Interesting for you if you are looking for resources on ADHD and how to control it through sports, particularly swimming, and mindfulness, especially for adolescents with ADHD and for sports instructors and coaches.
Resources created:
– A pilot programme to develop the skills of adolescents with ADHD through swimming and mindfulness
– A Guidebook about the benefits of swimming and mindfulness for adolescents with ADHD
Project sheet
“Swim to Live 5” is a 2-year Erasmus Plus small-scale project in the field of sport funded by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. The project is coordinated by ŠD RIBA (Slovenia) and the other partners are Euphoria Net (Italy), Swimming Club Asterias (Greece), Asociatia Clubul Sportiv Kory Francisc (Romania).
PROJECT OBJETIVES
The project aims to help adolescents with ADHD (18- 25 years old) by using swimming, mindfulness and time structuring to control their symptoms and increase their functioning, self-worth, and well-being. At the same time, the project aims to increase the knowledge and skills of sports instructors, coaches and teachers, sports organizations, etc. on how to help understand and regulate ADHD through sports exercise and other activities and tools, such as mindfulness and time structuring.
AVAILABLE RESULTS
As part of the project, we developed:
– A Pilot Programme: a 24-week lesson programme including various activities, methods, and techniques to help and develop the skills of adolescents with ADHD through sports, especially swimming workouts, and different mindfulness practices.
– A Guidebook about the benefits of swimming and mindfulness for adolescents with ADHD for instructors, coaches and young swimmers, combining scientific insights and practical coaching tools to improve focus, self-regulation, and well-being, with practical guidelines about ADHD and general sport well-being, videos, exercises and tips, etc.
The Guidebook is tailored to be accessible also to visually impaired people and is available online in English, Italian, Greek, Slovenian, and Romanian or downloadable in PDF format.
Funded by the Europan Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union of the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union not EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Project n° 101133367