00:00 Women's Super League teams Arsenal, Aston Villa and Chelsea have partnered up with Lego
00:07 to produce Unstoppable FC, a series of sessions with young girls aimed at teaching girls build
00:14 back ability, the art of bouncing back after setbacks.
00:17 Dr Josephine Perry is a leading UK sports psychologist and spoke on new research shown
00:23 in young girls where parents worry they are being held back by the fear of failure.
00:28 So Lego has done some research in light of the recent Women's World Cup, looking at what
00:34 parents are looking to see in their daughters in order to give them great qualities to go
00:39 off and succeed in life.
00:41 And the main kind of qualities that they found parents really want to see their daughters
00:45 get are resilience, determination, passion and compassion.
00:50 And they seem like great qualities that we saw a lot in the women at the World Cup.
00:55 The lionesses were a massive inspiration to 73% of our daughters.
01:00 They really kind of got behind it and they they're really inspired by some of those qualities
01:04 that they saw.
01:06 And they wish that they'd been taught resilience when they were in school.
01:10 And 63% said they wanted to see their daughters be taught that kind of resilience, which is
01:15 why Lego's got involved.
01:17 And they've got campaigns, they've got a website that can really help children develop this.
01:22 And how important is sport specifically for showing young people that there are these
01:27 sort of contrasting emotions and they can actually bounce back from them as well?
01:31 I think sport is just the most beautiful environment to help children develop some really vital
01:38 life skills.
01:39 So they're going to lose a lot.
01:41 And that's actually good.
01:43 That means they can learn how to lose well.
01:45 They can learn that a loss isn't the end of the world.
01:48 It's just a moment in time.
01:50 And that you can learn some brilliant skills from that loss so that you can come back stronger.
01:54 They get to see that it's okay to have emotions.
01:57 We don't want to shut down emotions.
01:58 We want to feel the joy that comes from a brilliant win or the sadness that comes from
02:03 not doing as well as we want.
02:04 And sport's like a really nice microcosm of real life, where we get to practice all these
02:09 skills in quite a safe way.
02:12 So we've just had the Women's World Cup, obviously next year, the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
02:17 I mean, it just seems like there are endless sort of platforms for female role models to
02:23 keep inspiring.
02:24 There's definitely still work to be done.
02:27 We need far more female athletes being visible to our young girls so they can see what's
02:32 possible.
02:33 But it does feel like it's changing.
02:35 And I think the World Cup was a really good, obvious image of that.
02:39 If you go to the Lego Play Unstoppable website, there's some really good profiles of some
02:43 of our England players on there talking about that journey.
02:47 And that's what we need to see more of.
02:50 An incredible achievement from the Lionesses and England football as a whole is enabling
02:54 more young people to get inspired and get involved in exploring different emotions,
03:00 using sport as a platform to do so.
03:02 Thank you.
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