CR Journal Jess Naylor

Can 2020 teach us anything about sport?

2020 has challenged us in pretty much every way possible. Sporting clubs at all levels and pay grades have most definitely not been immune to this. But now, as the year rushes to its end, it’s worth looking back at everything that has happened and seeing what we can actually learn.
CR Journal Club Respect

Club Respect delivering workshops around Australia

For clubs wanting to draw β€˜a line in the sand’ in their club culture and maintain an environment of respect, we now offer our signature Club Respect workshops. You can join the cohort of sports clubs, associations, leagues and local councils who are making significant cultural changes at their clubs that are creating safe, kind and fair environments.
Podcast: Smart Plays

Time-out! Basketball’s response to bad behaviour

It's more than that, it's deeper than that. We need to actually be addressing it as it's happening. It's just getting people to just recognise that the behaviour is not appropriate and that you wouldn't conduct yourself that way in a bank or in a supermarket.
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Workshops

Club Respect is a national program that delivers strong practical guidance for sports clubs to build and maintain a deep culture of respect. Our workshops focus on how to build a culture of respect, determining values, knowing the right actions to take and how to deal with issues.
CR Journal Julia Walsh & Fraser Carson for The Conversation

More money may be pouring into women’s sport, but there’s still a dearth of female coaches

Participation in women’s sport has grown exponentially in recent years. There are 80,000 more females playing Australian rules football in 2017; females now account forΒ 30% of all participants. And there are now 1,690 dedicated female teams – an increase of 76% on 2017 numbers.
Club vox pops Riddells Creek Tennis Club

β€œHow has your club culture been impacted by COVID?” – Riddells Creek Tennis Club

People have stayed hopeful and connected and have continued to contribute to the committee and do non-tennis playing tasks that keep the club operating, even though there has been little to no actual tennis played.
Club vox pops Western Districts Youth Club

“How do you build team culture at your club?” – Western Districts Youth Club

This allows our community to set their own version of β€œwinning” that is relevant to them, be it at a competitive event or one of our youngest members jumping with 2 feet off a box for the first time ever.
Club vox pops Helen Politis

“How do you build team culture at your club?” – Coburg Little Athletics Centre

This is how we practice respect at the Coburg Little Athletics Centre and hope our standards reflect the respectful behaviours we would like our children and parents to demonstrate beyond the sports field.