ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the challenging notion: "You just can't teach philosophical and theoretical frameworks". The two case studies demonstrates the importance of understanding and developing one's philosophy and theoretical framework in order to support one's professional practice. The philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of the approach the author was using can be classified using the framework from Richard J Keegan. The aims of service focused on performance; either enhancement or "fixing" performance problems. With the support service taking place within an elite development academy, this was implicitly the main emphasis. The ontology and epistemology of the MST work the author performed at this time was adopting the "hard science" tradition, claiming that its theories are "true" and strengthened/enhanced by each supportive study/paper. In contrast a soft science tradition would reject the idea of generalizable theories/models and treat each person as completely unique because each athlete's psychological reality/experience is construed.
