Table of Contents
Part I: Sports coaching: Mentor as design thinker
1. An ecological, reflexive and praxis oriented mentor training programme: The role of the mentoring conversation
2. What is design thinking? A case study of using design thinking in a sports coaching context
Part II: Sports Coaching: Case studies of mentoring conversations
3. Making the transitions from the UEFA Advanced Licence to the UEFA Professional Licence (or not)
4. A mentoring conversation in community sports coaching: Martyn Cooke (mentor) and Lisa Snape (mentee)
5. An Irish case study conversation: Rugby
6. Giving voice to the nodding donkey: A critical-humanistic approach to mentoring from down under
7. Portuguese case study conversation: Handball
8. The coffee club
9. A Canadian case study conversation: Mentorship in elite women’s ice hockey
10.An Irish case study conversation: Gaelic games
11. A university academic mentor–mentee relationship in practice: A Northern Irish sports coaching degree
Part III: Sports coach mentor as design thinker: Some final thoughts
12. Lessons learned: Sports coach mentor as design thinker