{"id":80058,"date":"2022-08-29T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=80058"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:39","slug":"doherty-macintosh-and-kerwin-fostering-a-fear-based-environment-coach-behaviour-needs-to-change-in-high-performance-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/08\/doherty-macintosh-and-kerwin-fostering-a-fear-based-environment-coach-behaviour-needs-to-change-in-high-performance-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"DOHERTY, MACINTOSH and KERWIN: Fostering a fear-based environment: Coach behaviour needs to change in high-performance sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Kerwin, Associate Professor of Sport Management at Brock University; Alison Doherty, Professor of Sport Management at Western University; and Eric MacIntosh, Professor of Health Sciences at University of Ottawa, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/fostering-a-fear-based-environment-coach-behaviour-needs-to-change-in-high-performance-sport-188563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the need for a shift in coaching behaviour in Canadian high-performance sport to protect athletes.<\/p>\n<p>The write:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Sport organizations have repeatedly come under fire with frequent allegations of toxic culture. With each news article, comes a push to change the culture of sport, yet culture change is difficult and ripe with push back.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This leaves sport practitioners with the question, where do we start? Our answer: The coach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Several\u00a0sport organizations\u00a0have faced criticism about\u00a0coaching practices, and this was highlighted by athletes who shared their stories with us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As part of a larger project that aims to inform safer high-performance sport culture, we spoke with 28 Canadian high performance athletes who are (or were) on a path to podium results at the highest level of their sport.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In response to an open question about when they feel unsafe in their sport, above all else these athletes discussed coaches at length, providing a range of examples of unsafe behaviours and practices that epitomize a culture that needs to be changed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/fostering-a-fear-based-environment-coach-behaviour-needs-to-change-in-high-performance-sport-188563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation website<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Kerwin, Associate Professor of Sport Management at Brock University; Alison Doherty, Professor of Sport Management at Western University; and Eric MacIntosh, Professor of Health Sciences at University of Ottawa, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about the need for a shift in coaching behaviour in Canadian high-performance sport to protect athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,6],"tags":[7488,4210,57,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80063,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80058\/revisions\/80063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}