December, 2024 – Announcement! The coaching playbook Nothing Heals Like Sport is now available in Spanish as “Nada Cura Como el Deporte.” This comprehensive guide brings brain-based, healing-centered coaching strategies to Spanish-speaking communities and the dedicated coaches who serve them. You can also access the guide in this live link.
The playbook combines cutting-edge neuroscience with practical coaching tactics to help you create environments where all athletes can thrive, particularly those who have faced adversity. Inside you’ll find:
- Research-backed strategies for building meaningful coach-athlete relationships
- Clear explanations of how the brain responds to stress and trauma
- Concrete tools for helping athletes regulate their emotions through movement
- Actionable ways to make your practices and games more predictable and safe
- Real examples from coaches already implementing these approaches
Whether you’re coaching fútbol in Florida, béisbol in the Bronx, or any sport anywhere Spanish is spoken, this guide will help you understand not just what to do as a coach, but why it matters for your athletes’ development and wellbeing.
The guide reflects our deep commitment to making healing-centered coaching accessible to all communities. Because at the end of the day, the transformative power of sport knows no language barriers.
Download the Spanish-language playbook and join a growing community of coaches who believe that with the right approach, sport can be one of our most powerful tools for helping young people heal and thrive.
*Note:
All content within the Nothing Heals Like Sport Playbook is open sourced, which we will never change as we believe all should have access to this research and these tools. If you use this content in any of your communications, please attribute it to us using the script below and include a link to the original source at: bit.ly/nhlsplaybook
“Content adapted from the Nothing Heals Like Sport Playbook by the Center for Healing and Justice through Sport. © 2025 CHJS All Rights Reserved “
- Estrategias respaldadas por la investigación para construir relaciones significativas entre entrenador y atleta
- Explicaciones claras sobre cómo el cerebro responde al estrés y al trauma
- Herramientas concretas para ayudar a los atletas a regular sus emociones a través del movimiento
- Formas prácticas de hacer que tus entrenamientos y juegos sean más predecibles y seguros
- Ejemplos reales de entrenadores que ya están implementando estos enfoques
Looking for the original, English version? Here you go!
Questions about CHJS resources and the growing healing-centered sport movement? Let’s chat. Email our Director of Training, Joe Smith. jsmith@chjs.org