PCA has made its name by presenting more than 10,000 live workshops for youth and high school sports leaders, coaches, parents and athletes, who have called their workshop experience "transformative" and "life-changing."
Our workshop titles are:
- "Leading Your Organization: Developing a Positive Coaching Culture"
- “Double-Goal Coach®: Coaching for Winning and Life Lessons”
- “Double-Goal Coach: Culture, Practices and Games”
- “Double-Goal Coach: Coaching the Mental Game”
- “Developing Competitors” – A Workshop for High School Coaches
- “The Second-Goal Parent®: Developing Winners in Life Through Sports”
- “The Second-Goal Parent: Tips and Tools to Develop Winners in Life Through Sports”
- “Becoming a Triple-Impact Competitor®”
Here are live workshop descriptions for youth sports organizations (PDF)
Here are live workshop descriptions for schools (PDF)
Request information from a PCA representative about partnering your school or youth sports organization with PCA.
Typically, an individual school or youth sports organization hosts a
Leadership workshop for its directors, a separate Double-Goal Coach
workshop for all its coaches, and a separate Second-Goal Parent
workshop. A Triple-Impact Competitor workshop is available for teenage
athletes in the school or organization.
PCA also offers
Partnerships that include workshops for school districts, conferences,
park-and-recreation organizations, leagues, and youth sports consortiums
in all 50 states and several other nations.
Each workshop takes
anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours, depending on our Partner's
preferences, and is led by a PCA Trainer with deep athletic and coaching
experience (usually at least three years at the high school level or
above). The Trainer explains PCA's three key principles -- Redefining
"Winning" as Mastery of Sport, Filling Emotional Tanks and Honoring the
Game -- and leads attendees through a series of interactive exercises
based on common youth sports scenarios.
The result is that the
group of leaders, coaches, parents or athletes begins to explore
different approaches for success and establishes a common vocabulary for
use in providing athletes a positive, character-building youth sports
environment.
Often, workshop attendees are "unfrozen" from
negative beliefs and practices they had accepted throughout their
sporting lives and experience an emotional awakening that benefits them,
their families, communities and most importantly, the youth athletes
they serve.