It's been amazing to see how interested and enthusiastic people are about the things that I brought to practice from the CDA program. In particular, discussions around phrasing of questions have been inspiring. Finnish Coach Developers network is now working on the questioning with padlet tool. For myself, it has been striking to note how small changes in assignments, for example, can lead to better activated thinking and learning. At coach education we have introduced coachi

L-E-A-R-N-S The participation of the NCDA academy heightened my awareness between the multi-faceted roles of a Coach Developer which spans from curriculum design, programme delivery, policy administration and programme support. During my course of work, I realised that there are distinct differences between the requirements and competencies of each role and yet most coach developers in Singapore take on at least two of these roles without training or assessment. Most assumed

So, I have been part of a team trying to support the creation of a sport coach development framework for southern Africa since 2011. The establishment of the framework has been officially mandated by the government’s sport structures and recently also been acknowledged by the Olympic movement in the region. The program has been moving in stages, and moving very slow the last couple years. However, the southern African regions’ Member States (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi