Essential Guidance and Planning Documents

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This section provides foundational resources to help NSO leaders, wellbeing leads, and operational staff strategically and systematically build or strengthen wellbeing systems in high performance environments – in, through and beyond the HP system. It includes practical guidance, templates, and tools that support onboarding, offboarding, selection processes, and day‑to‑day wellbeing practice.

In Through Beyond
Planning In-Through-Beyond

Wellbeing Preparation and Planning template plus NSO Health Check support materials.
Planning In-Through-Beyond

Fillable, practical tool with considerations and recommendations to help NSOs successfully embed policies and initiatives.
Guidance IN

Phased guidance to support sports when onboarding their athletes, family/whānau, coaches, volunteers and staff to optimise performance wellbeing for all parties throughout the pathway.
 Guidance THROUGH

Recommendations for NSOs and relevant parties to promote wellbeing across each phase of the selection process.
See New Zealand Olympic Team for Selections Guidance Notes for Chief Executives, High Performance Director/Managers, Selectors and others involved in the selection process.
See also the Athlete Selection Guide on the Athlete Selection and Wellbeing Hub developed by Athlete Leaders Network for a practical guide for athletes to support their understanding about how selection works, their rights, and actions they can take.
 Guidance BEYOND

Guidance to promote healthy adaptation of individuals and sports that can be tailored for different offboarding transition journeys.
Three real-world scenarios showing best practice approaches to supporting athlete offboarding transitions across different sports and circumstances.
Guidance In-Through-Beyond

Key considerations for supporting para athletes through entry, progression, and transition beyond high performance sport.
Guidance In-Through-Beyond

This resource provides guidance for the development of onboarding and offboarding resources for young athletes who are going into, through and beyond high performance (HP) sport.
Guidance In-Through-Beyond

This document provides guidance to sports when developing onboarding and offboarding resources for whānau who are supporting high performance athletes in, through and out of their HP journey.
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