A lesser-known fact about me is I pride myself on trying to be as efficient as possible, if I was to drive somewhere every day, I'm going to search for ways to my destination with less traffic, or try a shorter route. I apply this attitude to all aspects of my life and I was constantly searching for a 'better way' of being organized, especially with all the travelling and moving that came with the Coaching work. This lead me to try and organize my session on my laptop, if I could store them all in a way that made sense on my laptop that would be way better than carrying all these binders around with me surely. I could pack more clothes in my suitcase or even travel lighter! So I set about ways of saving the session plans as PDF's initially, but if the session was elaborate or had several components, I wasn't completely confident translating it from concept to the field and being sure it would work, which was when I began trying to animate the sessions, if I could see them in action then I would be more sure about them being a success, I could even show the players the patterns beforehand on a tablet computer if I needed too!

After months of perfecting my animation skills I was finally happy with what I was creating, so happy, in fact, that I began to list them on a website, if I didn't have my laptop or tablet I could get the sessions on my phone anywhere I had internet access now! I've quickly gone from carrying binders, to carrying all that knowledge in the palm of my hand. I shared the website with a few coaches and friends who all found the concept useful, at the time it was just a handful of sessions and if that could be useful, what would it be like if it was scaled up?

Almost 10 years later, animated session plans are more prevalent than they were, here at Coaches Training Room we still create all our sessions in house, we still design, animate and publish proven, up to date content so Coaches can add more sessions to their own arsenal of ideas whenever, wherever.