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Norman Brook
Dec 30, 20182 min read
Coaching Mindsets for and through Sport
One of the lessons I took away from reading Brent Rushall’s[1] sports psychology book[2] “Psyching in Sport: The Psychological...
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Norman Brook
Dec 27, 20182 min read
Emotional Intelligence – Developing People not Players
Intentional design is at the heart of all coaching programmes aimed at developing performance and life skills outcomes. On the one side...
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Norman Brook
Jul 21, 20182 min read
The Fortune Cookie & Phil Race’s Ripples Model of Learning
I was taken out for dinner to a local restaurant that does Asian Fusion food to celebrate my birthday last week. Whilst I had a glass of...
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Norman Brook
Jul 12, 20183 min read
Time to Re-Think Safeguarding in Sport
Where sports organisations have acted on their duty of care to safeguard participants in their sport from non-accidental harm, there has...
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Norman Brook
Jun 5, 20186 min read
Vital Connections – Lou Bergholz
I met Lou Bergholz at the Beyond Sport conference held in Cape Town in December 2011. Although we talked on that occasion the opportunity...
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Norman Brook
Mar 8, 20187 min read
Is South African Sport Failing in it’s Statutory Duty of Care?
Recent cases of historical abuse of children is sport around the world should be of concern to South Africa’s sports administrators. Few...
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Norman Brook
May 23, 20177 min read
Replacing the UNOSDP with IOC Commission may strengthen SDP Sector
There seems to be quite some concern in Sport for Development and Peace circles that UN Secretary-General António Guterres has announced...
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Norman Brook
Mar 20, 20173 min read
Sport Workforce Development
Sport is delivered through a workforce that is comprised of both salaried staff and volunteers. The workforce comprises administrators,...
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Norman Brook
Mar 9, 20172 min read
Building Sporting & Life Competences
Traditional sports programmes focus on developing individual players and teams to take part and pursue success in sports competition....
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Norman Brook
Mar 3, 20174 min read
Developing Independent, Confident & Skilled Athletes
Richard Mayer is a South African athletics coach, runner, athletics statistician and an advocate for the Lydiard approach to running. He...
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Norman Brook
Dec 15, 20165 min read
No safe sport in a society that is failing to safeguard children.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a renowned South African Anglican cleric known for his opposition to the policies of apartheid. During the...
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Norman Brook
Jan 10, 20143 min read
Gleneagles, Invictus & Meeting Mandela
The Gleneagles Agreement was unanimously approved by the Commonwealth of Nations at a meeting at Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Scotland. In...
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Norman Brook
Oct 19, 20136 min read
Dynamics in Athletics Coaching in South Africa
Norman Brook recently presented at the Western Province Athletics Coaches Workshop held at the Sports Science Institute in Cape Town. The...
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Norman Brook
Mar 6, 20134 min read
Revisiting the Millennium Development Goals
In a previous article Norman Brook asked whether sport could really be used to address the Millennium Development Goals. In this article...
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Norman Brook
Jan 7, 20132 min read
Coaching for Hope using ICES Methodology to Up-Skill the Coaching Workforce
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called for jobs and livelihoods to be at the heart of the development agenda after the...
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Norman Brook
Oct 2, 20124 min read
Athletic Success Cannot Be Left To Happenchance
I was recently invited on to Nick Bauer’s SAfm Sports Special radio show along with Athletics Coach Ian Harries. Ian is a former...
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Norman Brook
Dec 27, 20113 min read
Coaching Track Endurance Events
Norman Brook was recently asked to present a level 1 coach education session on coaching the track endurance events for the Western...
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Norman Brook
Dec 19, 201111 min read
The Role of the Coach in Sport for Development
The following article was presented at the Next Steps Sports Development Symposium in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in November 2011....
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Norman Brook
Oct 25, 20103 min read
Sport and the Millenium Goals
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon suggested recently that sport could contribute to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. He...
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Norman Brook
Sep 28, 20092 min read
Aptitude to Self Actualisation (Sporting Talent 1)
Norman Brook recently presented a paper on the practice of identifying, confirming and developing sporting talent at a seminar in...
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