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Active Learning Strategies
Huddle Up trainings are driven by active learning strategies that maximize interactive dialogue and enhance participant learning.
As former athletes, Huddle Up founding members have an insiders understanding of sport culture combined with over 20 years of lessons learned on the most impactful strategies to address gender violence.
Huddle Up members helped introduce and develop the bystander approach to prevention in the gender violence field and have thousands of hours of “on-the-ground” experience of implementing this strategy in high school, college, and professional sport.
Huddle Up leverages the transcendent power of sport to eradicate gender violence, in all of its forms, and the sexism underpinning this abuse. In sport, the huddle is a powerful symbol of togetherness, a place where teammates convene to reinforce their union, challenge & support one another, and communicate strategy. In the huddle, teammates forget past set-backs, galvanize conviction, and always have a unified front against the opponent. Huddle Up harnesses that power by challenging, educating, and empowering participants to be “all-in” to defeat our opponent – sexist abuse.
Huddle Up addresses the full continuum of abusive behaviors and empowers participants to understand how misogynistic language, sexual harassment, gendered bullying, sexual assault, rape and domestic violence are linked together. This understanding inspires participants to have the courage to challenge behaviors on all levels of the continuum.
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The NCAS has been a leader of the sport for social justice movement for 3o years, and one of the core issues we have worked to eliminate is gender violence. Our work in co-developing the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) model placed us in the vanguard of our field by creating innovations around: engaging men; the bystander approach; men and women working together; discussion-based strategies; and many more. Specifically, our experience in sports culture has been pioneering.
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From locker rooms to sport executive suites, we have learned many lessons and developed best practices for effectively addressing the full continuum of abusive behaviors and empowering participants to understand how misogynistic language, sexual harassment, gendered bullying, sexual assault, rape and domestic violence are linked together. Our experience informs us that, notwithstanding some incremental progress in sports culture, another innovation is needed to help a sports world that is struggling to gain any real traction in dealing with gender violence.
Simply put, more needs to be done than what has been done in this field to date. We’ve learned that conversations need to go deeper to shift attitudes and behaviors, and to have lasting impact on a departments’ or teams’ culture. We’ve learned that tailored curriculum and trainings are needed for different groups ranging from senior leadership to student-athletes -- surgical strategies to most effectively engage and transform participants. We’ve learned that everyone must be involved in training discussions about these issues. We’ve learned that we, as a culture, need to re-think how learning is defined. Finally, we’ve learned how to make impact in sport organizations, to actually move the needle, and we can’t wait to partner with organizations who believe what we believe.
Led by Jeff O’Brien, longtime director of MVP and MVP National, the NCAS has been inspired to synergize our learning into a research-based model called Huddle Up. Huddle Up leverages the transcendent power of sport to eradicate gender violence, in all of its forms, and the sexism underpinning this abuse. In sport, the huddle is a powerful symbol of togetherness, a place where teammates convene to reinforce their union, challenge & support one another, and communicate strategy. In the huddle, teammates forget past set-backs, galvanize conviction, and always have a unified front against the opponent. Huddle Up harnesses that power by challenging, educating, and empowering participants to be “all-in” to defeat our opponent – sexist abuse.
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Huddle Up’s 2017 MLB Spring Training Tour Huddle Up completed our MLB Spring Training tour by visiting with several teams in both the Grapefruit League (FL) and the cactus League (AZ). Among the teams Huddle Up Impacted include: the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, and St. Louis Cardinals. Major League & Minor League coaches, staff, Baseball Operations Leadership, and Minor League Players were engaged with Huddle Up’s targeted curriculum. This year’s theme was living your organizations core values by addressing the full range of unhealthy and abusive behaviors that could include domestic violence, sexual violence, and child abuse.
NCAS impacts Leadership of 19 NBA teams
The NCAS provided domestic violence awareness education for 19 NBA teams in the Winter of 2015. NCAS trainers impacted the leadership of some of the NBA's top franchises including: Boston Celtics, San Antonio Spurs, Cleveland Cavaliers, Chicago Bulls, OKC Thunder, LA Lakers, Miami Heat, Atlanta Hawks, and more. In each session NCAS trainers challenged the basketball operations leadership (President, GM, Assistant GM's, Coaches, Trainers, and Strength Coaches) to create a culture of awareness and clear expectations around domestic violence.
Huddle Up launches with active 1st Month
Huddle Up launched on July 1, 2016 and started off running with several trainings requested to impact these organizations. Huddle Up is driven to impact sports culture and this focus was apparent as trainings with high school sports organization AthLife; student-athlete trainings with Michigan St. University & the University of Illinois; and training with the Los Angeles Dodgers. All of these trainings will take place in July.