ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the author's most recent season of coaching that was significantly shaped by Positive Pedagogy (PPed). It reflects on the author's experience of coaching the girl’s Intermediate private school team and lists three activities for describing how the features of PPed were used, and how the author adapted the approach to the different challenges presented by the athletes. The chapter provides examples of how the author tackled each drill, and how the author helped the learning process of the athletes. It describes the athletes response in terms of their learning, motivation, and feelings (engagement, happiness, frustration, etc.). Basketball is a game of adjustments and one has to coach in a way that prepares the players to be able to adjust in games. Drawing on Seligman’s PERMA model, Light and Harvey suggest that in sport, engagement occurs when people see an activity worthy of emotional, physical and intellectual commitment.
