Six Dream Together Master 5th batch students Gobinath Sivarajah, Rijki Kurniawan, John Monyo, Nicholas Chipeta, Ali Hussien, and David Hodgson participated in ‘Football 4 Peace’ – F4P training camp hosted by Football 4 Peace Korea and Korean Sharing Movement from August 9th to 12th 2018 at Seoul National University. The F4P is not only a sports skill and technical knowledge enhancement program but also a methodology session which teaches values-based sport coaching through the medium of football. F4P aims to promote positive values associated with good citizenship and focuses on promoting the values of equity, inclusion, trust, responsibility, and respect through football.
During the camp, the F4P International values-based coaching methodology was introduced by senior lecturers at the University of Brighton, the U.K. 50 volunteers from various universities and schools in Seoul took part in the training camp and were awarded certificates for their active participation. Especially, 50 children from various schools were invited and given some basic and fun activities to mingle with each other and resource persons. After each of the activities, the children were given opportunity to consider what they have learned from the wide range of activities associated with peace and how they would apply this concept or skill in a practical setting.
As a graduate student of sport management at Seoul National University, it was praiseworthy to participate in such training camp. They learned how an activity transforms to a value which helps them to promote mutual understanding in various communities and realized that sport increases the possibility to connect all community people together. Nicholas Chipeta said “The Football 4 Peace training camp provided an opportunity for me to recall the importance of values-based coaching. The training camp was the driving motivation in me to pay much attention to values-based coaching. I believe that this methodology has great power to make better individuals in the society”
