for swim schools and swim teachers

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

To increase child safety and wellbeing in swim lessons by helping swim schools and swim teachers implement trauma-informed best practices.  CPD solutions align with the  National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, drawn from the work by the Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and endorsed by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in 2018.

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White Paper – Force and Trauma in Swim Lessons

Prepared to support National and International Swim Codes of Practice

“The use of force in swim lessons reflects deficits in the teacher’s skills” –  Jon Baylin: Australian Childhood Foundation International Childhood Trauma Conference, Melbourne, 2016 (1)

(1) Daniel A. Hughes, PhD; Jonathan Baylin, PhD: Brain-Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment (2012)