Constraints Led Approach and non-linear pedagogy in skill learning

Ecological Psychology and Dynamic Systems Theory principles have been used to create an approach to skill learning. This approach is called Constraints Led Approach (CLA) and is sometimes referred to as non-linear pedagogy. This approach is fairly recent and contradicts most of mainstream psychological theoretical/philosophical assumptions. CLA uses aspects of the environment, task, and actors (players e.g.) to bring about perceptual information for the actor to adapt their behaviors. That is, constraints are varied to explore perceptually what can be taken advantage of to guide one's behavior. Currently focusing on handball but other sports (as well as the more general theoretical approach) are also of interest.

Turns out it is not all in your brain, quite the opposite, if you want to guide, change, improve, and adapt your behavior you will do well if you figure out what your body does with respect to how the environment changes. For coaches, the question changes to 'how to structure the world around your players to bring about the movements and behaviors you want to produce', avoiding giving specific solutions that may not fit individual players and instead allows players to freely find how to move their body to accomplish the goal of a task and increase performance.