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HOCKEY NEW ZEALAND-ASSOCIATION NEWS 17/11
  AN UPDATE FOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONS This weeks’ Association Newsletter includes information around Coach Development Opportunities as well as an update on the opening weekend of the Sentinel Homes Premier Hockey League. Please make sure to let matthew.williams@hockeynz.co.nz if anyone from your Association is not receiving our fortnightly Association News Correspondence.    COACH DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES Please find below the current coach development opportunities for you to share with your coaching community. CONNECTING COACHES CONFERENCE  Registrations are now open for the online Connecting Coaches Conference on the 27th and 28th of November 2020.Otago Academy of Sport will be leading the two-day online conference with a focus on supporting coaches to build their capacity to be adaptable. There will be over 20 guest speakers including Dame Noeline Taurua, Emma Humphries, Jamie Joseph, Heath Mills and many more. The conference is open to everyone, worldwide, at a cost of NZD$99. All presentations will be recorded and available to all registered coaches register for an entire year. Please click here for more information CLICK HERE FOR THE CONNECTING COACHES FLYER TO SHARE  NEW SPORT NZ COACHING PROGRAMME: COACHING FOR IMPACT  Sport NZ has launched a brand new initiative, Coaching For Impact. This initiative is aimed at coaches working with secondary school age players. There will be posts on the Hockey NZ Facebook page in the coming weeks to remind coaches to apply and a flyer you can download on the link below to assist with sharing this with your coaches. Applications for the programme close on Monday 30th November at 5pm. CLICK HERE FOR THE COACHING FOR IMPACT FLYER TO SHARE  iCOACH KIDS FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE  The iCoachKids Movement was formed to harness the motivation, interest and momentum for the development of a Global Sport System that provides a safe a developmentally appropriate environment for each and every child. In December iCoachKids will be holding their 4th Annual International Conference. This will be a FREE online event. The conference will include an impressive list of sports leaders from across the world. Please click on the link below to access information about registrations, links to the iCoachKids website, social media and the full programme, to share with your hockey community. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION  DANE LETT ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT Dane Lett, Black Sticks hockey player and Head of Hockey at Wellington Hockey, believes we are doing our youth and our future sporting potential a disservice by focusing on selection at an early age. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY  OPENING ROUNDS OF SENTINEL HOMES PREMIER HOCKEY LEAGUE A SMASHING SUCCESS  The first three rounds of the Sentinel Homes Premier Hockey League are in the books in the women’s competition. This Thursday will see the men hit the turf to contest their three rounds. It was awesome to see such a large number of our community watching the streams on the sky sport next platform. Could I please request that we continue to push this through your social media channels throughout the competition as we aim to get our community engaged with this high-level competition. CLICK HERE FOR DAY ONE MATCH REPORTS CLICK HERE FOR DAY TWO MATCH REPORTS CLICK HERE FOR DAY THREE MATCH REPORTS CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS AND LOGOS  LOTTERY COVID-19 COMMUNITY WELLBEING FUND A new $40 million lottery fund has been established to focus on community and social initiatives in the wake of COVID-19. This fund opened on 28 October 2020. Lottery COVID-19 Community Wellbeing Fund will provide one-off grants for community or social initiatives that increase the strength and resilience of communities that are responding to the impacts of COVID-19. This Fund will support hapū, iwi and community organisations that have lost funding or have an increased demand on their services due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and community or social initiatives that strengthen community resilience and respond to the impacts of COVID-19. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE  HALBERG TRUST DIVERSITY & INCLUSION TRAINING The Halberg Trust are responding to an increase of requests from the sporting community around Diversity and Inclusion Training by launching “an Introduction to Inclusion and Adapted Physical Activity Training” free of charge on zoom every Monday at 10am during November. It is a short 1 hour introductory session. This Halberg Inclusion Training programme teaches the core fundamentals of how to modify physical activities. If you are working with a group of people in a sport, recreation or play setting and wondering how you can include all of your group in a more effective way this training is for you. This course can: give you more confidence in working with those with impairments provide ideas when working with disabled people empower you to make changes that will enhance the experience for your group ensure everyone can be included demonstrate how to remove barriers to participation shape positive attitudes provide impetus to reach out to Halberg for more information TO REGISTER FOR A SESSION CLICK HERE Alternatively, if your Association has enough interest as a group collectively, you can organise a stand-alone session. If you are interested in our own session please contact John Sigurdsson johns@halberg.co.nz to arrange. Feel free to spread the word, this training is for coaches, volunteers, administrators and game development personnel or anyone working with sport, play and recreation. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION  FOLLOW US ON LINKEDIN Keep up with the latest insights, business information and organisational developments from Hockey New Zealand, by following us on LinkedIn. Read our latest news, articles, white papers and opinion pieces, view video’s, presentations and other content on how we grow and develop the game, both on and off the turf. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS OUR LINKEDIN PAGE  HOCKEY NEW ZEALAND GALLERIES Please let your community know that we are starting to put a lot of the 2020 Community Hockey images on our website now. These can be downloaded by any of the participants for non-commercial use. CLICK HERE FOR THE GALLERIES  Upcoming Key Dates High Performance Premier Hockey League 19-22 November: Men rounds 1-3 25-29 November: Women rounds 4-6 and final 2-6 December: Men rounds 4-6 and final CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE FULL DRAW ON THE PREMIER HOCKEY LEAGUE WEBSITE  Current Situations Vacant VACANCIES    Hockey New Zealand 14, Normanby Road 1024 Auckland support@hockeynz.co.nz      This email was sent to manager@nelsonhockey.org.nz You received this email because you are registered with Hockey New Zealand Unsubscribe here  © 2019 Hockey New Zealand  Title |
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