The further training for the A trainers and the network forum of the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund (DEB) have as part of the Deutschland Cups attracted over 60 participants and numerous renowned speakers to Düsseldorf/Kaarst.
On 8 and 9 November 2019, the A-training with 35 trainers. On the first day of the event, Karl Schwarzenbrunner (DEB Federal trainer for science and training) first about the news from the association. Later, the event focused on the topics “Transition”, “Leadership” and “Athletics/Big Data”. For this he had DEB specially the renowned speakers Harry Kreis (trainer Düsseldorfer EG) and Jens Rasiejewski (football teacher) were invited. On the second day of the event, everything revolved around sports psychology for the participants. In the morning, speaker Annika Hof zum Berge, who works as a sports psychologist in the VfL Bochum 1848 talent center, discussed “conflict management” and “coach well-being”.
The DEB Network forum celebrated its premiere on November 9th and 10th, 2019 in Düsseldorf/Kaarst. The event was launched to offer young talent coordinators, coaches, sporting directors and club boards a free platform for exchange. 30 participants accepted the invitation and submitted their topic requests in advance. Based on these requests, an individual catalog of topics was put together for the two days of the event. At the start, Ernst Höfner and Ullrich Liebsch (club support) gave a lecture on the 5-star program and explained the contents to the participants. The newly created Urmel badge and the associated club events were subsequently presented by Julia Mayer (DEB Project managers) presented. On the second day of the event, Annika Hof zum Berge and Irmelin Brigitta Otten (President HamburgThe Eis- und Rollerstportverband eV) on the topics of “conflict management” and “recommendations for action for parents’ evenings” and ensured a worthy conclusion to the two days of the event.
Karl Schwarzenbrunner, DEB National coach for science and training: “The A training course and the network forum received a very good response from participants. We are very pleased that we were once again able to attract extremely renowned speakers for our events and were also able to promote exchange among the participants. We are convinced that the trainers will take home some new insights from the lectures and discussions and incorporate them into their future work.”
The organized already in September DEB-Trainer training as part of the “NHL Global Series Challenge”. Berlin the NHL Coaching Clinic, in which 30 coaches participated. Two weeks later, the VBG Symposium took place with the main topics of prevention and care in cooperation with the Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft. You can find all information about these events HERE.

