Pre-Season Education for Coaches

Set the Tone Before the Season Starts 

A positive sport culture doesn't start with the first game. It starts with how you prepare the people around it.

Next Play's interactive pre-season education session helps coaches and parents better understand the influence their behaviour has on young athletes and provides practical ways to model resilience when adversity inevitably shows up.

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Sport Teaches More Than Sport Skills 

Young athletes will face mistakes, losses, tough calls, pressure and disappointment. Those moments are opportunities to develop resilience — but athletes are also watching how the adults around them respond.

When adults model composure, perspective and the ability to move forward, they reinforce the same skills we want young athletes to develop.

That's where Next Play comes in.

 What Coaches Will Learn 

  • Understanding Their Influence 

    How coaches reactions and behaviour can shape a young athlete's experience, emotional responses and approach to adversity.

  • Modelling Resilience 

    Practical ways coaches can demonstrate the same composure, perspective and resilience they want athletes to develop.

  •  Navigating Emotional Moments 

    Simple strategies for handling mistakes, difficult calls, frustration and other emotionally charged moments in sport.
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  Why Bring Next Play to Your Club?  

Clubs spend significant time preparing athletes for the season. 

Next Play helps prepare the coaches who shape their experience.

Pre-season education helps coaches recognize how their reactions and behaviour influence young athletes and gives them practical strategies for modelling resilience when adversity inevitably shows up.

  • PROACTIVE 

    Start the conversation before challenging situations arise.

  • PRACTICAL 

    Give coaches simple strategies they can use when emotions run high.

  • CONSISTENT 

    Create a shared approach coaches can carry across teams and throughout the season.

Pre-Season Coach Education 

60-minute interactive session

Designed for coaches, the session combines discussion, real sport scenarios and practical strategies coaches can apply throughout the season.

Session includes:

  • How coach behaviour influences young athletes
  • Modelling resilience through adversity
  • Managing emotional moments
  • The Next Play approach: pause, reset, respond
  • Practical strategies coaches can use immediately

In-person delivery
Club Session: $500

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 Start the Season With Intention 

Give your coaches practical tools to model resilience, navigate emotionally charged moments, and positively influence the athletes they lead.

Bring Next Play into your pre-season preparation and give coaches strategies they can carry with them throughout the season.

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