Really excited to be starting my Performance Coach award. Playing around with how I can visually create prompts for task design.

Paying attention to -
Skills acquisition through an Ecological Dynamics lens.

📸 starling murmeration (google)
📸 navigating tricky staircase (Emma Love)
📸 childs game (Emma Love)
📸 The Talent Equation Podcast

Tuning into -

Dr Alex Lascu - ‘Operation’
(Substack 17.03.2025)

Phillip O’Callaghan - ‘Where to focus, guiding attention & more’
(Substack 15.03.2025)

‘Coach developer’ or ‘evolving coaches’ (Lascu)

Japanese concept of Ikigai

📸 (unsplash, O’Callaghan, UK Coaching, FB)

I love the notion that we are human becoming (rather than beings, which are static and unchanging and only now), so my ~fortnightly newsletter is now 🌿 The Thought Garden 🌿 which is a more accurate way to describe the open, genuine, expressive way I write now 🥹

skillacqlascu.substack.com

‘Independent paddler’ - this phrase never quite works for me.

What if we instead used ‘independent thinker’?

Encouraging students to use their current knowledge, ask questions, be part of the decision making process prior, on and off the water.

#learninglandscape

Expert halo - how do we create a positive learning landscape where students feel able to ask questions about our (the coach, leader or instructor) decisions?

Reflective practise has been crucial to my development as a coach practitioner in 2024. Love these two quotes from two very different disciplines. Admittedly feels slightly odd that this is my first post on this platform - currently I have one follower who is @skillacqlascu.bsky.social !