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• Self Determination Theory
• The “What” and “Why” of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behaviour - Deci and Ryan (2000)

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.

This week's guests: Dr Suzanne Brown, Clinical Psychologist and Emotional Fitness Consultant working within business, sport and education and Dean Leek, Performance Mindset Coach within the sport and business sectors 

This Week's Content

On Children – Kahlil Gibran

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• Liminality
• Motherhood and Finding Yourself – Lisa Marchiano
• No Two Children Have The Same Parents – Gabor Mate
• Sports Parenting: Negotiating the challenges of the Youth Sports Journey to Help Kids Thrive – Paul Gamble

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Dan chats to Kevin Mulcahey about his experiences coaching both novices and experts and how you need to change to meet their needs.

Kevin coaches Gaelic football and hurling, Ireland's national sports as an assistant or head coach at all ages and levels. He has also worked in multiple roles on three continents as a coach of various stripes like assistant coach, S&C coach and performance coach in Aussie Rules, basketball, soccer, rugby, tennis, volleyball, hockey and in numerous other 1-2-1 roles over 28 years. 

He also runs Designing the Game on Facebook where he challenges coaches to think about their approaches to coaching. His main role is an owner-operator S&C and sports performance coach at TMC Performance Coaching. You can catch Kevin @movementcoachkm on Twitter where he is active and responds to DM’s.

In the podcast, they discuss the following:

• How much does your team coaching approach change when you are dealing with experts and novices?
• Using "pivot" players in any sport.
• A principle of play has normally been set by coaching experts from the past, no matter what sport you are in. How much do players need to know about a principle before you start working on it? And how do you introduce it?
• How to use deliberate practice in the right context.
• How long do you let a team or player do something which is clear to you that is inefficient, and despite your nudges, they continue to do it?

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Dan chats to Jacob Ford about his remarkable journey to becoming  Bury St Edmunds RFC and Ipswich School's director of rugby at the age of just 23.

The topics covered included:

• The best way to speak to players to allow them to grow
• What makes the players respect a coach
• What efficiency in training and a game looks like
• Being mentored by your dad (Mike Ford, former England and Bath coach)
• The differences and similarities between coaching professional players and school players
• Should bench players get paid the same as the starters
• Working with players who are older than you
• Developing a style of play that suits your team
• Can a coach make excuses for a poor performance

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: Laurence Halsted, former GB Olympic Fencer, former Performance Director for Danish Fencing and currently Director of Mentoring at the True Athlete Project. Dr Jon Rhodes, founding member of Imagery Coaching and lecturer at the University of Plymouth and Richard Cheetham, Senior fellow in Sports Coaching at the University of Winchester and coach developer with a variety of sports. 

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

5 Ways To Develop Curiosity – Life Hack

The Importance of Developing Curiosity – Psych Central

Seven Ways To Be More Curious – Psychology Today

Understanding and Developing Organisational Culture – SHRM 

Salisbury Rovers

How Do Our values influence our Behaviours – NHS

Team Denmark’s Sport Psychology Professional Philosophy – Diment, Henriksen and Larsen (2020)

Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman

The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.

This week's guests: Nick Ward, Altis Programmes Director,  Dr Peter Olusoga, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Sports Psychology consultant with a specialism in the psychology of coaching in high-performance coaching environments, and Josh Fletcher, performance coach with Formula 3 and founder of Career Blueprint. 

This Week's Content

Nick Ward Tweet Thread – Nick Ward/Josh Fletcher/Peter Olusoga

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• Desperate to Quit: A Narrative Analysis of Burnout and Recovery in High Performance Sports Coaching – Dr Peter Olusoga
• Altis – World Class Sport Performance Education (Coach Education, Mentoring, Resources)
• The Reflective Practitioners Journal – Josh Fletcher
• Career Blueprint – Josh Fletcher 
• Disciplinary Power: recognizing some of the forces in coaching - a guest post - Joe Mills & Jim Denison
• Introducing a New Element to Coaching: Power ... a guest-post – Joe Mills and Jim Dennison 
• Beginning to Coach with Power in Mind - a guest post - Joe Mills and Jim Dennison

Anyone wishing to attend the ALTIS Beta trial of their mentoring programme, please feel free to contact Nick Ward via his social media channels (mentioned in the pod) or vie email at [email protected]

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Dan Cottrell chats to top sports psychologist Dan Abrahams about how even non-expert coaches can make a difference in their players' mindset.

Dan Abrahams is the author of four best-selling sports psychology books and is the founder of both the Dan Abrahams Soccer Academy and The Sport Psych Show podcast.

They talk around the following ideas:

• Can a coach really influence the mind of a player?
• What does a good environment and culture look like?
• How do we help build a high-performance mindset?
• Why we need to help our players understand how to perform, even if they are seemingly off their game?
• What does a bio-psycho-social approach mean to a coach and the player?
• How can non-expert coaches make a difference using sports psychological interventions?

To find out more about Dan Abrahams, visit him here:
danabrahams.com
@DanAbrahams77

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: Jonny McMurty coach, coach educator and researcher with Rugby Australia and Queensland University and Peter Hughes, athletic development coach with Ulster Rugby. 

This Week's Content

• Jonny McMurty Current Research                                 
• Coaching The Coaches – Jonny McMurty

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• Self Determination Theory and Motivation – Kendra Cherry 
• Centre for Self Determination Theory – CSDT
• Positive Psychology Theory In A Nutshell – Catarina Lino
• 6 Psychology Theories You Can Practise in Everyday Life – Marie Skelton

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: Zane Winslade, author of the Mental Toughness Journal, mental performance coach with Flow Sport and coach and Kyle McLean, coach developer, educator, owner of The Coaching Gig and coach. 

THIS WEEK'S CONTENT

The Mental Toughness Journal – Zane Winslade

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• The Coaching Gig – Kyle McLean
• The Coaching Gig Junior Rugby Resource – Kyle Mclean
• Flow Sport – Zane Winslade
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
• Eat That Frog: Get More of the Important Things Done Today! - Brian Tracy 
• Revisiting Masters (1992): Implicit Motor Learning – Tim Buszard
• The Epic Story of Implicit Motor Learning – Professor Rich Master

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Dan hosts a discussion between Professor Rob Gray and Dr Mike Ashford about how players make decisions.

The discussion is based on a paper that Mike wrote reviewing different academic approaches to decision-making:
Understanding a Player’s Decision-Making Process in Team Sports: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence
https://doi.org/10.3390/sports9050065

Rob Gray suggests that the role of ecological dynamics needs to be viewed differently from the paper's conclusions.

During the discussion, we explore different views on information processing and ecological dynamics, with reference to various coaching and game scenarios.

Rob is associate Professor of Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University and host of the Perception & Action Podcast, which has over 350 episodes. He is also of author of How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills, also available as an audio book.
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Mike is a lecturer in Sport Coaching at Coventry University. His research interests include player and coach decision making, coach development and understanding how we can shape effective learning environments. Mike completed his PhD at Leeds Beckett University.
Follow Mike @MAGreyMattersUK

Here are some of the key links from the pod.

From Mike:

• frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.609127/full My study exploring player decision making in rugby union alongside Andy and Jamie. 
• https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1612197X.2021.1907768 Rosie, Dave and Howies' study exploring premiership rugby union players decision making. 
• https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sport-psych-show/id1434313037?i=1000548775303 My podcast with Dan Abrahams exploring the systematic literature review study and my decision making study

From Rob:

• My review of Mike's paper: https://perceptionaction.com/386/ 
• Ecological approach imagery: https://perceptionaction.com/337/ 
• Strong anticipation: https://perceptionaction.com/336/ 

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