The Performance Psychcast

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Niels Feddersen.

Niels Feddersen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Teacher Education and Outdoor Studies at NIH. His background includes an MSc in sports psychology and sociology from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and a Ph.D. in organizational psychology in sports organizations from Liverpool John Moores University (Liverpool, UK).

Niels has examined how organizational culture changes over time by focusing on subtle power relations. He has also outlined how destructive cultures develop in elite sports organizations and how individuals who break rules and norms can be reintegrated. This is in addition to many other research areas.

In this podcast we discuss Niels, Francesca and Martin's recent research - The Sport Psychology Canvas: Designing, Adapting, and Documenting Sport Psychology Provisions in Men's Football Academies in England.

Feddersen, Niels Boysen; Champ, Francesca & Littlewood, Martin A. (2025).The Sport Psychology Canvas: Designing, Adapting, and Documenting Sport Psychology Provisions in Men's Football Academies in England.Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. ISSN 1041-3200. doi: 10.1080/10413200.2024.2446206.

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Brian Hemmings.

Brian has 30 years of experience in sport psychology consultancy. Working full-time in private practice since 2006, he is an author/editor of 5 books, 17 book chapters, and over 40 research papers.

Having a world profile in golf psychology, he was the lead psychologist to England golf for 17 years, and has worked extensively across male and female professional tours. In golf coach education, Brian's online Golf Psychology Coaching Certificate (www.golfpsychologycoaching.com) has been completed by over 1000 coaches/psychologists worldwide, and it is now translated into German, Spanish and South Korean. Brian has hosted 4 national golf psychology conferences, runs masterclasses, and has been a keynote speaker at five PGA National Conferences across Europe. He has also presented and given workshops internationally in the USA, Hong Kong, China, India, Australia, South Korea, Austria, Germany, Holland and Italy. www.golfmind.co.uk

Brian also has a wealth of experience in numerous other sports, for example in professional cricket, Olympic and Commonwealth Games boxing, and motorsport including Formula 1/LeMans.

Brian gained his PhD in sport psychology from the University of Southampton in 1998; and has mentored/supervised over 50 sport psychologists in the last 25 years. In 2010 he was awarded a Fellowship by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences in recognition of 'esteemed personal achievement, skills, knowledge and service to BASES and the sport and exercise science community'.

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Episode 54

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Professor Kristoffer Henriksen.

Kristoffer Henriksen is a professor at the Institute of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark. His research in sport psychology takes a holistic approach and looks at social relations and their influence on athlete development and performance with an emphasis on successful talent development environments. His employment includes a specialised function as a sport psychology practitioner in Team Denmark (national elite sport institution) including support at World Championships and the Olympic Games with a focus on developing high performance cultures in national teams and mentally strong athletes and coaches. In this podcast we discuss the role of high performance sport environments in mental health.

Research Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1612197X.2024.2437923

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Colin Wilson.

Colin Wilson started his performance and coaching journey in sport from age nine, winning national and international age-group medals in Table Tennis from the age of 13, and two Commonwealth silvers, aged just 16.

Colin was always curious from a young age, and fascinated by questions like, "Where does High Performance Really Come From?". As a result of having two amazing sport-specific and philosophical mentors, Colin became a coach educator age 19. He coached England Women, Men, Girls and Boys and later his son Sam became England Under 21s No. 1.

After gaining an Economics and Statistics Honours degree at UCL, he was asked to help coaches and coaching programmes in other sports too and worked on sport-wide development programmes in partnership with BASES, UK Sport, sportscoachUK (now UK Coaching) and the British Olympic Association. Working to develop Olympic level coaches was another wonderful opportunity and a further vertical learning curve.

With further fantastic mentors and training in traumatology and psychodynamics he bridged the journey to becoming an executive coach and organisational leadership developer, and was invited to support Nokia, BT Global, HSBC, Barclays, Delphi, Unilever, a major political party, and more. He now specialises in developing senior leadership capability and supporting multi-stakeholder, multi-agency situations with significant human dynamics.

Ultimately, he relishes helping people and teams to find themselves, their best direction/strategy and their optimal, adaptable development path over time to fulfil their desired aims.

Colin's Website: https://www.businessathlete.co.uk/index.php/about/

Email: [email protected]

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Kris O'Hare.

Kris is a football coach and a Sports psychologist with a distinct emphasis on making players more intelligent and specific concentration on how to make and improve in game intelligence. Kris works within a football academy in Spain and we enjoy a conversation around Spanish football coaching too.

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with David Durand.

David Durand is a sports performance and psychology coach. His background and training is in clinical psychology, while he also has a strength and conditioning certification from the NSCA and a mental performance consultant certification from the AASP.

His business, Real Development LLC, offers sports training services that combine mental, physical, and skill development for athletes. David focuses on helping individuals develop through a holistic perspective that increases their long-term potential rather than over emphasizing short-term success.

His new book, B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond, is a guide for coaches looking to make a difference in modern athletes' lives by understanding their brains and bodies on a deeper level and equipping them with tools to increase their health, well-being, and performance.

https://www.amazon.com/B-T-Psychological-Approach-Coaching/dp/B0DB6SFDRK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3NUQJJCKPWGMG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eoaf9FTSjdtYtTMZE78B8ettggUH6hP5Xd8Et6UOi1MWliBOfilpx9uhNBwUz7zBRIiEpSUgzh01s4g_h5U7d856oXNi6J2FDDpUqgGwHfA.nHVlSaU_r8iqkSfsGvpBJyUcFFkTms88aCfs6sJfjqM&dib_tag=se&keywords=bet+on+it+a+psychological+approach&qid=1722423966&sprefix=%2Caps%2C112&sr=8-1

And here's the study referenced in the podcast:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2799812#:~:text=Motivated%20by%20the%20anticipation%20of,brain%20responds%20to%20its%20environment.

Citation: Maza MT, Fox KA, Kwon S, et al. Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on Social Media With Longitudinal Functional Brain Development. JAMA Pediatr. 2023;177(2):160–167. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.4924

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Episode 50

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast.

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Melissa Dhillon.

Accredited Sports & Exercise Scientist (Psychology) Owner & Performance Psychologist of Athletes InThe Zone

Melissa's deep-rooted passion for psychology came from her tennis career as an LTA player. Additionally, her curiosity stemmed further into psychology by wanting to understand human thoughts, behaviours and emotions to become the greatest. Her driving force is to become the best version of herself in all parts of her life. Melissa believes psychology is a huge part of our lives. She continues to explain that our mindsets impact our successes and failures. Our mindset matters because it directs our lives.

Melissa provides every athlete with supreme levels of confidence, resilience, focus and optimism that enhance their inspired performances.

Melissa is the driving force behind her Performance Psychology consultancy, "Athletes In the Zone", which holds seven national and international partnerships with esteemed organizations in elite sports and business. Melissa's elite sports and high-performance business collaborations: - Birmingham City Women's & Girls FC - University of Warwick - Salford City FC - Birmingham City University - International Tennis Federation (ITF) - Julius Baer - Circle Rehabilitation - Aston Villa FC Foundation Privately, Melissa works with ITF & LTA players and academy footballer players. She has successfully worked with English League footballers, Alps Tour golfers and British gymnasts.

Melissa's vision is to inspire individuals to be the best version of themselves.

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Alex Diaz.

Dr. Alex Diaz is a licensed psychotherapist and a Certified Performance Coach with over 25 years of experience providing mindset strategies. His Clinical Psychology degree focused on the Relationship between Mental Toughness and Body Awareness in Collegiate Athletes. Dr. Diaz provides mental wellness support to athletes and non-athletes seeking coping skills to manage the highly stressful demands of sports performance and personal life. He teaches emotional resilience using neuroscience-based strategies thatpromote emotional regulation, stress management, andattention awareness.

Dr. Diaz conducts his work in private practice in New York. He is listed in the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the NFL Player Association Mental Health Registry Directory. Dr. Diaz has spoken and written about sport psychology and mental wellnessstrategies, stress management, injury rehabilitation, team building, motivation, post-concussionrehabilitation, and coach-athlete relationships.

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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Michael Passaportis and Dr Dan Brown.

Michael Passportis is a lecturer in sport and exercise psychology at the University of Sussex. He teaches and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students on topics such as stress, coping, motivation, and emotion in sport. He also conducts and publishes research on the psychosocial factors that influence thriving in elite sport organisations.

As a sport and exercise psychologist in training, he provides tailored psychological support to individuals, teams, and organisations who want to reach their full potential and thrive in their sporting pursuits. Drawing on established psychological principles and his personal experiences of elite sport performance, he works collaboratively with clients to improve their understanding of how their psychological functioning affects their performance and well-being.

Dan Brown is a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Dan joined the University of Portsmouth in 2017. He completed a BSc (Hons) Psychology at the University of Bath, an MSc Psychology of Sport and Exercise at Loughborough University, and received his PhD from the University of Bath.

Dan's doctoral research focussed on developing an understanding of thriving in humans and the application of this knowledge to sport performers.

Dan's current research centres on the psychology of human excellence and well-being. Specifically, his work focuses on understanding and facilitating thriving in humans, athlete transitions and developmental experiences, and the development and assessment of interventions used in sport and performance psychology.

Michael: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-passo/

Dan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-brown-38248739/

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