The Center for Healing and Justice Through Sport has designed a quick activity with a few real life scenarios to help you identify: Are You A Brain-based Coach?
Read each example and consider your response.
Scenario One
Traditional Coaching: When a player comes off the field, court, or out of the pool, you say “you should do this next time” or “why didn’t you do this?”
Brain-based Coaching: When a player comes off the field, court or out of the pool, you say: “what did you notice out there?”
Scenario Two
Traditional Coaching: You encourage players to “push through” whenever they are too far out of their comfort zone.
Brain-based Coaching: You allow players to opt in and out of play when they go too far out of their comfort zone.
Scenario Three
Traditional Coaching: When a player exhibits challenging behavior, you send them to a time out or kick them out of practice. They have three strikes, and then they are out.
Brain-based Coaching: When a player exhibits challenging behavior, you (or another adult) take them for a walk, play catch with them, or have them move their body in a way that helps them calm down.
How'd you fare?
Modern coaching has proven to all that the quality of the coach-athlete relationship is the primary predictor for an athlete’s performance. And without an expanded tool set, coaches can feel frustrated as they work to meet the diverse needs of their athletes.
Join the growing number of brain-based coaches in sports - read the Nothing Heals Like Sport playbook.
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