The Community Coach Program
Learn about this innovative and critically important coaching program that directly addresses the drop out rate in youth sport. For more information, please reach out to admin@beagreatcoach.net
Videos for Every Coach and Parent:
mental fitness skills
Dr. Karen MacNeill is a performance psychologist who learned about the importance of mental training in her less than optimal first game as a national team field hockey player. Dr. MacNeill suggests a few quick and easy exercises for coaches and parents to empower young athletes.
building a growth mindset
World and Olympic champion Duff Gibson talks about how some of the best community coaches his kids have had actually encouraged a growth mindset by making it about the challenge and giving the kids "permission to fail".
know your role
Matt Young has been a high performance athlete, a coach, and an outspoken advocate for what a wonderful dress rehearsal sport is for real life. Youth sport is not about the parent or the coach. It's about "as many as possible, for as long as possible, in the best environment possible."
coach - athlete partnership
Dr. Jen Walinga is a professor at Royal Roads University in the School of Communication and Culture. She is also a Performance Consultant and former national team rower with numerous international medals to her credit.
psychologically safe sport
Dr. Jen Walinga is a professor at Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada, and a former member of a World and Olympic gold medal rowing crew. This presentation is about promoting a psychologically safe AND high performing sport culture.
flying together
Jason Dorland is an author, a consultant, and an Olympic rower who was taught to hate the competitors he lined up against. He paid a very steep price for this mindset, but how he came to appreciate a better way that supports both mental wellness and performance, is inspiring and very relevant for anyone involved in youth sport.
ted talks for every coach and parent:
lessons in building resilience
Cath Bishop is a speaker, author and researcher in leadership, drawing on her experiences as an Olympic rower and former senior diplomat. Of particular relevance is her success in rowing after moving away from an outcome focussed coaching style.
development zone
Jim Thompson is a faculty member at Stanford University and founder of The Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to using sports to develop better athletes and better people.
give sport back to kids
Matt Young has been a high performance athlete, a coach, and an outspoken advocate for what a wonderful dress rehearsal sport is for real life. Youth sport is not about the parent or the coach. It's about "as many as possible, for as long as possible, in the best environment possible."
changing the game
John O'Sullivan founded the Changing the Game Project and is now an international speaker and national best-selling author of Changing the Game: The Parents Guide to Raising Happy, High-Performing Athletes and Giving Youth Sports back to Our Kids.
believing you can improve
Carol Dweck is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University. She is best known for conducting the research and coining the terms "growth" and "fixed" mindset, which have profound implications for education and sport.
Why kids are quitting
Tom Farrey, founder of Project Play, traces how athletics have drifted away from play to pressure--and what it would take to build a system where more kids can rediscover the joy of the game.
podcasts for Every Coach and Parent:
Better Sports parents S1 E1
Allison Forsyth: Demand Safe Sport, The Athlete Identity Crisis & Why are Sports Parents Losing It?
sporting change 3/4/2024
Leading with Heart with Dr. Cari Din
Rich roll E925
Olympic mental health, youth sport specialization, and the hidden cost of greatness with Peter Carlisle.
way of champions e20
Jim Thompson, Founder of Positive Coaching Alliance, on How Connection Precedes Commitment in Leadership
revisionist history s8 e8
The Crisis in Girls’ Sports with Lauren Fleshman and Linda Flanagan
the calgary sessions E153
Duff Gibson: The MINDSET That Turned DREAMS Into GOLD