Category: Live online events

Live online professional development opportunities

Webinar series by Dr Brian Hemmings – Gaining and Maintaining Clients in your Professional Training

Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:00 - 13:30 BST

Online

Meeting the challenges of the BASES SEPAR is not an easy task. This webinar is aimed at prospective/current supervisees and supervisors with an emphasis on the process of gaining and maintaining clients during the training pathway. 

This is the first webinar of four presented in this series, and as a result, there is a deal for those wishing to attend all four. Both BASES Members and Non-members can purchase and sign up, via the register button at the top right, to all four webinars for the price of three. For BASES Members, the price is £60 for all four, and for Non-members it is £75.

Identify active methods for gaining and maintaining new clients 

Discuss ways of generating opportunities that target the SEPAR consultancy competencies  

Utilise individual/peer supervision to maximum benefit 

Target CPD activity for the development of specific consultancy competencies 

Manage imposter syndrome/self-presentation concerns 

Demonstrate how transferable skills can be used for successful client interactions 

Mental Health First Aid Blended Online Course

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 3:00pm to 7:00pm AEST

Online

ESSA are proudly presenting a Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) course for ESSA Exercise & Sports Science Professionals. 

The Standard Mental Health First Aid course teaches participants how to provide initial support to another adult who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis, until professional help is received, or the crisis resolves. Course participants learn about the signs and symptoms of common mental health problems in adults, how to recognise and respond to an emerging or worsening mental health problem and the treatments and supports available.

Using a practical, evidence-based action plan, course participants learn how to approach someone they are concerned about and initiate a conversation about those concerns. Participants also learn how to offer initial support and information and how to encourage the person to seek professional help or other supports. Adults who complete the course become Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAiders), equipped with the knowledge, confidence, and skills to provide someone with mental health information and support when it matters most.

This Standard Mental Health First Aid course is delivered in a Blended Online format. You will need to complete eLearning materials online prior to attending the online course on the scheduled day. 

Resistance Training for People with Heart Failure Virtual Workshop

Monday, 22 April 2024 4:00pm - 6:00pm AEST

Online

This virtual workshop will summarize the existing literature on resistance training (RT) for people with chronic heart failure (CHF). The benefits of RT in people with CHF will be described and common methods to establish an individual with CHF’s RT capacity will be provided. Recommendations for RT exercise prescription in people with CHF will be made. A discussion of the safety considerations for RT in people with CHF will be discussed. 

The American Heart Association (AHA) has just published a new guideline on resistance training (RT) and Neil Smart was invited to present a specific session on RT for people with chronic heart failure (CHF) at the recent AHA Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia, USA, Nov 2023. Both the updated AHA guideline and Professor Smart’s presentation were part of a 4-part symposium entitled “Resistance is not Futile’ and subsequent panel discussion. These recent works provide the ideal, timely opportunity to provide an update to ESSA professionals.

Presented by Professor Neil Smart, AES, AEP

Strength & Conditioning and Clinical Practice: A Two-Way Street Webinar

Wednesday, 17 April 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm AEST

Online

The presentation, “Strength & Conditioning and Clinical Practice: a two way street,” offers essential insights into how exercise practitioners can incorporate principles of strength and conditioning into clinical rehabilitation settings and vice versa. This presentation will highlight the utility of strength and conditioning approaches in many clinical capacities including when dealing with chronic pain, neurological conditions, and more. Further, the presentation will then explore how the biopsychosocial model, which is becoming ubiquitous in clinical settings, can strengthen our approaches to strength and conditioning.  

Dr Mitchell Gibbs starts by defining the underlying principles of strength and conditioning, such as specificity, the interplay between volume and intensity, and the overarching importance of the dose of exercise. This emphasizes the need for exercise prescriptions to be tailored to an individual’s needs and capabilities, whilst still maintaining an appropriate dose to elicit desired adaptations.

Addressing chronic pain, Dr Mitch discusses the role of graded exposure and strength training (Gibbs et al., 2022 Musculoskeletal Care). They illustrate how these methods can improve pain and disability without affecting the magnitude of improvement in pain compared to ‘traditional’ approaches (Gibbs et al., 2022 Clin Rehab), which challenging traditional views that suggest rest and avoidance of activity. Real-life case studies are presented to support these points, demonstrating successful application of strength and conditioning principles in pain management. Dr Mitch then continues with examples of how strength and conditioning principles are able to be applied in a range of clinical settings from neurological to cardiometabolic and more. 

Pivoting, Dr Mitch then applies the same logic to strength and conditioning and the lessons that can be learned from the clinical context. Beginning with the profound similarities between pain and fatigue as experiences not entirely explained by physiological markers, Dr Mitch takes the audience on a thought experiment of how a biopsychosocial lens can enhance our understanding of strength and conditioning in athletic settings. Drawing on key work questioning the historical/traditional approaches to periodisation and performance, Dr Mitch aims to leave the audience with a critical mindset toward ‘following the rules’ in strength and conditioning, moving toward ‘questioning the rules’ toward innovation. 

Presented by Dr Mitchell Gibbs, AES

Powerlifting Fundamentals for Athletic Performance Webinar

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 2:00pm - 3:30pm AEST

Online

This webinar develops practitioner understanding and knowledge of the similarities and differences between non-disabled and para powerlifting competition, the uptake of powerlifting participation in Australia and applications for coaches and athletes to improve athletic performance. 

Participants in this webinar will develop an understanding of the fundamentals of powerlifting participation and the benefits of participation across the lifespan. For those working with athletes, this webinar will provide insight into athlete preparation and modifiable factors that influence competitive success. 

For general applications, this webinar will provide contemporary measures of strength for comparison and assessment in practice and will highlight new tools available to assess these outcomes.

Presented by Dr Dan van den Hoek & Dr Christopher Latella

How to Link Client Outcomes to Company Profit Webinar

Thursday, 11 April 2024 2:30pm - 4:00pm AEST

Online

You’re earning good money but working really hard for it. Uncover how to change this, explode your growth, and continue to love what you do.

What comes to mind when you hear the word profit? Pending on your role where you work this simple word can elicit many a different emotions and often is thought to come at the “expense” of an ethical cost. This webinar aims to showcase that without profit you have no progress. No progress in career, company, industry which cycles back to poor delivery of services based on purely a low attraction of investment. Profit is something that often gets a bad rep due to “bad” business owners making poor decisions on operations that leads to unethical practices. This is usually due to a suboptimal understanding of what truly drives an Allied Health business. 

What this webinar aims to teach you is that the only real way to create a good profitable and ethical business is to actually deliver great clinical outcomes through a deeper understanding of physiology and a basic understanding of psychology. Further still, it will take you through an objective way on how to measure performance in these areas and how to ensure progression in your career. As with all things the more value you can give the more likely value will be returned to you, no matter your role. 

Presented by Tobias Atkins, AES, AEP

Earning More Without Adding Extra Sessions Webinar

Wednesday, 3 April 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm AEDT

Online

You’re earning good money but working really hard for it. Uncover how to change this, explode your growth, and continue to love what you do.

Your business is doing just fine. But you don’t want “just fine”. You rather blow up your income and have more fun. In this session, you’ll uncover the shifts required for you to earn far more – and without adding extra sessions to your calendar.
Specifically, you’ll discover:
1. How to price your sessions and packages so that you can successfully run ads and get in front of people who are excited to work with you.
2. How to stop being visibly invisible. You’re showing up and putting yourself out there, but speaking to everyone is stopping you from calling in your ideal clients, who can pay you what you want to charge. Here you’ll uncover how to solve this so you can shift from $10K to $20K+ months with ease.
3. How to take action that feels good and gets insane results for both you and your clients. You’ll see the proven process that allows you to earn the money you’re here to make, leaving you feeling energized, vibrant, and ready for continued business and personal growth.

Presented by Alexandra Whitehead

Industry Presented Webinar | Follow Your Gut

On demand

Online

Addressing Factors that Hinder and Support Athlete Gut Health      

1 CEC

Sponsored by: Gatorade Sports Science Institute

Course Description 

The presentation is focused on how diet, exercise, and stress can impact the gut microbiota and gut health. We will also review some of the evidence regarding the gut microbiota of athletes and the effectiveness of probiotics in the prevention/treatment of GI symptoms, illness, and stress/anxiety. 

Learning objectives 

After participation, the attendee should be able to: 

  • Explain how the microbiota is impacted by nutrition, exercise and stress, 
  • Explain how the microbiota plays a supporting role in immune health, 
  • Explain how performance is impacted by poor gut health, and 
  • Identify ways athletes can support and improve gut health. 

Takeaways 

Participants will be able to use the following takeaways in their daily work: 

  • Understand how dietary recommendations may impact gut health. 
  • Understand how stress and exercise may impact the gut microbiota. 

Presented by Kris Osterberg, Ph.D., R.D., CSSD, FACSM