Rivers of Thinking

Rivers of Thinking

A random mix of rambles from the world of talent and coaching, personal thoughts on learning and the future of youth sport. The content is deliberately aimed at poking, prompting and provoking a few thoughts on what and how you do your stuff! It is here to help you examine some of your own practices and consider how you can improve, through reflection and self-evaluation, as well as being a tool for my own reflective process.

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children coaching grassroots high performance learning psychology sport 

Reflective questions for learning

October 7, 2016October 8, 2016 Nick L 3 Comments

One of the crucial elements of a high quality learning environment is the importance of reflection. In order to learn

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cricket psychology
children coaching grassroots psychology sport 

Guest blog by Rebecca Symes: sport psychology in action…

April 14, 2016November 1, 2019 Nick L 3 Comments

As part of this series of guest blogs I wanted to engage people beyond just coaches, because even specialist knowledge

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coaching; learning; thinking; sport
coaching learning psychology 

The next frontier: measuring the stuff that really matters…

January 25, 2016March 3, 2016 Nick Levett 5 Comments

So I was having a trip round a Professional Sporting Academy, being given the behind-the-scenes tour by the Academy Manager.

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coaching; learning; thinking; sport
coaching learning psychology sport 

Helping children becoming better players…

May 31, 2015March 2, 2016 Nick Levett 2 Comments

It’s fairly well recognised that our role as coaches is to help children get better, whether that is becoming better

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creativity
coaching creativity grassroots high performance learning psychology sport talent 

Developing creative players: first you need to understand creative people…

April 23, 2014April 29, 2016 Nick Levett 5 Comments

One of the most common phrases I hear up and down the country is the distinct lack of creative players

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switching teaching learning
coaching football learning psychology 

Developing better players: switching teaching to learning…

January 8, 2014March 3, 2016 Nick Levett 12 Comments

  This is not going to be like my typical blog post, a ramble into something I have been thinking

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Some of my favourite posts…

  • Understanding creative players
  • Measuring the stuff that matters
  • Switching focus from teaching to learning
  • A guest blog on introducing sport psych to kids
  • Why I'm pleased my son is born in May
 

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