Learn with Pace
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Led by Aidan Little, Senior Exercise Physiologist, Site Manager, & Training & Development Manager at PACE Health
PACE Health offers clinicians a genuine path to better practice. From full-day workshops with industry leaders to one-on-one mentorship, our professional development programs are built around how clinicians actually work - not how textbooks say they should.
We offers three professional development opportunities - Super Saturdays, a Mentorship Program, and Workplace Workshops - all led by a Senior Exercise Physiologist with over seven years of clinical practice.
WHAT WE OFFER
PACE Professional Development
Three distinct ways to grow your clinical practice, all grounded in real-world application and evidence-based thinking.
PACE Super Saturdays
PACE Health invests in industry-leading presenters to run a full-day workshop for our team. This offer opens a limited number of spots to likeminded clinicians and businesses, giving you access to high-level professional development at a fraction of the usual cost.
Recent sessions have included The Knowledge Exchange, Connection Medicine (invisible illnesses), and specialist presentations from orthopaedic surgeons and rheumatologists.
Mentorship Program
A structured development pathway designed to accelerate clinical confidence and decision-making for Exercise Physiologists; from new graduates through to clinicians wanting to level up their reasoning, communication, and management of complex presentations.
Led by Aidan Little, Training & Development Manager, PACE Health
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This mentorship is built around how clinicians actually work day-to-day in private practice: time-limited consults, complex clients, competing priorities, flare-ups, psychosocial barriers, and the need to integrate evidence while still being realistic and client-centred.
This is not more theory. It's a framework-driven approach that helps EPs think clearly in real time, communicate with confidence, problem-solve when things aren't working, and manage complex clients long-term without burning out.
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New graduate and early career EPs
For many EPs, the jump from uni to private practice can feel huge - not because they don't know the textbook content, but because real clients rarely present like textbooks. This program helps bridge that gap by building:
Confidence running initial consults and creating clear action plans
Structure for managing pain, flare-ups, setbacks, and adherence barriers
Clinical reasoning to choose the right interventions, not just good exercises
Communication tools to explain complex topics simply and effectively
The ability to work with complex clients using a biopsychosocial lens
EPs wanting to keep developing their clinical skills
Even experienced clinicians can feel like they're repeating the same tools or relying on habits rather than clearly reasoned decisions. This program supports clinicians to:
Refine clinical frameworks and decision-making
Update practice using modern evidence and guidelines
Deepen pain and behaviour-change communication
Manage more complex presentations with clarity and confidence
Build consistency across assessments, programming, progressions, and long-term management
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The program is delivered as structured modules with interactive workshops, practical tools, real-case application, and space to troubleshoot current clinical challenges. Sessions are designed to be immediately applicable to your caseload.
A key feature is that mentorship also acts as a clinical support container - a place to bring questions from your week, debrief tricky cases, troubleshoot what's not working, refine workload and client management strategies, and build confidence through repetition and guided feedback.
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This mentorship gives clinicians a system - not just information.
By combining frameworks for reasoning, practical tools, case-based application, communication and behaviour-change skill-building, and ongoing troubleshooting support; participants leave with more confidence, better decision-making, and a clearer ability to help complex clients in real-world practice.
Workplace Workshops
Interactive, evidence-based training sessions delivered directly to your team.
Our Workplace Workshops are interactive, evidence-based training sessions delivered in person to your team. Each workshop is fully tailored to your workplace, your team's needs, experience level, and clinical focus, combining real case examples, practical frameworks, and interactive discussion. The goal is simple: your team leaves with tools they can use straight away.
Workshop Formats
60-minute seminar
Half-day workshop
Full-day intensive
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PACE Workplace Workshops are interactive, evidence-based training sessions delivered directly to your team. Designed for allied health clinics, multidisciplinary teams, universities, sporting organisations, and corporate health programs seeking practical, clinically relevant education that can be immediately applied in practice.
Each workshop is tailored to your workplace. Whether you are looking to upskill your team in strength and conditioning principles, deepen understanding of chronic disease management under the scope of an Accredited Exercise Physiologist, or improve confidence managing persistent pain; sessions are customised to suit your team's needs, level of experience, and clinical focus.
Workshops are delivered in person and combine evidence-based education, clear clinical frameworks, real case examples, practical implementation strategies, and interactive discussion and Q&A.
The aim is not just to present information, but to strengthen clinical reasoning, improve decision-making confidence, and ensure your team leaves with tools they can implement immediately.
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Topics can be selected from the list below or developed specifically for your team.
Pain & Symptom Management
Understanding pain physiology
The Twin Peaks model
Practical symptom modification strategies
Communicating pain effectively
Strength & Conditioning
Programming for strength and hypertrophy
Building progression frameworks
Periodisation principles in private practice
Applying S&C principles in clinical populations
Goal Setting & Behaviour Change
How to set effective goals
Building structured action plans
Addressing barriers to adherence
Managing flare-ups and setbacks
Ageing & Sarcopenia
Understanding age-related muscle loss
Managing sarcopenia in practice
Exercise interventions to maintain independence
Contrast Therapy
Sauna and cold plunge: mechanisms and evidence
Nervous system responses
Practical applications and limitations
Chronic Condition Management (AEP Scope) Tendinopathy, Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Stroke, Cerebral palsy, Long COVID, Musculoskeletal and metabolic conditions
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Delivered by a Senior Exercise Physiologist and Training & Development Manager
Grounded in real clinical experience
Designed to bridge research and application
Structured to improve team-wide consistency and confidence
Customisable to your workplace goals
The focus is always practical translation - helping clinicians move beyond knowledge acquisition toward clear clinical action.
YOUR FACILITATOR
Aidan Little Senior Exercise Physiologist, Site Manager & Training & Development Manager, PACE Health
7+ years clinical experience Leading PACE T&D since 2023
Bridging the gap between theory and real-world practice
Aidan Little is a Senior Exercise Physiologist, Site Manager, and Training & Development Manager at PACE Health Management. Since 2023, he has led PACE's company-wide Training & Development portfolio, designing and implementing a structured onboarding and mentorship pathway that supports clinicians from student placement through to confident, independent practice.
With over seven years of clinical experience across private practice and chronic disease management, Aidan has extensive experience in student supervision, professional development facilitation, and clinician mentoring. His work focuses on helping clinicians translate evidence into clear, practical decision-making.
Areas of Clinical Focus
Biopsychosocial models of care
Pain science & communication
Chronic disease management
Clinical reasoning frameworks
Exercise prescription systems
Clinician confidence development
"My goal is to help clinicians move beyond simply asking 'what exercise should I prescribe?' and instead develop the confidence to understand why they're prescribing it, how to communicate it effectively, and how to adapt it thoughtfully to complex, individual presentations."