BCA Sets the Date for Girls Fast Forward Mega Camp

Sun Peaks Resort will once again host the Girls Fast Forward (GFF) Mega Camp this coming April 17-20. BC Alpine (@bcalpine) says an all-star cast of coaches and athletes will gather for three packed days of on-snow ski training, strength and conditioning training, connection, a female health workshops, and athlete panels.

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AWiS Rewind: A Recap of Monday Night’s Webinar

Part 2 of “The Coaching Life: Surviving or Thriving?” with Heather Cribbin delved deep into the WHY behind well-being.

✏️ Setting Boundaries: Explore the power of personal boundaries—saying No, seeking help, and fostering connections across physical, social, and emotional realms. Prioritize yourself to better serve others.

✏️ Values & Well-being: Uncover the significance of knowing your values—the principles impacting your behaviour and guiding how you live and work.

✏️ What Fuels You?: Insights from December’s questionnaire reveal the passion coaches and athletes share for the sport, personal connections, and daily wins.

✏️ The Wheel of Life: Navigating the Human Function Curve and breaking free from the Cycle of Burnout. Rediscover balance and purpose in your coaching journey.

✏️ Time Management: Understand that energy is renewable, but time is not. Explore how effective energy management acts as a crucial boundary.

The key takeaway? Well-being for coaches and athletes revolves around successfully implementing boundaries. Let’s prioritize ourselves, foster connections, and thrive together!

Get Tools to Set Boundaries in Ski Coaching

Join us for Part 2 of our AWiS webinar series, “The Coaching Life: Surviving or Thriving?” on Jan 22. This session will focus on « Setting Boundaries & Other Strategies to Support Well-being. » 

Speaker, Heather Cribbin will share specific tools to help you set boundaries as an alpine ski racing coach. She’ll also explore trending well-being concepts, the Wheel of Life, coach burnout, the role of boundaries, values, time management, and emotional intelligence. Don’t miss this coaching wisdom! 

Use this link to register and get ACA credits: 

https://snowreg.com/#!/events/alpine-women-in-sport-part-2-webinar-series-the-coaching-life-surviving-or-thriving-jan-22-2023

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POSTPONED – Coaching Athletes Back to Snow

This webinar will give alpine coaches tips and resources on how to promote healthy habits and help their athletes prevent injuries and, if injured, get back on snow stronger.

Please check back for a revised date and more details on this webinar.

AWiS Ready to Launch 2023/24 Webinar Series

On December 11, AWiS will launch its 2023/24 webinar series, “The Coaching Life: Surviving or Thriving?” Mental Performance Coach, Heather Cribbin will be the guide for the series, helping us engage our coaching community and lay the groundwork for open and mindful exchanges, starting with “Connection, Community, and Coaching: A Conversation with Heather Cribbin.”

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The Coaching Life: Surviving or Thriving? – Part 2

“Setting Boundaries and Other Strategies to Enhance Well-being”

The concept and impact of well-being may be generalized, but the experience of what creates it will be profoundly personal. What is well-being, how do we notice when we don’t have it, and how can we cultivate it for ourselves? The ability to resource oneself, that it, find energy to persist, is essential in an industry that is built on a seasonal model that requires a great deal from its coaches. Intentionally choosing a mindset that fosters optimism can offset the stresses of a demanding environment. And that begins with setting boundaries—think time management, email and general communications, meetings, and more.

Returning speaker and Mental Performance Coach, Heather Cribbin, will share tools to help you set boundaries. She’ll also delve into the following topics:

• What is well-being, why is the term trending, and what does it mean for you?
• The Wheel of Life as an indicator of well-being. (Have a pencil and paper handy)
• What is the impact if well-being is missing? Can ski coaches have “burnout”?
• Is burnout the opposite of well-being?
• How do boundaries contribute to or protect your well-being?
• What happens when boundaries are missing/crossed?
• Values as a way of identifying and holding boundaries, and supporting well-being
• How can we see time as a boundary and not a commodity?
• Emotional intelligence as a tool for conversations to express/hold boundaries

If you are a coach, please use the following link to register for the session:

https://snowreg.com/#!/events/alpine-women-in-sport-part-2-webinar-series-the-coaching-life-surviving-or-thriving-jan-22-2023

And remember, you can earn ACA education credits when you register and attend our AWiS webinars.

Missed our previous webinars? See which topics we covered here.

About Heather Cribbin

Heather believes everyone is capable of high performance, in any arena, without sacrificing peace of mind.  Using her knowledge of neuroscience, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence, she coaches for mental toughness to uncover and enhance grit, resilience, and confidence.

Heather has participated in, parented, and coached high-performance athletics for many years.  She competed at a high level in rowing and in triathlon and enjoys skiing, tennis, biking, and hiking.  Earning her Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) from the Coach Training Institute (CTI), and a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) accreditation from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) helped Heather to connect her passion for supporting clients with her previous degrees in Physical and Health Education, and Social Work.

Heather has coached high-performers on the Canada Snowboard Team, athletes at the NCAA college level, competitors at the World Cup, Europa cup, University Games, and Canada Games stages.  She supports executives at large organizations such as Dell and Microsoft as well as entrepreneurs.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Heather now calls Zurich, Switzerland, home.

Connect with her on LinkedIn or e-mail her at heather@heathercribbincoaching.com.

The Coaching Life: Surviving or Thriving? – Part 1

Join us for “Connection, Community, and Coaching: A Conversation with Heather Cribbin. This will be the first session in our 2023/24 webinar series, “The Coaching Life: Surviving or Thriving?”

Ski coaches, as much as any athlete, deserve to have someone on their team to support their high-performance objectives. It is a pressing need that Heather Cribbin has identified in the work that she does as a Mental Performance Coach. A longtime sport participant and mother to two former female alpine ski racers, she believes in the need to create safe spaces for coaches to express themselves, seek and find support, and acquire the tools to build resilience. Alpine Women in Sport (AWiS) was created to develop one of those community spaces and we’re thrilled that Heather will help us facilitate an ongoing conversation around coaching and mental health, beginning with this webinar.

As is the case for all AWiS webinars, coaches who register for and attend this session will receive ACA education credits.

To register for the webinar, please use the following link and enter your full name:

https://snowreg.com/#!/events/alpine-women-in-sport-conversation-with-heather-cribbin-dec-11-2023

Thank you in advance for joining the conversation on coaching and mental health!

Please note that this webinar is intended to provide a safe space for coaches to have an open and honest conversation. This session WILL NOT be recorded.

About Heather Cribbin

Heather believes everyone is capable of high performance, in any arena, without sacrificing peace of mind.  Using her knowledge of neuroscience, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence, she coaches for mental toughness to uncover and enhance grit, resilience, and confidence.

Heather has participated in, parented, and coached high-performance athletics for many years.  She competed at a high level in rowing and in triathlon and enjoys skiing, tennis, biking, and hiking.  Earning her Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) from the Coach Training Institute (CTI), and a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) accreditation from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) helped Heather to connect her passion for supporting clients with her previous degrees in Physical and Health Education, and Social Work.

Heather has coached high-performers on the Canada Snowboard Team, athletes at the NCAA college level, competitors at the World Cup, Europa cup, University Games, and Canada Games stages.  She supports executives at large organizations such as Dell and Microsoft as well as entrepreneurs.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Heather now calls Zurich, Switzerland, home.

Connect with her on LinkedIn or e-mail her at heather@heathercribbincoaching.com.