In The Squat Garden II
A practical skills workshop:
If you've ever stood in front of 10 people and told them what to do, only to have them do something completely different, you'll understand why The Squat Garden was created.
With limited time and resources and a desire to make progress, the temptation to focus only on those who "get it" or those who challenge you is real. We can get caught up in the struggle - fighting over the task.
What happens when we don’t have to fight over the task?
In The Squat Garden:
● Is a coach development workshop based on discovery. With no good or bad way of completing the tasks, right or wrong is taken off the table.
● You'll experience 10 different ways to squat—10 different ways to receive information, process it, and interpret the experience. None are difficult or designed to catch you out, but each will get you thinking about your coaching.
● You can think of it as a prototype - a chance to confirm what you already know about coaching but also to learn things that could completely change your mind.
In The Squat Garden gives a platform to:
● Build your professional network
● Get fresh insights and creative solutions from other coaches
● Open you up to how you think about your coaching practice and how others think about theirs.
Workshop Flow:
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Welcome: A chance to play In The Squat Garden
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Breakout Session ONE: “I Noticed”: Capturing your observations
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Breakout Session TWO: “I Wonder”: Capturing your conversations
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Breakout Session THREE: “What If”: Applying what you have learned to your practice
3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wrap-up: A chance to come together to share what we have learned.
In The Squat Garden, like-minded coaches come together to advance the craft of coaching.
Skills on show:
Courage
Self-Expression
Self-Belief
Assertiveness
Interest in Others
Listening
Questioning
Flexibility
What will you notice? What will you want to talk about? How will you use what you learn about your practice to build stronger, more collaborative relationships?
We are not fighting over the task because we are doing it together.
What do I need to bring?
You don’t need to prepare anything. You just need to show up.
What if I am injured or can’t complete an exercise?
All the exercises can be regressed and simplified, and none are designed to catch you out.
Who else is going?
Open to all backgrounds, specialties, and experience levels. You don’t need to be an “expert” to benefit from this workshop - the collaborative nature of the workshop mirrors the collaborative nature of coaching.
If you are a sports coach or teacher who would like to explore how to use movement patterns like the squat pattern in your practice, then In the Squat Garden is for you.
Just as effective coaching requires collaboration with your athletes or clients, this workshop emphasises learning to work together and building stronger collaborative skills.
What is the goal of In The Squat Garden?
This is a discovery workshop, where you will be provided with lots of different ways to do the same thing - squat. Some you will want to take away and use, others not so much. But, far more than that, the goal is to develop your ideas around the skills you want to teach and the environment you want to create, all the while learning what it takes to collaborate with others to develop your practice.
If you walk out of the workshop knowing more about your approach to coaching than when you came in, we have been successful.
The Squat Garden workshop is part of the Show Don’t Tell series, a new approach to coach development. I’ve built a prototype to share my thinking, which we’ll then deconstruct together - allowing you to explore and refine your coaching practice through design thinking.
I’ve built this thing, and I think together we can do better. I hope to see you there.