Trainer/Coach Training Program

Five days of professional development including theory and practical training; opportunity to see great circus shows, bond with peers and expand your professional network.

The Trainers:

Jeff Young - Advanced Gymnastics Coach, BCircA - NICA (AUS)

Annabel Carberry - No Fit State (Europe) | Lost in Translation Circus (UK)

Massimiliano Rosetti - Lost in Translation Circus (UK)

Daniel Gunthorpe, Circoarts (NZ)

Tom Davis - Artistic Director, Warehouse Circus; BCircA (NICA, 2010)


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Topics covered in 2025:

  1. Class structure, preparation and planning. Class design for maximal flow and engagement from students:
  2. BREAKING DOWN SKILLS - Learn how to identify key actions and shapes within skills to perfect the step-by-step coaching process.
  3. PRE-TRAINING AND CONDITIONING - How to select and incorporate specific strength & conditioning exercises for specialty artists into your program.
  4. MANAGING MENTAL BLOCKS - Methods used at the elite level for approaching and working with mental blocks.
  5. ACROBATIC ELEMENTS - A gymnastics coach’s method for developing basic acrobatics, from forward rolls to backsaults!

  6. new approaches for engagement and inclusion:

   - Proactive and Collaborative solutions to behaviours of concern - ways to connect with young people to help them self-regulate.

   - How to have a positive interaction.

   - Youth Spin Out (Circus-as-therapy program at Warehouse Circus): How it's working as a program - talk/roundtable.

  1. Efficient warm-up and conditioning for minimising injury and maximising training outcomes
  2. Teaching Aerial: safe progressions for early and mid-level students
  3. Teaching Hand-To-Hand: Approaches and techniques
  4. A handful of curated games and why we play them!


ALSO:  For an add-on, we offer a circus training session (ground-based only - our aerial classes are chockers!) across all 5 days!

Classes available: Partner acro/hula hoop/group acro with toss/pitch/pass juggling/contact juggling/devil sticks/hats/contortion/tumbling/foot juggling/solo juggling/partner acro/group acro.


The where/when


It’s at Warehouse Circus in Canberra, from the 29th September - 5th October 2025.

Enrol here:


You can click here to enrol and pay a $50 deposit to reserve your place. Once that’s done, feel free to get in touch and we can talk payment plans, issues, logistical stuff, and more, and we will do our best to help troubleshoot options and opportunities.


Thanks for your interest, and we hope to see you at the festival!


If the chaperone is a circus trainer – add $475 for the Trainer training development program!

CIRCUS TRAINER TICKETS

$475

Lunch included

  • Circus Trainer Dev Program
  • Lunch provided Mon - Fri
  • Tickets to select Big-Top Shows

$200

Optional Add On - Morning training sessions with our festival camp - pick to attend any non-aerial based training sessions as a participant to learn new skills and training methods

$300

Optional Add On - $300 Discounted Season Pass to Festival Shows - you will be sent a discount code after enrolment!

All participants have opportunities to perform work at the festival in different formats. Bring acts, props and let us know if you would like to perform!