LIFE AFTER SPORT - Life After Sport – what do you do after you’ve done what you were born to do?

Looking Towards the Future

Presented by ALTstrat in conjunction with the Educational Sports Forum. Creating a new career now, with this new and exciting programme developed in partnership with your professional associations.

It’s aims are to enable athletes to make the next step in their career by giving them the knowledge skills and attitude needed to take control over the next steps, empowering them to build a new future for them and their family.

Participants can also expect to benefit from the confidence and creativity they will gain from learning with a range of people from other sports.

Its’ blended approach uses initial web based assessments which will be interpreted and translated in understandable language, followed by two - two day residential workshops and career coaching between workshops to provide stimulation and support.

Extending over eight weeks the programme aims to develop the ability of participants to take control over the next stage of their life. This maybe into education, business, public or voluntary sectors or setting up their own business.

During the programme, participants explore ways to manage the issues raised by questions like these. Whatever the complexities raised, two things are clear. ‘Self identity is a common theme of transitions, loss and retirement from sports and involves a loss of identity and emotional trauma’. ‘Athletes are more than their sport and taking time to sit still do nothing and consider where they go in the next phase of their lives is the key to defining a new identity and making plans for the future’. The programme is designed for sports people who have to retire early from injury or de-selection or at the end of a life in professional sport.

A strong theme running through the programme is the need to understand the personal needs and aspirations of participants and build a programme that supports your transition from sport to a new career. We aim to first understand your perspective and the role that sport has played in your life before helping you develop a new career in or outside your sport.

Participants will come from a range of sports including professional football, league managers, horse racing, boxing and others. They must be able to put time aside for work between residential weekends and be willing to carry out a number of tasks to develop their future career.

The assessment element of the programme will start the last week in February and the residential weekends will be held in the East Midlands on March 21st and 22nd and April 18th and 19th 2009.

Meanwhile, if you would like further information on the programme, or would like to discuss how the programme might meet your needs, initially contact Alan Irwin CEO Educational Sports Forum Tel, Mob 0771 746 7718. For detailed information about the programme contact Trevor Dolan Director Alternative Strategies (UK) Ltd, SATRA Innovation Park, Rockingham Road, Kettering NN16 9JH on: Tel 01536 414 616 or Mob 07974 391 848 or Email trevor@altstrat.co.uk

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