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2006 Montreal Program
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2003 Program
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The Center for Performance Enhancement and Applied Research Presents The 22nd Annual Conference on Counseling Athletes We live in a society obsessed with, and in important ways influenced by, sports. The implication for gays and lesbians is clear. Our full acceptance by the wider society depends in part on our making inroads into what until now has been one of the last acceptable bastions of homophobia, sports. We need your help to develop positive role models and heroes. “We want to give athletes an opportunity to share their experiences. Our goals are twofold: One, create a community of gay athletes who can communicate with each other regularly. Two, help cultivate an environment in sports in which athletes are accepted and respected without regard to their sexual orientation. In the process, we help to create positive role models for the society at large.” - O. Mac Chinsomboon, GLAF Executive Director See online video from past events -- Very
Empowering! “LETS PLAY” Life Education through Sport: Promoting Life Skills and Academics in Youth This year, the conference planning committee is most interested in presentations that are experiential in nature and that would provide participants with tools and strategies that they can use at their home sites. Workshops on topics like youth sport education, mentor training, program evaluation, life skills acquisition, and program implementation and collaboration would be most welcome. The GLAF Session Train-the-trainer session: Using videos clips and talking points on the benefits of inclusion and support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered athletes, and how these lessons can also be applied to greater overall diversity. Video clips will include Olympians, an ex Major League Baseball player, a former city Mayor, and others that have achieved athletic greatness. This is a preliminary showing of a beta-session that GLAF is developing and we encourage attendees to provide constructive and hands-on input towards the final product. This training session has been previously used at a Northeastern University in 2005 at the Sport in Society conference for middle school and high school students on social justice and human rights. At this session, the audience of students were randomly assigned the discussion session and they were told to imagine instead of using “gay or lesbian” replace the words with “Hispanic” or “African-American” or “Indian” or “Poor”, etc. They got it! We are working to fine tune the feedback. See this press release to see what the former presentation was like and how it was received: http://glaf.org/press/press_051005.html
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