On 12th April, I shall be walking with fellow Essex Seniors cricketers to support the Bob Willis Fund — raising money (donation link at the foot of this post!) for better prostate cancer screening — with Prostate Cancer UK.
Prostate cancer is the number one diagnosed male cancer in the UK, killing 11,500 men a year. There is still no national screening programme.
The Bob Willis Fund is supporting research to develop new tests, which is why I shall be joining #RonsMarch.
(more…)I posted recently about my experience with ChatGPT, and how it had helped me to clarify my thinking about the use of the coaching tool “Instruction”.
So when I saw that Google had released their own Large Language Model generative AI chatbot, Bard, I went in search of my next guru.
Once again, the “conversation” helped me to crystallise my thinking around around coaching pedagogies, I found out more about (one version) of Direct Instruction, and I learnt a valuable lesson for coaching and the use of questioning — don’t automatically accept the first answer you are given!
(more…)A learning week!
Neurodiversity training from Headstuff ADHD Therapy, through one of my “zero hours contract” workplaces.
An online webinar in the always interesting Myths of Sport Coaching webinar series (hosted on YouTube by Sequoia Books), on the proactive role of sports psychology.
And more reading, away from the functional “what to coach” and towards the more productive, much more interesting “how to work with people”.
And out of this has emerged a series of ideas on how to better support players with ADHD and autism.
But as I re-read the list of accommodations and adjustments, it became very apparent that what I had written down could be profitably applied to most coaching activities.
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