Key workshop themes

Understanding respectful behaviours in elite sport workshop

This workshop provides athletes and staff with an understanding of the context of respectful behaviours within elite sport and provides an introduction to concepts and themes in respectful behaviours. It allows participants to develop their own views, as well as listen to other peoples’ views, in relation to issues of gender, respect and relationships.

• 2 hours

Communication and dealing with conflict workshop

In a competitive environment, conflict can be inevitable. To ensure a positive, safe and inclusive high performance environment, developing participants who are open and willing to communicate issues early helps manage conflict.

This workshop assists participants to develop communication skills (digital and non digital) and to establish important connections between communication, conflict and consent in elite sport. It develops participants knowledge and understanding of respectful forms of communication in an elite sporting environment and explores personal comfort with conflict and provides strategies to help navigate conflict effectively.

• 3 hours
• Prerequisite learning required.

Bystander awareness and response training workshop

This workshop provides participants with strategies to identify, intervene and engage others in responding to problematic attitudes, practices and behaviours. It also provides practical examples of intervening as a bystander. It allows participants important opportunities to consider issues of safety associated with intervening, and for participants to form their own micro-level action plan so everyone is aware of their role in keeping respectful behaviours a core part of elite sporting cultures.

• 3 hours
• Prerequisite learning required.

Responding to serious incidents training workshop

This workshop is designed to enable participants to identify incidents in the DTE and how to respond in the moment. Participants explore their own reactions and feelings about potential issues that can be extremely challenging and confronting. This workshop may include issues such as how to respond to sexual assault or power imbalances between members (e.g. athletes, coaches and/or support staff). It provides strategies and practice for participants to respond to a serious incident.

• 3 hours
• Prerequisite learning required.

NOTE: For specific information on reporting integrity concerns in sport, please visit the Sport Integrity Australia website https://www.sportintegrity.gov.au/contact-us/anonymously-report-integrity-issues, opens in a new tab

Developing an ethical framework and practicing ethics of care with sport

This workshop is designed to provide staff with a framework they can refer to when difficult situations arise. This framework will allow them to look out for themselves and others by exploring personal ethics and putting these into practice.

• 3 hours
• Prerequisite learning required: Participants will be required to have a sound understanding of the research, nature, extent and challenges of respectful behaviours in the elite sporting environment before completing this workshop.