Professional sport encompasses so many individual sports, each with their own cycles, seasons, and busier periods. It can be difficult to pick a time to host a mental health conference that represents the whole industry, bringing all support staff and practitioners together under one roof.
Sporting Chance Annual Summit 2024: You're invited.
After last year's success, we’re hosting our next Sporting Chance Annual Summit on 10th October 2024. Why?
This date marks World Mental Health Day.
As the charity enters its 25th year of providing mental health and addiction support to professional athletes, we wanted to host our event in line with a day that globally shares our mission as a charity.
If you’re joining us on the day, we’re delighted to be welcoming you to Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham, on a day that coincides with football’s international break and the off-season for numerous other sports we work with.
After a compelling Olympic Games, and what I’m sure will be an equally absorbing Paralympic Games, we’re delighted to have both Nile Wilson (former Olympic gymnast) and
(former Olympic cyclist and jockey) lead our athlete panel to discuss the landscape for mental health and the highs and lows of the Olympic journey.
Like last year, we’ve put together a mixed programme of speakers under an overarching theme – this year it’s ‘applying best practice’. We’ve set our speakers (and indeed our delegates on the day) the challenge of sharing interventions and practical implications of the way we talk about, and act around, mental health. This encompasses athletes, support staff, individual clubs, leagues, governing bodies, and the wider ecosystem of professional sport.
If you haven’t secured your ticket yet and want to join us, you can still get your ticket here.
Not a typically ‘academic’ conference, the summit has been created for anyone considering or already working in professional sport who want to make a difference. If you’ve reflected on the importance of athlete mental health this year, we have a day designed just for you - a full day of expert speakers and an invaluable opportunity to network with those interested in the mental health agenda in professional sport.
Applying Best Practice
Expert speakers will cover topics including:
Barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking behaviours in high-performance contexts
Elite coach wellbeing and burnout
Effects of psychological stress on transitions, recovery, and performance
Many thanks for reading and we hope you can join us on the 10th of October.
Alex Mills
Head of Non-Clinical Services
Sporting Chance
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