Aqua Ex Perspective: Influence, Effect, Impact

Perspective is personal; it shifts, warps, and changes as influences effect and impact on our views, beliefs, and approach.

This session delves into the evolving perspective on aqua, prompting delegates to reflect on its past, present and future trajectories.

We’re starting this conversation to drive innovation, encourage workforce involvement across the board, and gain a deeper understanding of the aqua sector potential in Australia.

Join the journey of exploration and perspective. 

FeedForward instead of Feedback

Step into the future with our session on FeedForward—an innovative approach that shifts focus from the past to the potential of what lies ahead. Join us in exploring how FeedForward empowers individuals to envision a positive future, leaving behind past setbacks. Discover the art of offering constructive ideas for greater success, creating a productive environment where the emphasis is on guiding individuals to be right rather than proving them wrong.

Inclusion, intersectionality, and the individual

Our collective purpose is to support the people in our communities to improve their health and wellbeing through exercising in water, however have you ever looked at your participants and wondered about who ISN’T there and maybe why?  

This session starts with exploring our own identities that are formed through our lived, loved, laboured and learned experiences and further shaped by our core values.  Through this lens we will explore how we might better support those groups that we are used to seeing represented in the pool (such as older adults), right through to some of the challenges faced at the less well represented end of the spectrum (such as members of the LGBTQI+ community).  

Leave with a greater sense of self, and a new lens through which to explore the practical challenges of making sure no one is left behind.

Aqua Think Tank

Contribute your views and opinions as we tackle three key topics of the aqua ecosystem:

- the diminishing workforce

- marketing strategies to broaden appeal, and

- accessible educational and training opportunities for aqua professionals

Each key topic will feature a brief overview and group discussions facilitated by Department of Management and Marketing Swinburne University of Technology Dr Carleigh Yeomans and Dr Paul Bowell. Key takeaways will be collected and shared to consolidate insights.

We are looking for visionary leaders with the drive to contribute to solutions in the aqua sector. Help us gather information and build a diverse and inclusive workforce to help shape future for aqua exercise.