Over the past few months we have developed a series of online webinars to support the education and empowerment for clubs and their people to be courageous in their endeavours, to get up when life becomes complex, complicated and difficult, and to genuinely invest in personal selfcare in the generous care of each other. Image above,…
Response to Pandemic So, what does a COVID year look like for a face to face organisation that needs sporting clubs to be operative to do what we do? It looks challenging is the short answer. Especially when you consider that we came off a similar year in 2020. We wrote 3 new online courses,…
The Board of Sport and Life Training Limited has accepted the resignation of Peter Burns, SALT CEO, effective 10 September 2021. Peter has taken a global role with a youth-serving not-for-profit. The Board is grateful for Peter’s contribution to SALT during the extreme challenges COVID 19 brought to 2020 and 2021. The Board is delighted…
At SALT we were looking forward to working with bushfire affected sporting clubs in East Gippsland and helping them with tools and strategies to re-build. We were going there this week and next week but due to lockdown restrictions we have, heartbreakingly, had to postpone our trip. In speaking to clubs, we know that they…
It’s been a very insecure and rocky road since the beginning of 2020 and mental health issues have been a very natural fallout of the times we’ve been through.
But there are large number of Australians who believe they are coping. They are working productively (whether at home or at the workplace), looking after their families and loved ones, doing what activities are allowed dependent on the times and generally feeling like they are in control. They have energy and they aren’t depressed but they may not anticipate anything in the future like they used to do. Describe “languishing” to them and see the understanding dawn in their eyes.
Despite enduring their own struggles, local sporting and community clubs in East Gippsland have approached SALT to help them offer much needed support. During the last week of June 2021, SALT will be visiting the region to deliver Mental Health & Wellbeing Sessions and set up Club Well-Being Teams in 16 different clubs. The 90…
The social isolation experienced by so many club members during the COVID-19 lockdowns, has bought into sharp focus the need for sporting clubs to modify how they operate and to make nurturing the mental wellbeing of their members a centrepiece of their operation
Values, standards, ethics, principles – whatever you call them – are central to building a club that is successful not just on the field, but as community centric organisation that is also trusted with helping young people grow and develop.
How to be a Better Sports Club – Cultural change in community sport. A violent off-field altercation between players from two local cricket clubs led both clubs to completely review their values and purpose. They’re still rivals on the field, but co-operate around mental health support programs. Guest: Dave Burt – founder SALT (Sport and…
SALT Founder, Dave Burt speaks on SEN Radio morning show. Dave is interviewed by Julian De Stoop on coping with failure and in particular dealing with missing out on the draft.
