Is your club about to start preseason training and therefore truly care about the wellbeing of your players? Maybe you need to contact us at SALT and let us be a part of that support. Your club would benefit from the Positive Parenting and a Positive Coaching session from SALT that can be offered online…
The complete Club Wellbeing Package involves a live, face to face Wellbeing Session in the club and then a follow-up training of a Club Wellbeing Team. These sessions are best when completed in the preseason. Session 1: Wellbeing and Mental Health This is for every member of the club community, male and female, aged 16…
Thanks to Mawsons Concrete and Quarries we were able to work with 40 clubs in Regional Victoria in regard to Mental Health, Positive Sports Parenting and Positive Coaching. READ MORE SALT have recently completed the Mawson’s funded Mental Health and Wellbeing project across country Victoria. The funding allowed 31 clubs to receive a Mental Health…
SALT have recently trained 10 new engaging facilitators. The trainees have come from a variety of locations including from Canberra, Wodonga, Porepunkah, the Bellarine and metro Melbourne as well as a variety of sporting and professional backgrounds. The trainees have been working with Scott over several months through an online training process that provides them…
While most Club Presidents maybe described as stalwarts, we are not so sure this applies to Jack, the President of a great SALT Club, the Congupna Football / Netball Club. Jack is 26 years old and is in his second year as Club President. What was the motivating reason for taking on the role? The…
Our relationship remains vibrant with the VRGF Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation. We embed the content around ‘responsible’ gambling into a range of other courses that focus on young people becoming the best they can be. Our presenters are often surprised to discover how many young people are gambling regularly. We have a real challenge on…
As part of our service offer to the clubs that attended Clubs with Heart seminar, we collected pre and post After the successful delivery of the first of the Clubs with Heart seminar series, SALT have made a few changes that will result in an even better series 2 and so on. We made these…
SALT (Sport and Life Training) are proud to release their new website, a fresh and innovative overview of the valuable work they do in grass roots, community sporting environments. Check it out and we would love your feedback. https://lnkd.in/gRE2p_jn Our new website was designed and built by Gerson, a web designer specialising in custom dynamic websites…
Dave our SALT Founder shares some reflections on what’s being happening around SALT. The past few months has been littered with valuable insights. To summarise, clubs are struggling. I have spoken to dozens of presidents, committee members, volunteers. They are exhausted and frustrated. After years of preparing to get their teams Covid ready and then…
At SALT we often receive letters of thanks. Rarely are they as well written or as moving as this one:
“A few of us at Birregurra FNC had been talking for a while about bringing someone in to do a mental health and wellbeing session with our footballers and netballers, knowing that for many of us – young and old – maintaining good mental health can be an ongoing struggle.
As coach of the reserves footy team, I’m used to receiving Thursday night messages from blokes saying they won’t be able to play the coming weekend, because they’re going to a festival, going fishing, going camping, can’t be bothered, whatever. Midway through the 2022 season I received a Thursday night text from one of our twos players that absolutely floored me.
“I’m really sorry Pete, I won’t be able to play this weekend. This morning I tried to take my own life.”
