Fit Brain Dragon: Seeking sponsorship

Welcome to Fit Brain Dragon

Welcome to my Blog and to musings, wisdom (perhaps) and other stuff from my world of Mental Health and Dragon Boat Racing in Adelaide, South Australia.

Mental Health is but one aspect of overall health and shares this Blog (and my mind) with Dragon Boat Racing, an accessible fitness activity that I have chosen for myself. I am not alone in my conviction that you can not have health without having mental health. It is also true, though less often said, that you can't have mental health without having physical health.

This rather obvious relationship is surprisingly missed too often by too many. This Blog will feature my thoughts about mental health and about the value of Dragon Boat Racing in my life.

In my experience as a Mental Health Nurse and a Counsellor many people with chronic health problems such as Diabetes, Arthritis and Depression may find enormous advantage in linking themselves to medical and other supports as well as a team sport such as Dragon Boat Racing.

It has been demonstrated in Type 2 (late onset)Diabetes for example that a proper routine of diet and exercise is a more effective first line treatment than medications.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Seeking sponsorship

Exploring in my head some strategies for attracting some sponsorship to a local sports team such as Powerblades Dragon Boat Racing Club (my club) and exploring the notions of relationship, value, promise etc held in sponsorship. Parellels with friendships a bit. They don't happen unless you 'expose' yourself (no raincoat jokes please)to others, discover a basis for a relationship and see some mutual benefit in friendship as well as a sense of a future together.
I guess in sponsorship though the commitment to limited giving is the key difference.
I'm very happy to hear ideas about attracting sponsorship.
I recall the fabulous Ralph Hood (UniSA) explaining a theory of relationship that was based around the notion that relationships only start and last when members experience mutual benefit (as determined by each person).
Recent instability in employment is occurring as organisation changes in response to changing market needs then the clarity about what relationships are wanted and valued is lost. Both parties (employer/employee)look at the other trying to work out the chances that they may mutually benefit from a continued relationship.