Prowess Coaching is a provider of coach education workshops. These include the Climbing for All: Disability Awareness workshop.
The Climbing for All course is what I call a Coaching in Context course; looking at how we incorporate the existing BMC FUNdamentals courses into practice with disabled climbers. Where existing instructional courses (CWI, RCI, MCI etc) focus on keeping people safe in various environments, the Climbing for All course looks at the specifics of teaching climbing to disabled climbers.
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Please note: there are NO pre-requisites for this course. Any climbing instructor and coach is welcome to attend
What’s Covered on Climbing for All
Climbing for All looks at refining our delivery of climbing coaching and instruction specific to disabled climbers. This includes:
- Types of disability. Defining different types of disability people may have
- Models of disability and delivery. We break down the two different models of disability and three models of delivery open to us
- Practical delivery of sessions. Including providing side support to a climber and building a hoist system
- Language. We look at appropriate and inappropriate language when working with disabled climbers
- Breaking techniques down. We look at how to break climbing techniques down in relation to disabled climbers using a model of my own design, the Abdall Diagram
- Further information including success stories and a look at the paraclimbing competition scene
Each workshop is a one-day event and is a mix of classroom based and practical learning (as practical as possible) so bring your rock shoes and get ready to get on the wall! However don’t expect us to be trying super hard. The focus is on coaching and there is no minimum grade requirement. In the event of injury – or even if you choose not to climb – there is no requirement to climb at all, although we generally find most people are psyched to get on the wall.
After the course, you’ll be provided with a link to the Climbing for All Resource page. Here, you’ll be able to download the course slides, Course Notes and much more, as well as having a heap of further reading links.
These workshops are stacked with useful information to help you with your clients (or even your own climbing) all delivered in a super relaxed, super chilled out environment.
Prices
Public Courses
- £50
Private Courses
Private Courses are also available for centres, businesses, groups and more. They are charged at
£300 per day + £10 per person + expenses
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Payment is required in advance to secure places on both public and private courses.
After the Course: the Resource Pack
It’s a big old day with heaps of information. Being as there’s a lot of stuff to remember, each participant on the course will receive an email designed to give you something to refer back to: your Climbing for All resource pack.
Included in the pack is:
- The Course Slides
- Course Notes covering the content of the day
- Downloadable files covering many of the sections of the day
- A Prowess Reflection Sheet, which can also be used on any other course (with any provider) in the future
- Links to external articles and resources
- Links to relelvant articles on the Prowess website
- Often more too, depending on the course
Cancellation Policy
Circumstances change, things come up and occasionally people can’t make it. It’s understandable. If this happens to you, the sooner you can let me know, the better as I can hopefully fill the space with someone else. If you let me know two weeks before the session/course/workshop then I will issue a full refund. If you let me know between two weeks and one week before the session/course/workshop I will issue a 50% refund. If you let me know less than one week before the session/course/workshop then no refund will be issued. Remember you need to pay to secure your place on the course or your place may be allocated to someone else. If the course is cancelled by Prowess, a full refund will be issued.