Tag: supportive environment
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Trust is built
When you think about it, saying that trust is built over time is an incredibly accurate way to put it. You have to continuously add interactions to your history with someone to get to a place of trust. Each positive interaction is like a brick. Each negative interaction, like a sledgehammer. When it comes to…
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You are not solar powered
Back in elementary school, I had one of those cheap and simple calculators. It had solar panels on it to for power. After you turned it on, there was not really an off button and just stayed on. But if you placed you hand over the panels, it finally turned off, until you moved your…
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A quick post
This will be a very quick post. There is a power in feeling seen. In knowing that despite the mistakes you make that others will still be there for you. For that reason, it can be healing to be part of a real team atmosphere and to have a caring coach. Teammates and coaches can…
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Are you doing too much?
You finally have seen the light when it comes to sports-based youth development. You wanted to start incorporating all of the tenets in your practices, but now you are exhausted and questioning whether or not you should even try this. I mean you were struggling to even fit in stretching before and now you are…
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What the melee at a middle school basketball game tells us about what’s important in youth sports
Two weeks ago, a man died at a middle school basketball game. He was not the victim of a sudden onset of a health issue. But instead of a larger issue that plagues us. Violence. As the events were reported, a brawl broke out in the stands. A collection of adults, who should know better,…
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The 8 essential elements for positive youth development settings
In my previous posts, I did a quick run through of what sport-based youth development means. Even quicker: It is basically using sport to promote positive youth development. Now, that means that you need to make sure the environment is set up to maximize positive development. The writers, Eccles and Gootman, identified eight essential features…
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Breaking down sport-based youth development: Supportive environments
As you build out a youth sport program, you definitely need to secure facilities, resources, and players of course. One extra you need to give thought to is the environment. More specifically, how can you craft a supportive environment that is the best for your athletes? A supportive environment is one that is “warm” and…
The Sideline Fix 