New Basketball Coaching Compendium for Youth Empowerment
- 25 May 2009 |
- Simon Prahm
This new Coaching Tool describes an approach which will maximize the impact of basketball activities used in sport and development projects.
“How can we maximize the impact of the time our Coaches spend with the kids?” After the first season of successful grassroots basketball and hip hop activities in housing development projects in Copenhagen, Denmark, this was the question GAM3 – a small Danish founded NGO – was facing.
Origins of GAM3
Seeing how marginalized youth from ethnic minorities could be brought together with Danish youth and find common grounds around basketball, GAM3 turned to the idea of using sports as a vehicle for social change.
Through the experiences from working with kids who hadn’t already found their way to organized sport clubs, an interest to increase the development aspects of the activities grew.
The Basketball Compendium
The latest result of this work is an English and Arabic basketball compendium dedicated to basketball coaches working in the field of development. The compendium introduces three levels of empowerment (individual, social, and community) with a series of 13 corresponding Training Themes (leadership, trust, democracy etc.). The drills which are illustrated by drawings and the classic coaching board diagrams each target one or more of the Training Themes making it easy for the coach to build trust or creativity depending on the needs of the local context.
Add to this the plain Season and Practice Planner included in the compendium, and you will find that it has never been easier to put the ball in to play and provide empowering development activities with a “sports first” approach for the youths out there.
[This article has been edited by the Operating Team]
“How can we maximize the impact of the time our Coaches spend with the kids?” After the first season of successful grassroots basketball and hip hop activities in housing development projects in Copenhagen, Denmark, this was the question GAM3 – a small Danish founded NGO – was facing.
Origins of GAM3
Seeing how marginalized youth from ethnic minorities could be brought together with Danish youth and find common grounds around basketball, GAM3 turned to the idea of using sports as a vehicle for social change.
Through the experiences from working with kids who hadn’t already found their way to organized sport clubs, an interest to increase the development aspects of the activities grew.
The Basketball Compendium
The latest result of this work is an English and Arabic basketball compendium dedicated to basketball coaches working in the field of development. The compendium introduces three levels of empowerment (individual, social, and community) with a series of 13 corresponding Training Themes (leadership, trust, democracy etc.). The drills which are illustrated by drawings and the classic coaching board diagrams each target one or more of the Training Themes making it easy for the coach to build trust or creativity depending on the needs of the local context.
Add to this the plain Season and Practice Planner included in the compendium, and you will find that it has never been easier to put the ball in to play and provide empowering development activities with a “sports first” approach for the youths out there.
[This article has been edited by the Operating Team]
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