Our workshops.
Our in-person workshops provide coaches, parents, girls and women with the knowledge and actionable guidance they need to stay in sport, reduce injury, improve health and wellbeing and reach their potential.
Our approach.
To ensure our education is impactful and inspires real behaviour change, we tailor each workshop or workshop package to the specific needs, awareness and engagement level of participants, conducting pre and post surveys to monitor impact and support participant follow up.
Our workshops cover six important themes, which have all been suggested by the girls and women we support, sharing the latest science on:
Puberty - impact of changing female body in sport (ability, injury, motivation).
Menstrual cycle - impact of female reproductive hormones on wider body in sport.
Tracking the menstrual cycle, how and why it is important.
Normalising coach athlete conversations on female physiology.
Understanding and supporting athlete-led training adaptations.
Playing sport on your period - practical solutions to common symptoms and challenges.
Optimise have created a safe and open space for conversations which didn’t always happen before.
Hear from Lucy Harper, Head of PE about the impact of our workshops at Weydon Secondary School
As a coach, understanding more about female physiology in sport will help you
Improve athlete health and wellbeing
Reduce injury risk
Support performance and recovery
Prevent more girls and women dropping out of sport
Hear from Ben King, Head of Athletic Development at Charterhouse about how this education can benefit male coaches
My coaching modules didn’t refer to the unique needs of girls and women in sport.
Which, thinking about it, is a bit odd.
Optimise has broadened my knowledge and made me a far better coach in so many ways.
Josh B. Under 16’s coach
As a parent, it's a relief to know that Optimise is working with local clubs and schools to keep my daughter and her friends safe, active, healthy and loving sport.
While we can deliver group workshops online, we have found behaviour change stems more naturally from in-person engagement - the words are said ‘out loud’, confidences built and trust cemented over shared awkwardness.
When a club, school or academy joins our movement, signs our Female Athlete Charter, delivers our education, this helps girls and women to feel like they belong, their experience matters and that you have their best interests at heart.
I can’t believe she got my coach to say the words ‘period’. It used to be embarrassing, now it’s just normal.
You packed a lot of information, talks and activities into a short space of time with such energy and enthusiasm.