Invictus Games

• BetterUp® , the human transformation company, today announced a renewed partnership with the Invictus Games Foundation to support members of the Invictus community, made up of service members from around the world who have suffered life-changing injuries or illnesses.
• In the past year, members of the Invictus Games Foundation who used BetterUp experienced increases in optimism (+35%), self-awareness (+42%), resilience (+52%), goal attainment (+58%), self-compassion (+31%) and emotional regulation (+35%).
• The first in-person activation of the renewed partnership will be support for the Invictus Games Foundation Conversation: Enabling a Home for Respect held at the upcoming Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023 in Germany.
• “The Invictus Games Foundation is once again grateful to BetterUp and the continued support that the platform provides to the Invictus community on a global level,” said Dominic Reid, Invictus Games Foundation CEO.

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• University sport teams have also faced their share of scandals including Lethbridge, St. Francis Xavier, Windsor, Victoria and Guelph.
• Athletes often recount how, at the very least, sport built their character and at the very most, saved their lives.

Imbalance of power

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  To clean up Hockey Canada, financial transparency is a must

  At the core of abuse is an imbalance of power where one person, group or body controls all the resources, decision-making and information.

• Total control can only be achieved through a lack of accountability, and examples exist at all levels in Canada:


Most of the abuse issues in Canadian sport stem from failures of leadership and governance, and most of the change has been driven by athlete movements and associations, journalists, academics and fans. The most productive and promising source of positive change in sport continues to come from the bottom up.

Change from the bottom up

• True Sport is a bottom-up initiative by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport designed to help Canadians reclaim the promise of sport.
• Canadian academics have led the way in understanding abuse problems in sport.
• Yet, sport in Canada is currently caught in a hierarchical system that fosters power imbalance and thus perpetuates the abuse at all levels.
• Nelson Mandela described sport as a tool against racism:
  “Sport has the power to change the world.

Inclusive environment

Likewise, sport leaders at all levels can lean on these principles of sport to shape the sport environment in ways that balance power and ensure better experiences for all sport participants with the following strategies: Language — State the purpose of sport verbally, visually, and structurally:
Practice — Function in a way that honours everyone:
Structures — Build an environment that promotes equity:
• We know from research on psychological safety that a safe environment is crucial to excellent sport experiences.
• Psychological safety hinges on leadership and the ability to foster an environment where participants feel they belong and are safe to contribute, express ideas, learn, experiment and grow individually and collectively.

• He and his brother are Air Force pararescuemen and his mom, dad, and stepdad are all Air Force veterans, so the family knew the risk of getting the call that no one wants.
• He sent news back to the family and, exhausted, settled into the hospital room to be close to his brother.
• "I felt like I was surrounded by family because everyone else in there was dealing with something like this.
• August remains on active duty and continues to serve as an Air Force pararescue jumper.