching for maximum involvement, and effective training sessions.
If kicking is an interest, there are sessions available from Lindsay Gilbee (effective kicking), Kevin Ball (kicking for juniors) and David Wheadon (goalkicking).
The conference also offers topics such as building a game plan, coaching defence, coaching stoppages, effective forward structures, running patterns in the game, working without the ball, using vision in coaching.
Developing club coaching structures is another area, including the role of a club coaching coordinator, creating sustained success and managing talented players.
There are sessions on presentation and communication skills, and on develop the ability to provide good feedback. A session on how best to assist and develop Indigenous footballers will be conducted by Derek Kickett, and there are also presentations focusing on tall players and rucks, young players in different environments, coaching female players and running inclusive programs.
Some of the innovative thinkers in the game will take part, including former AFL coaches Peter Schwab and Stan Alves, Peta Searle, Jenny Williams, Michelle Cowan and current AFL club coaches including Mark Bickley, Matthew Clarke and Tate Kaesler (Adelaide), Josh Carr and Tyson Edwards (Port Adelaide) and Lindsay Gilbee (St Kilda).
Be part of a unique opportunity to mix with other coaches from all levels of the game from around Australia and talk serious footy for three days - share, debate, discuss and validate your ideas to improve your coaching effectiveness. Register now at http://aflcommunityclub.com.au/index.php?id=428
