More and more we’re starting to recognise the importance of player well-being. But what about you the coach? What about your well-being?

Here’s an idea - utilise Martin Seligman’s PERMA Model:

-positive emotion: work out what positive emotions your participation in coaching…

Coaches…So you want to be a world class coach?

If so, you would be well-served to become an incredible teacher and well-informed about human learning.

To help you do this, then you’d do well to consider these approaches to teaching, learning, and coaching…

-Rosenshine’s…

Coaches…

Three mental skills you may wish to incorporate into your session design…

Attention
Intensity
Intent

These qualities can be developed in the classroom, in big groups and small groups, in one to one conversations, and in the gym.

But they’re (probably) developed…

Four thoughts for players…

One…

Players: Antidotes to a bad game...

-remember the good moments...there were some!
-reflect on past best games...they're still there!
-talk to your coaches...they'll have some wisdom!
-talk to your team mates...they're still your mates!
-look…

Players: one of the most important questions you can ask yourself is: 'What will I do if it's going wrong?'

This doesn't mean it will go wrong! But it does mean you'll be ready for 'if' or 'when' it
does!

Planning to deal with failure is part of readying yourself for success!

Love this from Laura Healy Laura Healy on this weeks episode of The Sport Psych Show. Laura, Olivia Bramley RMIT University and I discuss a paper led by Olivia, co-authored by Laura & Dr Mustafa Sarkar which examines mental health within sub-elite women’s sport apple.co/3PUX5Z8

The temptation of a sports coach is to advise. To make right. To offer solution.

But how about listening? Deep listening!

A deep sense of listening requires leaving judgment at the door…

It requires a quiet mind
It requires openness
It requires empathy
It requires curiosity…

A short piece on the importance of putting participation first (for coaches) 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

It doesn't really matter who you are...

You can be the manager of a Premier League club...you can be head coach of an Under 18's Bundesliga Academy team...you can be an Under 12's coach at a…

Seven essential psychological approaches to creating a more competitive team with more competitive individuals:

-retrieval practice
-shared mental models
-game pre-mortem
-goal orientation
-approach behaviours
-pictorial metaphors
-attention-control
-post mortem feedback loops…

Watch the video below…

Nadal won’t be bullied…he simply won’t be bullied!

He won’t be bullied…either by his opponent nor by himself. Like all serious sport ls competitors, it’s probably himself he has to concern himself most with.

For all the skill Nadal has in his…

Really enjoyed my conversation with PhD student and professional footballer Olivia Bramley RMIT University and Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology Nottingham Trent University Laura Healy Laura Healy on this weeks episode of The Sport Psych Show.

Listen here apple.co/3PUX5Z8

Players: Every activity in every session is an opportunity to practice mindset…to practice:

-focus
-communication
-self-control
-commitment
-confidence
-body language
-anticipation
-mental intensity
-proactive play
-positive execution of actions
-calmness

Every activity!

No…

Possibly the biggest challenges in coaching are these:

-everything exists
-everything can work
-not everything works all of the time
-some things will likely work better than other things some times, while other things will work better at other times

Confusing?

Well, who said…

Never underestimate a positive gesture in team sports.

Gestures can help you to help your team mates by energising them and giving them information.

Gestures also energise yourself, help you stay focused and help you retain a feeling of positive intent…

Gestures can be seen…

Football teams will sometimes hit the pitch hot...playing dominant and commanding.

Sometimes however, they'll start slow and fall behind early…

This is when their focus must click in and when their patience must grow. This is when they must free up their feet and clear their…

How many footballers walk onto the training pitch and think:

“My job today is to work on paying attention...this starts with scanning the cues and clues that arise and dissolve as I play. To make sense of what I see. To act quickly on what I see. I can also use self-talk, body…

Olivia Bramley RMIT University on this weeks episode of The Sport Psych Show speaking about the stigma that is still attached to speaking out about mental health issues. Olivia is joined by Dr Laura Healy Laura Healy to discuss mental ill health in sport settings apple.co/3PUX5Z8