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The Making Aquatics a Terrific Experience (MATE) community workshop provides parents and carers, disability support staff, allied health professionals, personal trainers, exercise physios and the like with the information, skills and confidence required to encourage and facilitate physical activity, socialisation, communication, mobility and community engagement in an aquatic environment. It is not designed to teach you about swimming strokes.
AUSTSWIM strives to promote equality for safer aquatic participation in Australian communities. Workshops are held across Australia in regional and metropolitan areas to ensure that everyone, regardless of location or capabilities, has access to the benefits that the aquatic environment provides.
The MATE community workshop introduces a range of initiatives aimed at removing barriers to participation. This helps to work towards our vision of ensuring that people living with disabilities or medical conditions, their families and their carers are supported to participate in, contribute to and benefit from the same community activities as everyone else.
During this free workshop, you will learn pivotal water safety principles to help make aquatic activities safer for people who face barriers to access and inclusion. The MATE workshop offers:
- Engaging and interactive education
- Comprehensive and informative notes
- Real-life scenario examples and troubleshooting
- Simulation exercises – explaining what your body does in, on and around the water
- Aquatic activities to use in an inclusive setting
- Networking opportunities with like-minded people
Who can attend this workshop?
This workshop can be attended by anyone who works with, cares for, deals with or lives with someone who has a disability or medical condition, presenting them with barriers for visiting the pool or aquatic facility, including: