Specialist Adult Swimming Teacher Training
with an optional pathway towards becoming 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 highly effective way of learning to swim
Register your interest and develop your teaching practice through our specialist adult swimming teacher training in:
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How to Help Highly Sensitive, Nervous, and Fearful Adults Learn to Swim
How to gently, patiently, and appropriately assist highly sensitive adult learners / non-swimmers develop confidence, trust, and empowerment in their early stages of learning to swim. Learn the key practices, progressions, and hands-on supportive techniques to ensure that even the most sensitive learners develop confidence, relaxation, and a sense of being in control during their earliest experiences in the water. Discover how to avoid some of the common pitfalls in conventional adult instruction that can often unintentionally reinforce fear in sensitive beginners and discourage them from continuing their swimming journey. The most sensitive learners are the ones that need your help and expertise the most—learn how to best serve your sensitive and nervous beginning adults in this training.
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Teaching Different Body Types: Supporting Dense (and Buoyant) Swimmers
Discover our Body Type Classification System and learn how to adapt your teaching for dense body types—particularly for swimmers who are negatively buoyant and are often poorly served by conventional teaching approaches. Highly buoyant body types also present their own unique challenges. In this training, you will gain the understanding and practical strategies and adaptations needed to work successfully with all body types.
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Deep Water Confidence, Versatility, and Freedom
Learn how to prepare, develop, and equip your adult learners with the range of skills needed to feel safe, comfortable, relaxed, and fully in control in deep water—not simply brushing over treading water as an isolated skill. Through a carefully structured progression in shallow water, you will discover how to gently and successfully introduce learners to deep water for the very first time in a way that reinforces their confidence and helps them develop a genuine sense of control, freedom, and enjoyment within water of any depth.
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Hands-On Supportive Techniques for Accelerated Learning
Discover the key in-water supportive techniques used throughout this system to greatly accelerate learning and progress at every stage; promoting beginner comfort, safety, and trust, and facilitating the development of stability, coordination and rhythm in your swimmers for greater ease in learning and mastering the strokes.
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The Confident Swimming Way: Principles, Philosophy and our Core Developmental Pathway
Learn about our Core Developmental Pathway, developed and refined over 17 years of teaching beginning adults:
Foundation Stage: establishing understanding, relaxation, connection, and stability in the water: the essential Foundation for the swimming journey that lies ahead.
Deep Water Confidence and Versatility: developing safety, adaptability, and freedom within water of any depth.
Stroke Mastery (and Advanced Skills): refining efficient, sustainable, and optimised movement through the water.
Additional topics
Ⓐ Integrating Video Analysis for Accelerated Learning
Practical tips on how to use the modern mobile phone for instant in-water video analysis and feedback, and learn how this simple but powerful tool can be integrated appropriately and effectively to accelerate learning for your intermediate and advanced swimmers.
Ⓑ Integrating Freediving Principles for Relaxation and Focus
Relaxation should lie at the heart of every swimmer's learning journey. Learn about the Mammalian Dive Reflex, a deep physiological adaptation shared by all humans in response to immersion and breath-holding, and discover how an understanding of this innate response can help your learners develop greater relaxation, focus, and connection with the water throughout their journey of learning to swim.
Optional Certification Pathway (Extended Training and Mentoring)
For teachers who resonate deeply with this approach and wish to become Certified Confident Swimming Way Teachers, additional benefits include:
• Being listed on our Confident Swimming Way global register, helping learners find your specialist lessons, and supporting the growth of 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.
• Invitations to our monthly Teachers' Development and Mentoring Sessions, providing ongoing support, a like-minded professional community, shared learning through case discussions, troubleshooting, and success stories, and continued development to help you become the most effective specialist adult swimming teacher you can be.
Ready to take the next step?
Interested in our specialist training or in becoming a Certified Confident Swimming Way Teacher?
Submit the contact form below to register your interest
Prerequisite: Participants should hold an existing Level 2 Teaching Swimming qualification with Swim England or STA, or an equivalent internationally recognised swimming teaching certification