COURSES…
The SoulBall Courses have been intentionally created to offer an alternative way of seeing, understanding and experiencing coaching football and futsal—both in content and presentation.
The bitesize episodes that make up the courses bring together the ideas, experiences and practical approaches that have shaped SoulBall over the years, helping to empower coaches and lovers of the game through insight and revelation.
SoulBall’s aim is not to provide every answer. Rather, it is to encourage curiosity, help coaches observe more deeply, ask different questions and understand how environments directly influence learning.
All with the ultimate goal of empowering children of all ages through The Beautiful Game.
THE SOULBALL COACHING JOURNEY COURSE
The Course is built around three connected stages made up of engaging, bitesize episodes.
Each stage explores a different part of the coaching journey, while continually returning to the same central ideas:
- Play
- Experience
- Character
- Awareness
- Intelligence
- Freedom
- Responsibility
- Creativity
- Learning
THE SOULBALL COACHING JOURNEY
STAGE ONE
The Player
See Differently.
The journey begins with the person.
Stage One explores how players learn, how confidence grows, and how coaches can create environments where young people feel free to explore, make mistakes, solve problems and express themselves.
It asks us to consider the player not simply as someone learning football, but as a young person continually growing through their experiences of the game.
THE SOULBALL COACHING JOURNEY
STAGE TWO
The Game
Understand Differently.
Football constantly presents players with problems to solve.
Stage Two explores how players begin to see, understand and respond to the game around them.
Through ideas such as awareness, space, decision-making, relationships and small-number football, coaches are encouraged to consider how the game itself can become one of our greatest teachers.
THE SOULBALL COACHING JOURNEY
STAGE THREE
The Team
Create Differently.
As the game grows, relationships become increasingly important.
Stage Three explores how groups of players learn to function together.
Movement. Support. Transitions. Pressing. Width. Depth. Anticipation. Collective understanding.
It also looks more deeply at the coach’s role in shaping environments where these principles can emerge naturally through play.
MORE THAN LESSONS
The SoulBall Coaching Journey Course also includes practical resources designed to help coaches take the ideas from the course into their own environments.
These practical resources include support with:
- managing behaviour
- supporting players with attention and behavioural needs
- understanding age and stage
- designing games and conditions
- planning better sessions
- developing your own insightful questions as a coach
The aim is simple:
To help bridge the space between understanding an idea and applying it with real players, in real sessions.
COMING SOON
The SoulBall Coaching Journey is currently being prepared for release.
If you’d like to be among the first to hear when enrolment opens, you’re warmly invited to register your interest.