Join us as we discuss how the journey through three olympics has shaped our guests views on sport and sport coaching.

We are joined by Professor John Lyle, Dr. Jamie Taylor and Andy Burns to explore and establish a shared understanding of what sport coaching is, and what it isn't.  We may not have conceptualised sport coaching but we certainly enjoyed navigating the complexity and ambiguity which perhaps get in the way of doing so.  

Unscripted and under the influence.  Join Laurie, Anna, and Derek as we collectively make sense of our last episode.  Reflections are simply that and not a presentation of a set of truths.  Please consume critically and with a pinch of salt.

Join Anna and Laurie for our Paralympic special with Dr Tabo Huntley, Tania Nadarajah and Dr Rob Townsend.

Join us as we discuss the role of challenge in athlete development with Aine MacNamara, Jamie Taylor and Neil McCarthy.

After a brief hiatus Anna, Laurie and Derek return for the Two Beer Minimum to reflect upon S2 Episode 4: In conversation with Anna Stodter & Chris Cushion.  As always we are unscripted and under the influence so please take our musings with a pinch of salt....

This was an enjoyable exploration of Anna's work and in particular her work with Prof. Chris Cushion.  We explore coach education, development and learning!  Hope you enjoy!!!

Join us for a conversation with Dr Julian North of Leeds Beckett University as we explore the question 'Is Sport Coaching a Knowledge Building Community'?

Welcome to a very special episode and collaboration with our friends Hugh Gilmore & Pete Olusoga from The Eighty Percent Mental podcast and of course Sara Erdner, author of Dear Coach.  In this episode we cover a breadth of topics and we really hope you enjoy an informal yet informative deep dive on a number of important areas within sport coaching which often go ignored.... We must note there is a slight issue with Derek's audio on this episode so you may pick up some background noise...

Join us as we explore "Feedback in Learning" from three very distinct disciplines: education, sport and music.  Laurie, Anna and Derek navigate this space with our guests Dr Ed Cope (sport coaching), Julia Astrid Wagner (music) and Dave Marsden (education). We hope you enjoy and as always, please interact with us on twitter on @CoachDiscourse.

Join Laurie, Anna and Derek as they reflect on our most recent episode with Mike Ashford and Ceriann Davies on 'Decision Making'.  We also look back on the series as a whole and discuss some of the topics we aim to explore in the future.  As always the Two Beer Minimum is unscripted and under the influence - please take with a pinch of salt.

Anna leads us through an exploration of Decision Making with our guests Ceriann Davies and Mike Ashford.   We has some technical issues with sound in this episode but we still hope you enjoy this as much as we did...

Laurie, Anna and Derek are joined by Alain Guttinger, Dr Niels Fedderson and Dr Simon Phelen to discuss the recent discourse on social media in the area of sport coaching and skill acquisition.  

Join Laurie, Anna and Derek as they crack open a couple of craft beers, talk some nonsense and attempt to make sense of what we might have taken as lessons or further reflections from our guests.  

Join us as we discuss skill acquisition in freestyle action sports - Laurie, Anna and Derek discuss the roots of our guests 'sports', the tree of skills, peer learning and learning culture in a fascinating conversation driven by curiosity.

Join Laurie, Anna and Derek as we enjoy lighthearted and craft beer fuelled reflections on the our second instalment of the podcast.   DISCLAIMER: Our musings are not a presentation of fact or absolute truth, simply our continued thoughts and reflections from the episode - take things with a pinch of salt....

In this episode we explore Ontology and Epistemology in the context of sport coaching; in essence, we discuss what we may believe to be coaching or coaching practice and how we may know that to be true.  Our guests offer us real insight into these terms and their application in the context of coaching research and coaching practice.  We hope you enjoy if this episode sparks some curiosity why not join the conversation and reach out to us on twitter at @coachDiscourse.  There will be a second...

Join Laurie, Anna, Phil, Chris and me as we continue to make sense of our first episode...

What do you get when you bring a sociologist, a psychologist and a cultural architect together?  Episode 1 of The Coaching Discourse Podcast of course.  In this episode Laurie, Anna and I will be discussing the importance of culture in sport and sport coaching and the role leadership plays within that. We will follow up this episode with 'The Two Beer Minimum' where the hosts will discuss, over a craft beer or two, the key lessons we feel the guests brought to the table.  We are inviting...

The Two Beer Minimum will be a segment in each episode where your hosts Laurie MacDonald, Dr. Anna Stodter and Derek O'Riordan catch up over a couple of craft beers and make sense of their conversation with their guests; sharing what they thought to be most insightful for them and what they considered to be the key learnings from the episode. This unscripted conversation is just between us as we discuss why we chose to start and engage with this platform.  We also chat through what we hope to...