Southampton Success School - Week 2: with Paralympian Peter Hull MBE

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:25 in Courses

Where: Richard Taunton College, Southampton www.richardtaunton.ac.uk/findus
Date: 1st May 2013
Time: 14:25
With: Peter Hull MBE, Paralympic Gold Medallist

Index

Biography
Session Summary
About the Success School
Who’s it For?
Photos

Biography of Peter Hull MBE

Peter is President of the Rushmoor Mallards Disability Sports Club, where he started his training for the Paralympics. He started swimming at the age of five for physiotherapy. He swam in his first gala in the summer of 1975 at the BSAD (British Sports Association for the Disabled) National Championships at Stoke Mandeville. It was a gold for the 50m backstroke and the start of a journey that would take him around the country, and world, swimming for school, club and country. The pinnacle of his career was being selected to represent his country at the 1988 and 1992 Paralympics. His highest achievement is 3 Golds in Barcelona. Peter, now Hampshire and Isle of Wight's Disability Sport Development Officer, supports, encourages and empowers a variety of partners to make sport and physical activity more accessible to disabled people.

Session Summary

In an interactive interview with a member of the Dialogue Society staff, Peter Hull MBE will explore his journey to success, discussing the challenges that he faced, the inspiration, attitudes and actions that helped him overcome these and his advice to participants at the start of their journeys. A Q&A session will follow the interview, and participants, staff and speakers will have time to interact informally over refreshments.

2.25pm Introduction from a Dialogue Society member of staff
2.30pm Interview with speaker
3.10pm Question and answer session
3.30pm Closing remarks
3.35pm Refreshments
3.55pm End of the session

About the Success School

The Dialogue Society Success School is a five-week programme of weekly evening seminars intended to help inspire, encourage and equip young people to aspire to and work towards success.

Participants will hear the inspirational stories of a range of successful professionals in a friendly and interactive environment (4 sessions). The School also offers a workshop with Hamwic Speakers, in which participants will be able to develop confidence by practising public speaking skills.

Regular attendees will receive certificates.

Who’s it For?

The School is primarily intended for young people of 16-21 years of age in and around Southampton. We hope to welcome participants from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.