@b5consultancy
@b5consultancyTarget Group Range:
Learning Objectives:
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To reflect on behaviours, take responsibility for actions and aim for healthy relationships
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To understand external influences i.e. pornography, misogynistic themes, language and how football and the dressing room can influence young men.
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To be a leader in the conversation and not the follower adopting toxic cultures
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About This Programme:
With 20+ years experience in sports lawyer Matt Himsworth and a former player and performance coach Fraser Franks, B5 have seen and supported many footballer mistakes off-the-pitch. Sex and relationships are never far from the conversation relating to decisions, behaviours and consequences.
It focuses on taking responsibility for behaviour, from an empowering perspective – leading to a positive and healthy life.
This workshop prioritises safety and respectful behaviours, which have been popular amongst first team and academy football and wider sport.
B5 address crucial topics of sexual conduct, the impact of online media, and the influence of misogyny and traditional masculinity, particularly how that applies to young players with a profile. The session is interactive and engages in the challenges players may face in navigating relationships, image-sharing, and culture.
Players will gain a deeper understanding of how consent should be respected in all interactions, how media and pornography shapes perceptions of gender and relationships, and how to challenge harmful societal norms.
A phrase often used is ‘play the tape forward’. Would you make the same decision in an hour? In a week? In a year? In 10 years? What would your future-self make of the present decision? What could the potential consequences be?
Making a dangerous decision in the very temporary moment of a young player’s desire to impress or to fit in can have life changing consequences and we tell stories, from direct first-hand experience, of how that can play out and why players should always be weighing up the risk-benefit analysis.
B5 provide a non-judgmental space, we empathise with players and we talk ‘to’ them, not ‘at’ them. We want them to take full accountability and responsibility for their actions and use real world examples of situations that we have been involved in.
Note: B5 work in the women’s game and that work is headed up by former Crystal Palace player Leigh Nicol and former England rugby player Celia Quansah. Leigh is a survivor of intimate image abuse and has told her powerful story to men’s teams (academies and first teams). Leigh is available, on request, to deliver on this programme.
