October 8, 2024 (3:00 PM - 4:30 PM)
Sport is a unique avenue for learning, identity building, and enhancing individuals' lives. When used intentionally, practitioners and coaches can support young people to develop an identity rooted in doing the right thing, shifting the focus from becoming "better athletes" to becoming "better people." By fostering the values of empathy, leadership, teamwork, and agency, they particularly impact children and youth, promoting the principles of good citizenship and supporting them to develop their own social entrepreneurial ventures. Together, we will leverage Ashoka’s Dream it. Do it. methodology to equip coaches and practitioners with the skills and mindset they need to foster the social entrepreneurial potential of youth to create positive change.
This workshop is designed to enable coaches and practitioners to discover their power as changemakers and to inspire their community of players to do the same. Ashoka will additionally leverage the insights and case studies from Ashoka’s Sport for Changemaking Insights Report to provide an action-oriented workshop on how to build environments – on and off the pitch – that support young people in their changemaker development.
**Objectives:**
- **Introduce Key Social Entrepreneurship Principles**\: Present the core principles of social entrepreneurship and social innovation,
- **Leverage the Changemaker Education 3**\-**I approach**, supporting participating coaches and practitioners on how to internalize, integrate, and implement a changemaking culture in their organization that cultivates the growth of young changemakers
- **Promote Youth Changemaking**\: Using [Ashoka’s Impact Framework](https://www.ashoka.org/en-us/story/rethinking-impact-spectrum#:\~:text=Four%20Levels%20of%20Impact%201%201.%20Direct%20Service,a%20problem.%20...%204%204.%20Framework%20Change%20), build an understanding of how sport can create an environment conducive to youth changemaking, equipping them with the tools needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
- **Inspire Coaches and Practitioners**\: Empower coaches and practitioners in the YSH network with the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed to cultivate a culture of changemaking in their training environments
- **Facilitate Workshops**\: Provide individual and collective workshop spaces for practitioners to discuss and ideate on how they can leverage their roles to support youth to be social entrepreneurs, sparking new ideas and potential feedback
Aminata Diakhate ·