Weekly Club Update 28-7-2022

Telephone: 0467 475 263 Postal Address: PO Box 49, San Remo, VIC, 3925 Web: www.woolamaibeach.org.au Email: secretary@woolamaibeach.asn.au

Weekly Club Update - 28-7-2022

Summary:

2022 LSV Club Conference
Bronze Camp/SRC Course Dates & Registration NOW OPEN!
LSV Courses this weekend!
Surf boat storage
2022 Youth Symposium – Saturday, 27 August 2022
SLSA Women’s Mentoring Program 4 - 2022 Program
LSV News

2022 LSV Club Conference

Life Saving Victoria (LSV) is thrilled to announce the annual Club Conference is returning to face-to-face this year.

Mark your calendars for Saturday 17 September and Sunday 18 September, when we host a fantastic program of guest speakers and workshops to help clubs prepare for season 2022-23.

Volunteers will be presented with an array of topical and essential information, with content focused on the coming year.

This event provides the opportunity for LSV to demonstrate new resources that are available to clubs, as well as a fantastic occasion for members to come together with other volunteers from around the state.

Woolamai is looking to send a group of eager people to go and learn this information and come back with a variety of knowledge that they can then apply and bring back to the club.

This is a great opportunity for anyone who is currently in a leadership position or wishes to be one in the future as it gives a beneficial understanding of what’s happening at LSV and a good kickstart for the season ahead.

The draft program can be found HERE

If you’re interested in going, please fill out the expression of interest HERE and someone will be in contact with you.

In order for the club to make a booking in time, the EOI will close Friday 2nd September

Any questions please get in contact with Brendan Smart - 0433 793 097

Facebook event - click HERE

More information from the LSV circular - click HERE

Training Update

New Awards 2022/23 Season

The Training Team are working hard behind the scenes in creating the 2022/23 training calendar.

We are very hopeful to be returning back to normal, meaning no more limits on courses and seeing course such as ART, First Aid and SMAR being run once again.

To keep up to date with what courses Woolamai will deliver this year, visit the training calendar on the website https://www.woolamaibeach.org.au/training-calendar

The training team will be advertising for a combined Advanced Resuscitation Technique and First Aid course in September. Registrations for the course will be made available in a few weeks time.

Skills Maintenance Weekend

Skills maintenance is intended to ensure all patrolling lifesavers remain proficient in their skills and display the appropriate knowledge and understanding of the patrol award criteria. All active Lifesavers are required to complete a skills maintenance assessment to show currency in the life saving award/s they hold and wish to retain.

If you completed your SRC qualification last season but is yet 15 years old to do the Bronze Medallion qualification, you will need to attend one of the Skills Maintenance days to renew your SRC qualification for another year.

Details on Skills Maintenance Weekend will be announced in September. These details will include:

How to book
What you need to do on the day
What you need to bring

We are looking forward to this season and can’t wait to see everyone!

Terry Aslanidis - Chief Instructor
E: training@woolamaibeach.asn.au

LSV Courses

There are spaces on various courses this weekend, which have recently opened up. All sessions will run out of the State office and enrolments can be made at https://mt.lsv.com.au/courses/.

ARTFA - Sat 8am-5pm
CPR - Sat 8am-10am
SSV - Sat 8am-12pm
IRBD - Sat and Sun 8am-5pm
CPR - Sat 1pm-3pm
ARTFA - Sun 8am-5pm
SSV - Sun 1pm-3pm

Surf boat storage

We are looking for somewhere hopefully on the Island to store the best of our surf boats as the Club will be keeping it.

We hope to offer some rowing experiences to our members in the coming season.

If anyone can help or knows a place where it can be stored please contact Stafford on 0435 549 401

2022 Youth Symposium – Saturday, 27 August 2022

The LSVj Advisory Committee is delighted to announce that the 2022 Youth Symposium is returning in 2022 and will be delivered in person on Saturday, 27 August at Life Saving Victoria, Port Melbourne.

The Symposium will bring together youth members from across Victoria for a day of connection, fun, and empowerment through delivery of keynote speakers, leadership development activities and a platform to discuss the big issues facing our youth members.

The day promises to enrich, challenge, and facilitate our leaders of tomorrow with valuable leadership and communications skills. The jam-packed program also features keynote speakers from sport, leadership development and our lifesaving role models

Event Date: Saturday, 27 August 2022 / 9:30am - 4:00pm (Arrival from 9:15am)

Location: Life Saving Victoria, 200 The Boulevard Port Melbourne, 3207

Registration: Click HERE *This is a free event for all youth members aged 13-17 years.

Program Highlights:

Keynote Presentation from the Resilience Project
Keynote from Elite Athlete
Q&A with Lifesaving Leaders
Amazing Race

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE SUNDAY, 21 AUGUST 2022

More information can be found by clicking HERE

SLSA Women’s Mentoring Program 4 - 2022 Program

Applications are now open for the 2022 SLSA Women’s Mentoring Program.

We encourage Victoria female members to consider both Mentee and Mentor opportunities. This program promotes women within lifesaving, facilitating empowerment, support and leadership skills which can be applied to their paid roles inside and outside of SLS, volunteer activities and everyday life. The Program promotes ongoing supported pathways of personal and professional development as well as networking opportunities. Each mentee is selected based on:

demonstrated leadership abilities and
their potential and willingness to develop further in this area and
move into leadership positions within SLS

What are the individual benefits:

For the Mentee:

Build confidence, capability and interpersonal relationship skills
Supports them to take control of their own leadership capability and capacity by providing an opportunity to learn skills and behaviours and enhance their support networks
Life engagement of our women members, providing networking and ongoing support groups, increasing their sense of belonging.

For the Mentor:

Opportunity to be part of a legacy, give back and pass on personal and professional learnings, increasing their self-worth
Enhance interpersonal and professional skills increasing personal value to the organisation and reenergising their engagement with SLS • Strengthen coaching and leadership skills

What will the program entail?

The Mentee is responsible for establishing the path they would like to follow during the mentoring process. The main aim of mentoring is to help them determine their broad career and personal development goals and define a plan to help them achieve them.
The Mentee is responsible for arranging meetings and setting the agenda. They need to take a proactive role in shaping the relationship with their mentor and put the time to best use.
Mentoring meetings can occur in many ways. Mentor and Mentee need to agree on frequency, meeting length and regularity of meeting. Mentoring meetings usually run for 1 – 2 hours, although this may vary. We recommend meeting every 4-6 weeks. Most of our matches are not in the same state, so your meetings will be done over the phone, FaceTime or Zoom. You might also like to stay in touch by text in between meetings.
We will have initial training for the Mentors and Mentees before you get started, and this will introduce you to the online platform from McCarthy Mentoring which will guide you through the Program and help you to understand the mentoring relationship.
There will also be workshops which SLSA will arrange every few months which you can attend (online) which will further develop your skills in a number of ways, both personally and professionally.
Most importantly, you will have an incredible support network of like-minded women at your fingertips to reach out to.

nominees must be at least 16 to apply

Nominations due 25th of September

For more information - click HERE