Specialist Adult Swimming Teacher Training

Become a Certified Confident Swimming Way Teacher

Become part of the Confident Swimming mission to help the millions of adults out there, who are still longing to enjoy and be safe in water, discover a new, empowering, and highly effective way of learning to swim

Register your interest in our 3-day intensive training and certification.
Develop your teaching practice through specialist training in:

The Confident Swimming Way: Principles, Philosophy and Core Developmental Pathway

Learn about our Core Development Pathway, developed and refined over 17 years of teaching beginning adults:

1) Foundation Stage →
2) Deep Water Confidence / Versatility Stage →
3) Stroke Mastery and Advanced Skills Pathway

How to Help Highly Sensitive, Nervous, or Fearful Adult Beginner Swimmers

How to gently, patiently, and appropriately assist highly sensitive adult learners / non-swimmers to develop confidence, trust, and empowerment—and not reinforce fear (specialist training in delivering our Foundation module).

Challenging Body Types—Adapting your Teaching for Dense Body Types

Discover our Body type classification system (the buoyancy ←→ density spectrum) and learn how to adapt your teaching methods and prioritise the learning outcomes for Dense body types (especially for people who are negatively buoyant, who often have very little success in conventional teaching settings). In addition, discovered the challenges that highly buoyant types might experience, and how to adapt.

Deep Water Confidence and Mastery

1) learn how to prepare, develop, and equip your adult learners to be safe, comfortable, relaxed, and fully in control in deep water (not just treading water or jumping in).

When they have developed the necessary range of skills and abilities in shallow water,

2) discover the best steps and techniques to gently reinforce confidence and successfully introduce learners to deep water for their first ever time.

Supportive Techniques for Accelerated Learning

Discover the key in-water supportive techniques used in our system to greatly accelerate learning, for beginner comfort, safety, and trust-building, as well as to greatly enhance and accelerate coordination and rhythm development for struggle-free stroke mastery.

Additional specialist insights:

Freestyle 2.0 — A New Approach to Learning Freestyle:

Discover the main reasons why so many adults struggle to ultimately master the Freestyle / Front Crawl stroke for any kind of sustainable distance, and learn about our:

2-Layer, and
2-Phase system

—to ensure mastery of the Front Crawl stroke

Integrating Video Analysis for Accelerated Learning

How to use your modern mobile phone for instant in-water video analysis and feedback, and how this can be done in the most appropriate and beneficial of ways for your intermediate and advanced swimmers

Integrating Apnea / Freediving Principles for Enhanced Relaxation and Focus

Relaxation should be at the core foundation for any learning swimmer. Learn about the Mammalian Dive Reflex that all humans have, a deep physiological adaptation that we all have to being in the water and holding our breath, and discover how you can utilise this biological response to become a superpower throughout your swimmers journey of learning to swim

Other Benefits include:

• Being listed on our global register — making it easier for people wanting to learn the Confident Swimming Way to find you, and helping you grow your own practice

• Access to a growing library of educational resources and videos — including continued guidance for you as a teacher, and supportive course materials to share with your students to supplement their lessons

• Join our monthly live Teachers Question and Answer session: access ongoing support, join a like-minded community, and benefit from continued development to help you become the best and most effective specialist adult swimming teacher you can be

Ready to take the next step?

Interested in becoming a Certified Confident Swimming Way Teacher?

Submit the contact form below to register your interest