The Performance Psychcast

By: Greg Parry & George Mitchell
  • Summary

  • Welcome to our podcast around the mental side of performance, both in sport and business. Your hosts are Greg Parry from Arcope and George Mitchell from FocusPerform. Here we will speak to a variety of guests such as sportspeople, sports psychologists, members of the army, businesspeople, so basically anywhere where psychology can be applied to mental health and performance. We are hoping to shed a light on what it is like to work in performance psychology and how it can be applied to the individual and the real world. www.arcope.co.uk www.focusperform.co.uk
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  • The Performance Psychcast - Episode 54 - The Role of High-Performance Environments in Mental Health - Professor Kristoffer Henriksen
    Jan 27 2025

    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

    Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

    George: www.focuperform.co.uk

    The online directory of sport performance specialists. Sportingbounce helps connect specialists in sport psychology, nutrition, sports massage, injury rehabilitation, coaching, and fitness training s with clients. With a daily spend on Google Adwords, social media advertising, and excellent organic rankings on search engines your business will get found on sporting bounce. Visit sportingbounce.com to find out how sporting bounce can help you. Don’t forget that listeners of this podcast can get 50%

    off the Premium membership package by entering the code performance, that’s “PERFORMANCE” meaning you get the best possible coverage for less than 20 pence a day!

    #focusperform #arcope #sport #performance #pressure #psychology #stress #anxiety #motivation #confidence #coaching #podcast #podcastsofinsta #business #performance #ThePerformancePsychcast #support #toughconversations #mind #sportingbounce #appliedpractitioner #science #sport #flow #football #coaching #academy #mentalhealth #environment

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    51 mins
  • The Performance Psychcast - Episode 53 - Commonwealth Medalist to Working in Sports Coaching and Business - Colin Wilson
    Dec 23 2024

    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: info@businessathlete.co.uk

    Greg: www.arcope.co.uk

    George: www.focuperform.co.uk

    The online directory of sport performance specialists. Sportingbounce helps connect specialists in sport psychology, nutrition, sports massage, injury rehabilitation, coaching, and fitness training s with clients. With a daily spend on Google Adwords, social media advertising, and excellent organic rankings on search engines your business will get found on sporting bounce. Visit sportingbounce.com to find out how sporting bounce can help you. Don’t forget that listeners of this podcast can get 50%

    off the Premium membership package by entering the code performance, that’s “PERFORMANCE” meaning you get the best possible coverage for less than 20 pence a day!

    #focusperform #arcope #sport #performance #pressure #psychology #stress #anxiety #motivation #confidence #coaching #podcast #podcastsofinsta #business #performance #ThePerformancePsychcast #support #toughconversations #mind #sportingbounce #appliedpractitioner #science #sport #flow #football #coaching #academy

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • The Performance Psychcast - Episode 52 - Cognitive Development in Football Players - Kris O'Hare
    Dec 2 2024

    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.

    The online directory of sport performance specialists. Sportingbounce helps connect specialists in sport psychology, nutrition, sports massage, injury rehabilitation, coaching, and fitness training s with clients. With a daily spend on Google Adwords, social media advertising, and excellent organic rankings on search engines your business will get found on sporting bounce. Visit sportingbounce.com to find out how sporting bounce can help you. Don’t forget that listeners of this podcast can get 50%

    off the Premium membership package by entering the code performance, that’s “PERFORMANCE” meaning you get the best possible coverage for less than 20 pence a day!

    #focusperform #arcope #sport #performance #pressure #psychology #stress #anxiety #motivation #confidence #coaching #podcast #podcastsofinsta #business #performance #ThePerformancePsychcast #support #toughconversations #mind #sportingbounce #appliedpractitioner #science #sport #flow #football #coaching #academy

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    1 hr and 5 mins

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