The mission at Coaches across Continents is to use our soccer education programs is to create leaders in developing regions. We achieve this by providing teacher/coach and child education to existing organizations in developing communities. Our expertise is to educate educators, a "Cascade Model" whereby "Coaches Coach Coaches to Educate Children". Our curriculum provides children and local coaches the opportunities to experience new ideas and help make new choices.
Coaches across Continents has adopted an innovative curriculum development program based upon our own, "From Chance to Choice" philosophy first identified and described by Dr. Judith Gates, a member of our Coach Advisory Board.
We believe that young people throughout the world go through similar stages of development.
1. Chance of birth – the inheritance of country, culture, religion, family norms and traditions determine life style.
2. Conformity of childhood – unquestioning acceptance, fitting in to inherited culture, unawareness of alternatives, lead to cultural acquiescence.
3. Conflict of adolescence – ritual rebellion, self assertion, questioning of the taken for granted contribute to the emerging individual.
4. Certainty of post-adolescence – need for peer approval, for similarity, for acceptance, for the avoidance of doubt, leads to culturally created complacency.
5. Contradictions – awareness of ambiguities, recognition of complexity, acceptance that no one answer is sufficient, deepen uncertainty and doubt supporting rejection of that which was previously taken for granted.
6. Challenge – widening horizons, gaining insights, glimpsing alternative ways of thinking, considering options, imagining a different future, open up previously unrecognized possibilities for new ways of living.
7. Choice – growing in confidence, taking personal responsibility, owning your life, creating oneself, choosing a future, empower and liberate from the constraints of the past.
"The Coaches across Continents unique ‘From Chance to Choice’ curriculum develops leadership and decision making skills through the medium of coaching in soccer skills. The ‘From Chance to Choice’ curriculum focuses upon the principles of moving from the chance and conformity of an unquestioned lifestyle, through deepening insight, to the recognition of potential choices. Personal life skills are required to make and act upon these choices. Therefore priority is given to the development of life skills such as collaboration, involving empathy, sharing, communication and cooperation; problem solving, involving analysis, clarification, consideration of alternatives and decision making; plus leadership skills, involving community and contextual awareness, shared visioning, team learning and collective action. Coaching in specific soccer skills, such as dribbling, trapping the ball, heading etc. is the subject content of the curriculum. Coaches across Continents experiential approach aims to combine the development of these soccer skills with the appropriate life skills as outlined above
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