Since 2024, Welcoming Clubs has delivered over 100 workshops and learning experiences across Australia. With a focus on in-person experiences, we have worked with volunteers, community sports clubs and recreation organisations, coaches, officials, sporting administrators, state and national sporting bodies, cultural institutions and workplaces.
Our training offerings take a systems approach, supporting organisations to examine how, what we think, what we do and how our systems work, shape participation, access and belonging.
We believe meaningful change is rarely achieved through a single workshop. Instead, our learning pathways bring together a suite of complementary learning experiences that build awareness, develop practical skills and support long-term organisational and cultural change.
Our foundational workshop helps participants explore how their experiences and everyday interactions shape inclusive environments, and the important role they play in creating belonging.
Equip coaches with a person-centred approach and practical strategies to adapt sessions for participants of all abilities. Coaches reflect on their own perspectives while building practical skills they can apply across any sport.
An interactive, scenario-based workshop that equips your club community with practical strategies to respond to and prevent racism and discrimination, building confidence to take effective action and create safer, more inclusive sporting environments.
A practical coaching workshop that explores how young people’s brains develop, learn and respond to stress. Coaches gain strategies to create environments where young people feel safe, connected and supported to thrive both on and off the field.
This workshop helps coaches, volunteers and sporting organisations understand what helps girls engage with and stay in sport. Explore practical, evidence-informed approaches to creating environments where girls feel they belong and can thrive.
Inclusive coaching starts with self-awareness. This workshop helps coaches understand how bias can shape their decisions and sporting environments, building practical awareness to create spaces where all young people feel safe, valued and able to thrive.
This workshop helps facilities and organisations understand how culture, language, disability, gender, migration experiences and previous access to water can shape participation, safety and belonging.
Developed in partnership with the Aqua English Project the training shares practical learning from community programs and the Inclusion Guidelines for Public Aquatic Facilities, exploring how to be prepared for changing demographics and ensure aquatic environments, programs and practices are welcoming, accessible and safe for increasingly diverse communities.
Coming soon
This training explores how an intersectional approach can strengthen inclusion across sport and recreation. Participants consider how different aspects of identity, experience and circumstance intersect to shape access, participation and belonging, and what this means for inclusive practice.
This training supports clubs and organisations move beyond single-issue approaches to inclusion and develop practices that are more responsive, equitable and prepared for changing community demographics.
Coming soon
Welcoming Australia exists to cultivate a culture of welcome and create a future where people of all backgrounds have equal opportunity to belong contribute and thrive
Welcoming Clubs is an initiative of Welcoming Australia, proudly supported by the Scanlon Foundation.
Our work is conducted on the stolen lands and waters of First Nations representing hundreds of clans and language groups. We acknowledge that our lives have benefitted from theft and dispossession and that we have a responsibility to support the efforts of Indigenous peoples as they work towards self-determination, sovereignty and land back. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
