Moving for Health – National workshops in Sweden
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Stakeholders from all over Sweden – from Åhus in the south to Skellefteå in the north – came together for the Moving for Health (MfH) national workshops to begin to explore key connections and differences between the physical literacy and health literacy concepts. Participants represented all sectors: regional sports confederation, municipalities, regional public health, community development projects, private sector and the university. Gathered for the shared purpose to better understand how quality movement experiences can contribute to better health. In a holistic and strategically sustainable way.
The national workshops served as a kick-off for the process of pilot testing the Swedish version of the MfH online training tool. Participants were invited to reflect on differences and overlap between the concepts by ”drawing the circles” – a seemingly simple task of drawing physical literacy and health literacy as two circles – that immediately sparked new and engaging questions amongst the participants. How large would you draw the concepts, and how would you position them relative to each other? Overlapping, or not? What is in the eventual overlap that the concepts have in common? Whats in one concept but not in the other?
”Creating a PL-HL-model can be very strategically smart for positioning and prioritizing the quality movement experience question within the health care setting”
– Workshop participant
”Physical literacy is a key to health, and therefore it should also naturally be a part of health literacy. But Im struggling to position physical activity within the model. Physical activity is not automatically healthy. But quality physical activity can be”
– Workshop participant
”These creative discussions felt both valuable and urgent for those who work with physical activity and health. It feels likely that the questions raised will continue to live on beyond the pilot-testing of the tool” – Tom Englén, director of Change the game
Some participants reached out the very same day as the workshop, suggesting follow up meetings in person to further co-develop this conceptual model. This reinforces our belief that this explorative work is both engaging and quite urgent.
Now follows a four week period where stakeholders are encouraged to try out the tool and to reflect on its potential relevance towards helping them reach their work-related goals. We look forward with curiosity to summarizing the input from the Swedish movement opportunity provider community engaging in the pilot testing.
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