I have been very busy over these winter months tapping away on the computer to put the finishing touches to another eBook I am working on about the coaching process for climbing instructors. In a way it is aimed at being a resource for climbing coaches when it comes to skill acquisition and general processes for coaching. It covers many models for both UKCC coaching and some of the things taught in US instructor/guide courses in particular WEA programme that I delivered when in South America a few years back.
The books main themes are:
- What is Coaching
- Understanding How We Learn
- How Anxiety can disrupt Learning
- Teaching Models: How to Effectively Coach a Skill
- Advanced Coaching – Communication, Developing Teams, Leadership, Cohesion, Coach-Athlete interactions, Legal and Moral issues and Child protection.
- Reflective Practice.
Hopefully the book will come out next month. Although there is a potential problem in that I have shown the document to the Mountain Training Boards to see if they would wish to endorse the book for their new coaching awards due out later this year. If they do then this might delay the publication, as the cogs of power tend to turn slowly.