Supporting children, teenagers and young adults to manage emotions is vital for success in sport. Our resources help parents and coaches understand how to guide children who react with tantrums, tears, or aggressive behaviour when things go wrong. Emotional outbursts often stem from frustration, mistakes, or refereeing decisions. Learn how to help your child develop resilience, regulate emotions, and bounce back positively from setbacks in sport.
13 December 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How to Overcome Self-intimidation A great way to ensure that you start a match “one-nil down” is to place too much emphasis on your opponents. Many football and soccer players do, they scroll social media and the internet for snippets of information before their …
Rehabilitation And Returning To Sport: How To Support Injured Athletes Dr Carl Bescoby is an injury psychologist working at the intersection of injury, health, wellbeing, and performance. Carl works with injured athletes & performers through one-to-one consultancy and provides group workshops/psychoeducation to help cultivate a greater awareness of the psychosocial components of injury and rehabilitation …
1 November 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How to Help Emotional Football Players Stay in Control Welcome back to our third X-FACTOR email where we look to help the footballer who struggles with his or her emotions on the football or soccer pitch. When we think about anger on the football …
1 November 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances Stop the Mind Reading on the Football Pitch so That you Perform Better Welcome back to our second X-FACTOR email. Depending on your role in the team your job will naturally be different. For example, for a defender it could be argued that stopping …
18 October 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances Introducing You to Football Psychology so That You Perform Better A warm welcome to our first X-FACTOR email. Let me introduce our concept firstly, we aim to deliver lots of detailed guidance, how to information to footballers, football coaches and football parents around the …
Task vs Ego Involvement: Do You Set Goals That Harm Your Performances? By working with David Charlton, you and your organisation will be better equipped to rise to modern day challenges and better informed to thrive on and off the pitch, course or court. Where he inspires individuals and teams to: Cope with pressure and challenges …
Gymnastics Psychology Tips: How to Handle Losing Your Skills in Gymnastics Is this very common problem an issue for you? Gymnastics is a constant ebb and flow for gymnasts. One second everything seems perfect and the next it all comes crashing down. It could a bad competition, bad training or sudden block a gymnast faces …
Combat Sports Psychology Tips: Mental Preparation for Combat Sports Many fighters get in their own way before and during fights As a fighter, you’ll be well aware that one mistake from you could mean that the fight is over quickly or that a combination of errors can put you on the back foot. In …
Youth Sports Psychology Tips: How do I Help my Child to Focus in Sports? Concentration can be very difficult for many children “Come on son, concentrate”, “The game is passing you by”, “What are you doing?” are phrases used by sport parents and coaches frequently. How often do you here this or something similar? Often!! …
Youth Sports Psychology Tips: How to Support an Angry Young Athlete Anger is generally viewed negatively BUT… When we’re young, as children we often bite, push, shove, hit, kick and throw things in a rage. They’re normal behaviours that simply come with the territory of being a young child or infant. This is often the …