Thoughts on Coaching and Coach Education

A few days ago I reacted to a tweet offered by  Jean Côté‏  around key coaching aspects for children, I’ve copied this below: In this tweet Jean refers to the photo of a slide that suggests there are no key aspects (I'm going to say principles from here) for coaching u6 children. I clearly don’t agree with this as is clear from my response. The issue with Twitter though, is that it is easy to throw stones but without then taking responsibility for throwing them. It is also easy for them to be too critical (and maybe a little unnecessarily rude – damn the reactive reptilian brain!). Indeed, twitter rarely accounts for context, and there is every chance the tweet removes too much of the context that the slide was presented in (my guess is that it has). All the same, I still don't think the message is particularly helpful, I stand by that bit. Consequently, I thought I would offer a view on some (not all, this is only a blog!) principles that I am aware of from lite