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all right now it's time to teach you our
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four positive coaching experience
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techniques researcher Carol D introduces
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us to this concept of the growth mindset
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that you and I as humans are not fixed
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we can grow we can get better at things
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but for some of our young people it's a
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very hard thing to embrace and to start
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to walk into it's our job as a coach to
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create an experience to use the
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techniques that we're going to teach you
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to create a growth mindset in every
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athlete that's on your team this idea
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that with the right combination of
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support and relationships the right
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combination of skill building and and
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opportunities that athletes and young
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people can get better at things that
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they can see themselves as someone who
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can learn something new someone who can
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have a growth mindset let's get right
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into them with my friend Mighty Soul our
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first trauma sensitive skill is looking
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and listening these are fundamental
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skills that all coaches must
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Master however for us as trauma
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sensitive coaches it's even more
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important because Behavior tells a story
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a regular coach they're doing some of
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this maybe but most of the time they're
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focused on the play right whatever is
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happening on the field uh they're
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thinking about strategy they're thinking
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about tactics and performance and that's
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great but we want to take it to the next
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level here we want to look for something
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more we want to look for what happens
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when our player gets into some sort of
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scuffle with a player from another team
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uh we want to be interested in how does
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my player react in that moment what what
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are they saying what are what's their
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body language like so we are looking to
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to learn as much as we can about the
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players on our team about their story uh
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so a lot of the times when we don't look
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when we don't listen it can tell a young
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person that you're not interested you're
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not interested in finding out how
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they're doing if they're okay what's
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going on in their lives and we need to
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tell we need to show them that we're
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interested because it's important to
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forming that vital connection right that
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strong relationship so do this but do it
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in an authentic way don't be
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inauthentic um and really think of it as
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not ease dropping right we're not here
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to be you know nosy be in people's
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business to a you know an extent that's
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that's not comfortable we just want to
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think about it as like as a coach you
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need to get your ear hustle on you need
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to know that your eyes and ears have to
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be on all the
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time and for this first strategy uh or
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this first skill of looking and
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listening it's the first skill because
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it is the foundation right if you are
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not looking and listening then it
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becomes really difficult to do these
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next skills we're going to introduce you
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to it's that first skill because it's so
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closely tied to building relationships
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if we want to create that that strong
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relationship with the young people on
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our team we need to be looking and
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listening to you know Baseline behaviors
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what makes them laugh and smile uh what
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are their triggers what you know sets
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them off H how do they talk about
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themselves is their selft talk positive
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or are they often putting themselves
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down these are the things that just some
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of the things I'll say that we really
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want to be looking and listening to or
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for as coaches our next trauma sensitive
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skill is asking growth questions I know
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earlier in this video you we talked
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about the growth mindset right and so
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these questions are all about Shifting
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the way that we interact with our young
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people too often the way that we do
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things on our team is you know giving
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direction mandating things telling
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telling telling and there's space for
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that absolutely but we also want to have
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another way of interacting with our team
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we want to create players who are able
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to think for themselves because we're
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not with them on the court on the field
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uh in the pool or wherever it is that
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you coach we are not with them even in
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their lives so we need to make sure that
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they are developing that ability to
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think for themselves to you know have
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make critical decisions Under Pressure
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uh and this is for sport and life so to
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do this players need opportunities to
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practice and they need to practice
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thinking for themselves think for a
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moment you know what happens when a
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player actually has the opportunity
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Unity to think for themselves when the
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coach stops talking and stops you know
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telling and telling and turns their
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instructions their directions back
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toward the player in the form of a
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question what happens in that kind of a
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moment well it's a
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pretty cool opportunity for the player
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to start to think for themselves to
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think through all the possibilities and
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problem solve
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so this is really the power of trauma
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sensitive coaching and it produces a
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better player too an independent
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thinking player who can make those smart
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choices Under Pressure the thing I will
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say about this strategy though about
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this skill is that these are questions
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for when kids are in a good place when
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they're using their water watermelon and
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they are thinking rationally right
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they're in that prefrontal cortex in
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just a second we're going to turn our
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attention to questions that we can use
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when our kids are
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upset um when they are triggered so for
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these kinds of questions it's important
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to consider and to make sure we're aware
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of timing because the timing really does
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matter and so the tools that we pick and
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choose for different moments
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they have to
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correspond with what's happening in that
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moment right so that was our second
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skill growth questions all right it's my
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last one with you I want you to think
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back to yourself being in a really bad
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space being triggered having something
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that happened an experience that
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happened that put you in a bad state of
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mine were you really at your perfect
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optimal best and best production and
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like best human that you could be or
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maybe you say and do some things that
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you regretted or maybe just reacted
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because your mind was putting yourself
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in a survival mode to just react and
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survive in that moment for our third
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skill this one is called calming
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questions it's for that exact same
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scenario when it happens to the athletes
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on your team this is the second type of
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question that you can use and it's a
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very special type of question that you
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can use in a very special type of moment
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whenever they're triggered to begin to
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calm the process down think about it
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when an athlete gets all out of whack
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and they're beginning to be very angry
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or lash out or maybe even shut down
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they're in that survival mode they've
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been triggered we often say calm down
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and never in the history of mankind has
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anyone ever said calm down and it
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actually calmed the other person down it
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usually elevates it and two elevated
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people cannot calm down a situation did
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you know that research shows it takes 18
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minutes from being fully triggered to
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fully untriggered in a perfect scenario
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you and I are we're not often working in
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perfect scenario I want you to think
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back to the brain and your knowledge of
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the parts of the brain I want to get
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them back in their prefrontal cortex
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where they're able to do their rational
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thinking we're able to make rational
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choices and have rational conversations
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but if that amydala has taken over and
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in a perfect scenario it takes 18
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minutes for it to not be taking over and
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to be back in the prefrontal cortex then
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I have to start that process and calming
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questions can be a great way to start
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that process this is a line of questions
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that you can come up with that may feel
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a little random but they're not about
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the specific instance that cus the
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trigger it should be about something
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they care about if that's a perfect way
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to do it but it could be something
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that's a little random like where'd you
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get those shoes did you tell me that
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your parents were here did you know that
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you're two assists away from a triple
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double and one of my favorite coach ones
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that they gave us was do you know the
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Giraffes Can't Jump these are all just
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little random maybe perfect questions
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are the ones that are something that
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they care about something in your sports
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something that you're doing right then
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and there but it's not about the
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specific thing that caused them to be
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triggered because that may keep them
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triggered it won't start the process to
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get them back in the prefrontal court
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one of my favorite stories was sitting
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with the coach and teaching this
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technique and they said oh my goodness I
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was in a game I got really angry at a
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player that just did something to me and
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as I came off the court coach said hey
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where'd you get those shoes I was like
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coach you gave them to me what what do
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you mean where did I get these shoes and
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in that moment he realized that yes the
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question felt random yes the question
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was a little out of the blue but to make
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that rational decision of I got these
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shoes from you coach and why are you
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asking me this that happens here in the
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prefrontal cortex it starts that process
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of calming down the amigdala and getting
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me back into a space where I can have
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rational conversations and make rational
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thoughts remember your athletes are not
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going to calm down with one question but
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we're trying to start that process
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trying to move them away from the event
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trying to keep them safe trying to keep
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them from doing or saying things that we
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can't take back and so to start that
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process calming questions can be a great
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tool that you use as a coach to get that
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amydala to begin to cool down get the
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prefrontal cortex to reactivate to keep
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our athletes safe for the next one I'm
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giving it back to Mighty Soul our final
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trauma sensitive skill that we can use
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as coaches is
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praise praise is the key principle in
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developing positive behavior if we want
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to see more of something then we have to
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praise people to really get them
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positively motivated to do that thing we
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don't just want to use praise though I
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mean praise is great but we want to use
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as up to us Sports coaches a specific
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kind of praise and we call that
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TLC praise so to help you understand
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this really important type of praise you
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can follow along in page 36 of your
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workbooks and I'll summarize the TLC
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praise technique right now so the T
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stands for tell it this is what the
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player did we want to say what we see
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right so if they spent all day in the
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pool trying to get from one end to the
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other you can say that you just spent 4
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hours in the pool trying to perfect your
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your swim from one side to the other
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boom that's it that's T it the L now is
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uh it stands for label it so this is a
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descriptor that we want to attach to
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that tet the
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descriptor uh really
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describes what the action is called that
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we saw so in the case that I just said
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we might want to say that that player
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was dedicated they showed a lot of
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dedication so that is the word that I
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would use that is my label dedicated
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dedication anything like that the Sea of
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TLC praise actually stands for celebrate
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so this is really key right we want to
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show them with our smile with our
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gestures uh be really positive maybe a
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fist bump a high five really show them
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that what they did is awesome it's
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amazing it's great and we we we want to
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see more of it right so show how proud
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you are of that young person for doing
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whatever that is find some ways to be
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creative about it maybe you know high
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five is great and it's awesome but maybe
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you can also throw in a little
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opportunity to matter like hey you're
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going to say the team cheer at the end
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of the day or you're going to lead the
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next uh warm-up drill whatever it is so
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be a little creative with your
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celebration if you
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can but this specific order will really
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help us give the best kind of praise to
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our young people praise that is specific
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that really sticks that is that helps
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them be resilient right against any kind
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of negative words that come their way
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and really helps them see that hey I
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can't deny this my coach isn't just
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saying I'm great just because I actually
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did put in this work and my coach sees
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that so this is a great technique to use
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and it is TLC praise now that you've
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completed all of the Mist training
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videos you are back on track so welcome
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back on track but please return to your
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original cohort on my quest and complete
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the training assessment for positive
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coaching
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experiences thanks coach and see you
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soon