Next Event - 28th October - GameSpeed with Ruth Waghorn
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To create learning through practical coaching experiences.
Regional, single-topic sessions built on our learning model, where specialist coach mentors guide attendees in the learning process, as opposed to telling them. Those in the room contribute to the direction of learning, meaning the session blends toward what you actually need. You're not sat listening - you're shaping what gets covered.
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New sessions are added as they're confirmed region by region.
WORKSHOP TOPIC: Gamespeed - Building a coaching approach, not a drill library.
October 28th 2026 · 6:00 - 8:45pm · Hertfordshire Sports Village
Led by Ruth Waghorn, Physical Performance Coach, The FA
Start from the sport, not the drill library. Build a gamespeed coaching approach you can actually use.
£60 early bird
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This isn't a speed workshop in the traditional sense — it's a way of thinking about it.
In this workshop, Ruth will help us challenge you to think about what gamespeed is, and how it could fit within your athletes' training processes. As usual within our performance workshops, the focus is practical exploration.
Ruth Waghorn is a Physical Performance Coach at The FA, with nine seasons across England's women's pathway and senior teams, including the successful UEFA European Championship campaigns of 2022 and 2025.
Her route in wasn't conventional — personal training, a spell with British Sailing, then Speedworks, where she interned and later worked under founder Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo, a mentor she still credits today.
Alongside her FA role, Ruth works privately with footballers in a performance setting, and consults to sporting organisations and federations on education and performance related topics — using her skills and experience to develop the game.
Co-facilitated on the night by Dan Howells, this session aims to help you apply Ruth's thinking to your own sport as you go, not just watch it applied to someone else's.
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5:30pm - Arrive and network
6:00pm - Opening discussion — what is gamespeed?
6:30pm - A framework for gamespeed coaching and drill creation
7:00pm - Group practical — gamespeed across sport examples
8:30pm - Group reflections and personal action plan
8:45pm - Depart
WORKSHOP TOPIC: Data-Informed Program Design
December 9th · 6:00 - 8:45pm · High Performance Unit - Liverpool John Moores University
Led by Dan Howells, Collaborate Sports Founder
Collect testing data and use it to inform resistance-based programs contextualised as case studies
£60 early bird
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In this workshop, Dan will help you clarify what program design should actually be built around in terms of prioritisation, and challenge you to prescribe with intent, not habit.
This isn't a session about collecting more data or running more tests for their own sake. We'll avoid chasing numbers that don't change a decision, and avoid prescriptions that exist because "that's what we've always done” or “to cover all bases”.
Instead, we'll help you consider:
Where to actually start when deciding what your athletes’ training priorities should be
How to move from data to decisions quicker — what results are really telling you, and what they're not
What's genuinely worth prescribing — and what's just noise dressed up as programming
How to connect data, intent and prescription into one clear, outcome-led line
You'll work through it all live - collecting lower body strength and power data as a group, interpreting what it actually means, then applying that straight into program design tasks and case studies alongside your coaching peers.
With reflection and challenge blended into the session, you'll leave with a personal action plan and the clarity to know why you're prescribing what you're prescribing — not just what.
2.5 hours. One topic. Leave with a process for outcome-led program design, not just another data collection protocol.
Schedule
5:30pm – Arrive and network
6:00pm – Lower body strength and power data collection
6:45pm – Interpretation of results and setting the scene
7:00pm – Group practical — program design tasks and case studies
8:30pm – Group reflections and personal action plans
8:45pm – Depart
WORKSHOP TOPIC: Making Training Engaging and Enjoyable for Youth Athletes
January 13th 2027 · 6:00 - 8:45pm · Archers Performance Centre - Cardiff Metropolitan University
Led by Ben Pullen, Youth Athletic Development Specialist and founder of Young Athlete Training.
Use constraints and challenges to build movement skills and physical qualities in young athletes, with sessions they actually want to be part of.
The session will help S&C coaches, technical coaches, physios, teachers, and parents alike!
£60 early bird
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In this workshop, Ben will help you rethink how youth training sessions are built. He’ll challenge you to design with engagement and intent rather than by copying adult programming.
This isn’t a session about making a list of exercises. We’ll avoid warm-ups that exist because “that’s how it’s always done”, and challenges that only the most capable children in the group can complete.
Instead, we’ll help you consider:
- What the warm-up is actually for with young athletes, and why RAMP may not be the answer for an eight-year-old
- How to use constraints to develop athletic movement competency, so children learn to move well without endless cueing
- How to manipulate tasks to drive physical adaptation, building strength without ever needing a traditional squat or lunge
- The difference between coaching a movement skill and developing a physical quality, and how the two support each other in a youth session
- How to adapt one challenge so it works for every child in a mixed-ability group
You’ll work through it all live. You’ll discuss ideas in small groups, then see them come to life on the floor as Ben takes you through the games, challenges and constraints he uses with young athletes every week. Then you’ll explore your own versions alongside your coaching peers.
With reflection and challenge blended into the session, you’ll leave with a clear picture of what a youth session can look like, and the tools to make it engaging for every child in front of you.
Come ready for an active session in terms of doing and/or coaching! This will be one of the most practical sessions you’ll do.
2.5 hours. One topic. Leave with a process for designing engaging youth sessions that build real physical qualities, not just another list of games.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Arrive and network
6:00pm – Opening discussion: what is the warm-up actually for?
6:45pm – Group practical: constraints for movement competency
7:30pm – Group practical: manipulating tasks for physical adaptation
8:30pm – Group reflections and personal action plans
8:45pm – Depart
HOW YOU’LL LEARN
The 360 approach
We called it 360 because that's how we learn. The challenge goes in the middle. Every practitioner surrounds it, bringing their own perspective, their own experience, their own angle. Clarity only emerges when every perspective is in play.
The best decisions in high-performance sport rarely come from one person working alone
Collaborate 360 Performance Workshops bring every discipline into the same room, around the same challenge.