Megan Bartlett has a long career in youth sports and in developing resources and materials to help make coaches better. Today, she runs We Coach (www.weallcoach.com). Based in Boston, Massachusetts, We Coach, per its website, "works with organizations that are serious about increasing their social impact through sport. Our team of experts helps integrate innovative practices from the fields of youth and community development into sports programs and strategies." In this episode she speaks in depth about trauma and its impact on young athletes, helping athletes deal with stress, and the ever-expanding portfolio that coaches are expected to carry. 
1:00 – Her evolution in youth sports, the development of We Coach, and her work developing tools for coaches.
4:20 – Megan discusses the greatest problems that she sees coaches facing.
6:05 – Lessons that coaches can learn from teachers.
9:00 – Trauma and how coaches can recognize/deal with that. The dangers of a dysregulated child and a dysregulated adult/coach.
14:10 – When high school coaches have a dysregulated athlete who has suffered trauma, there’s good news. They can be turned around. The strategies are the same as they are for a child. It will just take a lot longer.
15:30 – The answer to too much stress isn’t no stress, it’s dosing stress. This is what makes sports such an important component in helping young people deal with trauma.
20:00 – How do we open sports for those who won’t compete at the collegiate and professional levels?
24:45 – How do coaches model dealing with Covid?
28:50 – How can coaches do a better job of managing parents? And how can parents do a better job supporting their athletes?
33:00 – Insights into how to work with We Coach.

Ver todos los episodios