So many coaches feel powerless to tackle the prevailing culture in the way sport is provided for children and young people. The Children's Coaching Collaborative is a community of changemakers that believes that we can do better. Join the community at playtheirway.org/support-the…

📣 New Podcast! "Dog Walk Diary - How to help coaches avoid ‘picking the ripe bananas’" on @Spreaker #coach_education #coaching #coaching_systems #talent_development spreaker.com/episode/dog-wal…

So excited to actually be in person at this event for the first time!!

Congrats to our friend and colleague @fab_otte (Head First Team GK Coach) on becoming Prem League Champion! We have recently published some work in skill ac together. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… Also with @AIKFotbollDam goalkeeping coach @BastiasAlamo22 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3829…

Here is Fabians excellent FIFA presentation fifatrainingcentre.com/en/co…

📣 New Podcast! "Beware of the 3 word slogan in coaching research" on @Spreaker #coaching #narratives #research #slogans #talent spreaker.com/episode/beware-…

In my recent podcast conversation on 'The talent equation' @stu_arm , I shared how critical it is for parents to master these emotions to create a supportive environment for their children. 🎧 Listen to this section at [06:16] youtube.com/watch?v=b1Wrse_W…

This is a fabulous video from @intrinzen that draws on a new paper by @MadhurMangalam that rips apart the notion of correct movement technique. Must Watch!! youtu.be/PIBZDv_EvDU?si=CHbE…

"We coach like we train ballet dancers - but tennis is an MMA fight" - a conversation with Steve Whelan buff.ly/4biDvQ4

Dog Walk Diary - The Eighth Waste buff.ly/3Ev0YRE

📣 New Podcast! "Dog Walk Diary - The Eighth Waste" on @Spreaker #coaching #development #effectivensss #leadership #learning #muda #waste #workforce spreaker.com/episode/dog-wal…

A meeting of the minds in Dublin at #MacDaids …. Where’s a mic 🎤 when you want one? Would have been a killer podcast! @MorrisCraig_ @stu_arm @markstkhlm

James J. Gibson was born on January 27, 1904 and made groundbreaking contributions to psychology during his 84-year life. Primarily working in perception and ecological psychology, Gibson revolutionized the field with his theory of affordances, which emphasized the direct perception of opportunities for action in an environment, rather than mediating internal processes like inferences or algorithms in mind/brain. His ecological approach to perception challenged mainstream views, emphasizing the relationship between an organism and its environment over isolated sensory inputs. Gibson’s influential works, including The Perception of the Visual World (1950) and The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979), reshaped how psychologists and cognitive scientists understand perception and behavior. His legacy extends far beyond psychology, influencing disciplines such as design, robotics, and education. James J. Gibson passed away in 1979, and we will honor his life and impact on Monday, January 27th, with two talks—one in English and one in Turkish! We will first host Harry Heft (PhD) from Denison University. Heft is one of the prominent figures in ecological psychology. His research has for the most part focused on how humans navigate their environment, particularly the environmental information used to learn paths and routes. Current studies aim to explore how this route knowledge can be used to develop a broader understanding of a place's overall configuration. He has also investigated the perception of affordances along with the development of children's navigational skills, environmental aesthetics, and the impact of home noise on cognitive development. His upcoming talk at CogIST is titled "The Psychological Habitat from an Ecological Perspective." You can find the link to the registration form below in the replies!

"Parenting is often 'undisciplined squads of emotion' - a conversation with Richard Shorter buff.ly/4jnQaVA

And, FYI, there are some who are talking about how cognition may live & breathe within an ecological explanation as to how skillful movement behavior emerges in sport (see below & also read the work of Araujo, Reed, Turvey, various others). Don't let some across the space tell you otherwise just b/c they want to push their narratives. frontiersin.org/journals/spo…

Anyone is free to critique or challenge ideas within a paper all day long… But don’t try to act as if someone said something they didn’t or portray them as attempting to deceive readers to fit a narrative. That, as I say in the pod w/Stu & Tyler, is bush league.

The quiet secret of performance... 'ARP' - PBNO Episode 5 buff.ly/3E7B6uU

"They ought to be ashamed of themselves" - a conversation with Shawn Myszka and Tyler Yearby buff.ly/3C87Gwo

I’ve had a bit of a sneak peak to what the team at @EMERGENTMVMT are planning and I’m beyond excited. The Talent Equation is looking forward to some big collaborations in 2025 with these pioneers!

At the end of an enjoyable convo yesterday with @stu_arm & @TylerYearby, Stu asked what we may be looking forward to in 2025. Unsurprisingly, I said "I am excited to see more high-performance sports organizations in the USA bring on Skill ACQ Specialists in '25 to help lead organizational strategies around the inclusion of skill ACQ ideas within their practices." To put it simply, I believe 2025 is the year of the SAS! journalofexpertise.org/artic…

Want a chance to win a one-to-one Zoom with me plus 95% off my online members' resources? Make sure you watch our next episode of 'Performance is a behaviour, not an Outcome' with myself & @stu_arm being recorded on the 8th of January. Find out how here -