Believe Move Grow

Welcome back to the believe move grow podcast!  I am back with a great episode from a guest I’ve been looking forward to chatting to for some time!  Today’s episodes theme will explore the notion of play and creativity in young people.  There are many, many coaches but how do you coach to inspire and motivate?  To answer this question, I invited along Richard Cheetham MBE, who is a Senior Fellow in Sports Coaching at the University of Winchester.  Richard has developed a strong reputation on creative thinking and innovation within coach education and development and a real passion for the power of play.    In todays, conversation with Richard, we discussed how coaching is a process of letting go, how you can write  a story together without losing sight of the end goal, the power of co-creation in coaching, how creativity is a mind set free and much more!  So without further ado please enjoy my conversation with Richard Cheetham.

Resources

Twitter Richard: @twowheelprof

Richard website: Richard Cheetham MBE – Leading Coach Educator and Consultant

YouTube video: National Games Development Conference 2019 - Richard Cheetham

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Hi everyone and welcome back to the Believe Move Grow podcast. I’ve been on a mini hiatus but I’m back with a cracker of an episode!  Today’s episode is centred around the notion of teenage athletes’ mental fitness.  This is a timely episode with the increased prevalence of high-profile athletes opening about their mental health struggles.  I think it is key that those involved in a young athlete’s journey, including the athlete themselves, have an awareness of the importance to train the mind as well as the body.  My guest today is Josie Perry who is a Chartered Psychologist. Josie works with those in sport, on the stage and in business.  I invited Josie along to chat about her fantastic book ‘I Can: The Teenage Athletes Guide to Mental Fitness’.  In my conversation with Josie, we discussed how Josie prioritises wellbeing first and performance second, her personal experience with PE, self-identify in a youth athlete and the importance of young athletes being confident to ask questions. So, without further ado please enjoy my conversation with Josie Perry. 

Resources:

Josie Perry Twitter @Josephineperry  

Josie’s website: Performance In Mind

Josie’s book:I Can: The Teenage Athlete’s Guide to Mental Fitness

 

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Hi everyone and thanks for taking the time to join me today! Today’s topic is all about emotional regulation in youth academy football.   To highlight the degree of complexity in this area, I have pinched a quote from my guests PhD, from the influential scientist James Gross, which reads “The ambitious study of emotion has been described as trying to catch butterflies, only harder”. So, If you work with adolescents, or have adolescent children, then you will undoubtedly have encountered a pupil, athlete, son or daughter who is navigating  through this tumultuous time of emotional challenges.  The question is how do we mange these challenges and why do they occur in the first place? To answer these questions, my guest today is Dr Philippa McGregor, who is a performance psychology consultant, who has worked with youth players at Fulham FC, Man city FC and currently works with the U17 England Football Women’s team. Philippa wrote a great PhD titled ‘The development, implementation and evaluation of an emotion focussed intervention in youth academy football’.  In my conversation with Philippa, we discussed how well-being and performance are intertwined, focussing on the person first and foremost,  normalising emotional experiences and the emotional, cognitive and social challenges during the 3 stages of adolescence. I really hope you gain some nuggets from our conversation so without further ado please welcome Dr Philippa McGregor.  

Resources

Philippa McGregor twitter: @Philippa1606

Philippa's PhD:  The development, implementation and evaluation of an emotion-focused intervention in youth academy football (lboro.ac.uk)

Message in a bottle – life is a journey and full of highs and lows, embrace the ride, no limits on what you can achieve except the limits your put on yourself  

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Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Believe Move Grow podcast.  My guest today left me in awe with such a wise head on young shoulders.  I have been thinking how to sum up today’s guests journey and I found a simple yet powerful quote, which reads: No Rain No flowers.  I think we can all resonate with life experiences that initially looked unfavourable but fast forward to the near future and on looking back these negative experiences actually turn out to be perversely beneficial.  We can all learn from my guest today whose life journey speaks to the power of taking the positives out of negative situations and not letting such experiences define you as a person.  Georgia Martin has a diverse background having previously been an elite athlete for the British Rowing World Class START programme, during which she represented England and won the Henley Royal Regatta.  More recently due to injury, Georgia has completed a BSc in Sports Performance from Bath University and works as an ambassador for Kickoff@3 which is a charity that supports young people from all backgrounds through the medium of sport, music and other imaginative ideas.  Just a heads up here that in later in the chat Georgia mentions how to follow Kickoff@3 and their website is [email protected] not.co.uk.  In my chat with Georgia we discussed her early sporting career, re-discovering her identity outside of sport, how she used her sporting injury as a positive vs. a negative, and we finished by discussing kickoff@3 and their positive impact on young people.  So, without further ado please welcome Georgia Martin.    

Resources

Twitter Georgia: @Georgiamartin03

Instagram: georgiamartin2021

Kickoff@3

Twitter Kickoff@3: @KickOffAt3

Answer to question on what you would put as a message in a bottle to promote physical activity and mindset beliefs in children and young people “Try anything and keep going | Be the best you can be and no time like the present. 

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To quote Karen Horney “The perfect normal person is rare in our civilisation”. As a self-proclaimed perfectionist I am acutely aware as to how exhausting and unfulfilling this can be. Also, as a dad to two boys I wanted to chat with an expert on perfectionism and how we can gain some tips and tactics to help children navigate the world we live in which puts perfectionism and relentless work ethic on a pedestal. So if you have suffered with perfectionistic tendencies, have children who you think are showing signs of perfectionism or work with children in schools or sports teams then my guest today provides some great content in identifying and managing this personality trait. Dr Thomas Curran is a British Psychological Society chartered social psychologist with a primary area of expertise on the personality characteristic of perfectionism, how it develops, and how it impacts on mental health.  Tom has done a fantastic TED talk titled “our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse. In my chat with Tom we cover how perfectionism is a cultural phenomenon,  the difference between excellence and perfectionism, and discuss perfectionism in relation to the school system and social media and much more! So without further ado please welcome Dr Thomas Curran.

Resources

Tom Twitter: @thom_curran

Tom TED Talk:  Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse

Tom website: Thomas Curran

Book recommendation: The neurotic personality by Karen Horney

Animation recommendation: What's Up With Everyone? - Perfectionism

Message in a bottle to promote physical activity in children: "you are who you are and the person who you are is unique to you"

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Maria Montessori once said that “Education is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences”. From a personal standpoint I can fully resonate with this quote having two young boys and watching them blossom through experiential learning.  The pandemic and lockdowns have thrown up challenges for children to continue experientially learning with passive screen time being a real issue.  Out of this potential dark place shines a light that I discovered  over lockdown.  This bright light was called Cosmic Kids which is yoga for children, created and presented by the fantastic Jaime Amor! Jaimes’s backstory is fascinating having started off as an actor, then working as a children’s entertainer before qualifying as a yoga instructor.  Jaime’s assorted background has led to her creating Cosmic Kids which tells stories through Yoga and demonstrates an engaging , active and experiential way for children to physically move, learn about emotions, develop bodily awareness, all whilst having oodles of fun!  There is a serious, important theme that does run through Cosmic Kids in that it is developing children’s implicit learning as to how to be mindful and not mindless and in today’s passive social media consumption society, this is more important than ever.   In today’s chat Jaime spoke to how she uses stories to engage children, seeing the world through a child’s eyes, healthy active screen time, mindfulness. vs. mindlessness,  and the importance of children being connected to themselves vs. being disconnected. Jamie was a pleasure to have on the podcast and her energy and enthusiasm were infectious and I challenge you to not listen to this without a big, massive smile on your face!  So, without further ad, please welcome Jaime Amor from Cosmic kids! 

Resources

Instagram Cosmic Kids: cosmickidsyoga

Twitter Cosmic Kids: @CosmicKidsYoga

Cosmic kids website: Cosmic Kids

YouTube Cosmic Kids: Cosmic Kids Yoga - YouTube

- Book recommendation – Eastern Body for the Western Mind by Anodea Judith

- Answer to my question on what would you put in a message in a bottle to promote physical activity in children: stay calm, keep breathing and think positive

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I wanted to share a wonderful quote on physical literacy from Margaret Whitehead which reads “We shouldn’t be trying to make star athletes. Rather, we should mark the progress of our children’s journey’s. That way all children have the chance to lead a fully embodied life, no matter their abilities or physique, whether they like to be outside, or like sports. The intellectual, social and physical development of children are intertwined.”  So far on the podcast I have spoken to visionaries within the field of physical education, and it feels that a gradual paradigm shift is occurring in what it means for children to be physically educated, far removed from the outdated views of discipline and competition.  One of my previous guests Shaun Dowling, in episode 7, spoke of how the profession is going through its most significant catalytic time in the last 100 years.  If you are interested in what the future of physical education should look and sound like, then this episode delivers in spades. My guest today is very much at  the forefront of the narrative for continual evolution of the physical education curriculum.  Greg Dryer is a highly respected leader and authority in the field of physical education with a refreshing, positively contrarian viewpoint as to what constitutes a PE curriculum that is inclusive and available to all young people, irrespective of gender, culture, or race.  It is fair to say that Greg has been around the proverbial block when it comes to physical education, having been head of PE at three London schools and the brainchild for the School of Education, Centre for Physical Education, Sport and Activity at Kingston University.  In today’s episode we talked about how physical activity can enhance life quality, finding connections with a movement environment, what assessment looks like in physical education, the notion of commercialised sport vs. youth sport and much more. I was honoured to have this conversation with Greg, and I hope you enjoy absorbing his knowledge and wisdom. So, without further ado please welcome Greg Dryer.

Resources:

- Instagram Greg: greg_dryer and miMove

- Twitter Greg: @Greg_Dryer

Answer to my question on what would you put in a message in a bottle to promote physical activity in children “Just do it for the love of it”

Once again thank you for taking the time to listen. If you enjoyed todays conversation, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes as well as sharing with a friend or colleague who you think would benefit from the episode. It’s been great to hang out with you today and as always keep believing, moving, and growing! 

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To quote my guest today “Let’s not just simply exist but instead flourish in existence and I believe  physical activity to be an integral part of this”. Speaking from my personal experience as a physiotherapist, I have heard hundreds, if not thousands of times how many of my inactive adult patients have had a negative experience of physical education, which likely played a role in the life course of their participation in physical activity.  If you are anything like me, you may be curious as to why PE has historically been such a polarising subject with some children flourishing and others loathing the experience.  To unravel this polarity and also provide future solutions to tackle the inequities in physical education design, I invited along Liz Durden-Myers who is a senior lecturer in physical education.  Today’s episode zoom’s into how a physical literacy informed PE curriculum can encourage all children to flourish, not just the privileged few. Within our chat we covered a whole host of topics and took a deep dive into the 3 pillars of physical literacy, in monism, existentialism, and phenomenology and how we can use these philosophical underpinnings to shape a curriculum that unlocks every child’s embodied potential.  I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recoding it! So without further ado, please welcome Liz Durden-Myers.

Resources:

- Twitter Liz: @LizDurdenMyers

- Book recommendation – Physical Literacy Through the Life Course by Margaret Whitehead, The Genius of a Natural Childhood by Sally Goddard Blythe, Intelligence in the Flesh by Guy Claxton

- Message in a bottle - "Life is a marathon not a sprint, invest in you and your environment and the environment of others and prioritise the things that make you feel alive and make us human and capitalise on your own embodied  potential.  Lets not just simply exist but instead flourish in existence and I believe physical activity to be an integral part of this"  

Once again thank you for taking the time to listen. If you enjoyed todays conversation, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes as well as sharing with a friend or colleague who you think would benefit from the episode. It’s been great to hang out with you today and as always keep believing, moving, and growing! 

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As the great Lionel Messi once said, “It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success”. Lionel Messi is one of the greatest footballers of all time but was a classic late maturer in football and a rare exception to the rule of the early maturer bias in the world of youth sport.  Before we get into today’s episode, I want you to think whether you have ever personally experienced or even witnessed second-hand children playing sport against other children that look physically older than their age group? Have you wondered how this could be? Well, my episode today not only provides an answer to this question but also a solution to even up the playing field.  In this episode I chat with Sean Cummin who is internationally recognised as a leading expert on the subject of growth and maturation in sport and exercise.  In today’s conversation we explored a whole host of topics including the relative age effect, biological maturity, early specialisation, the female athlete triad, and bio-banding. Now, although sport is the main theme, I don’t want you to put off by this if you are non-sporty, as Sean’s principles can also be applied to parents who want to learn about the changes that their children will be experiencing during the growth and maturation phases. So, with all that said, let’s get into today’s episode with Sean Cummin.

Resources:

- Twitter Sean: @phd_sean

- Book recommendation – Growth and Maturation in Physical Activity by Robert Malina,  Little girls and pretty boxes by Joan Ryan

Once again thank you for taking the time to listen. If you enjoyed todays conversation, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes as well as sharing with a friend or colleague who you think would benefit from the episode. It’s been great to hang out with you today and as always keep believing, moving, and growing! 

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As the great Albert Einstein once said “I never teach my pupils, I only provide the conditions in which they can learn”. Classroom based learning in my opinion separates the body from the mind, whereas moving the classroom outside creates all sorts of new learning experiences for children in a variety of subjects.  My guest today founded a company initially named Maths of the Day in 2015, latterly to be re-branded as Teach Active in 2019 as it is known today. Jon Smedley gave birth to the idea of delivering the primary Maths and English curriculum through physical activity after his work in a school with poor Maths attainment and enjoyment towards the subject.  Fast forward to today and Jon has grown Teach Active to 3500 lesson plans reaching 1000 schools and along the way has picked up some awards including the Education Resources Award for Resource or Equipment of the year and The Education Show Award for School Resources and Equipment for Learning at the Bett Awards.  In Today’s conversation Jon explains all about Teach Active and how it can save teachers hours of time, which for the packed national curriculum is a bonus, how the active lessons allow for greater retainment  and recollection of information if learning is put into a game, and some wonderful, unexpected by-products including improved social skills, team-work, resilience, collaboration, improved behaviour and wanting to come to school!  So without further ado I have great pleasure in introducing Jon Smedley.    

Resources:

- Teach Active website: Teach Active - Active Maths & English Lessons

- Instagram: Teach Active: teachactive

- Twitter Teach Active: @TeachActive

- Book recommendation – Teaching With the Brain in Mind – Eric Jensen,  Spark - Jon Ratey.

Answer to my question on what would you put in a message in a bottle to promote physical activity in children “Active humans do better".

Once again thank you for taking the time to listen. If you enjoyed todays conversation, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes as well as sharing with a friend or colleague who you think would benefit from the episode. It’s been great to hang out with you today and as always keep believing, moving, and growing! 

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