Turning Experience Into Expertise
The Coaching Mindset explores how structured reflection can help people understand experience, connect learning and improve future practice.
At the centre of this work is the NACA Model:
Notice. Analyse. Connect. Apply.
The model has been developed through work across sport education, curriculum and coaching and continues to evolve through professional practice and academic study.
Developed through practice
The Coaching Mindset was developed by me, Dylan Villalobos, I am Programme Lead and Lecturer in Sport at West London College.
My work focuses on sport education, curriculum, coaching pedagogy, educational leadership and reflective practice.
NACA has been used across classroom teaching, curriculum design, coaching sessions and the Hammersmith Athletic Futsal Academy as a shared framework for learning and development.
About Me
I am an educator, sports programme lead, coach and reflective practice specialist. My work sits across education, sports coaching, mentoring and leadership development. Through The Coaching Mindset, I support individuals, teams and organisations to develop more structured, reflective and adaptive practice.
The NACA Framework
Notice
What Happened?
Analyse
Why did it happen?
Connect
What does this link to?
Apply
What will I do next?
The NACA Framework gives reflection a clear structure. It helps people move beyond description and into deeper learning, better decision making and purposeful action.
From theory into practice
The Coaching Mindset is grounded in real educational and coaching environments.
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Sport education and curriculum
Exploring how curriculum, teaching and assessment can help learners connect practical experience with deeper understanding.
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Coaching and player development
Using structured reflection to support decision making, coaching practice and player learning.
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Hammersmith Athletic
Connecting futsal, curriculum and reflective practice through the development of the Hammersmith Athletic Futsal Academy.
The Coaching Craft
The Coaching Craft is a collection of writing on sport education, curriculum, coaching, leadership, learning and reflective practice.
The articles emerge from teaching, coaching, reading, research and professional experience.
Some explore NACA directly. Others examine wider questions about how people learn, develop and make sense of practice.
Working With The Best
The Coaching Mindset has overseen the academic development of many athletes in such a short space of time
