Amin Gholami, PhD in Kinesiology
Cambie Facility Manager

Amin (he/him) is originally from Iran and found Jump Gymnastics while participating as a visiting researcher at the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa!

Amin Gholami completed his MA in Physical Education and Sport Sciences at Tehran University and went on to complete his PhD in Kinesiology at the Kharazmi University, Iran in 2011.

Amin has dedicated his professional life to children’s physical literacy programs and has over 15 years of professional and academic experience in the field. He has been involved in many children’s motor skills programs through design and optimization capacities, as well as management of structured active play centres, tools and equipment, and applications.

Amin’s strong interest in the Canadian Long Term Development (LTD) model pushed him to come to Canada to extend and share his knowledge in the field of children’s physical literacy. Physical literacy is key to the LTD model and our alignment with the LTD was of particular interest to him - he wanted to be part of our team!

Amin has been invited to speak and share his practical ideas about designing active play programs in conferences and workshops for kindergarten, preschool, elementary school facilitators and PE teachers in more than 30 countries.

In his spare time, he enjoys camping and hiking with his family. Amin's coaching philosophy is “Play your life” which means that you should try to have fun and play in every moment of your life.