USA Rugby Partnership

Written by Adam Morris

Today we are proud to announce the launch of our brand new partnership with USA Rugby. As part of this exciting partnership we have joined forces with USA Rugby to become their official Performance Psychology, Well-Being and Mental Health Provider to their National Teams and registered members. Mental health support for athletes and coaches has been at the heart of everything that we have focused on for the last 8 years. We have strived to not only provide people with coping skills that can support better mental health habits but we have also spent our energy and time on creating...

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BelievePerform and USA Field Hockey Partnership

Today we are proud to announce the launch of our partnership with USA Field Hockey. For the last 8 years our mission has been focused around supporting the sport community with high quality performance psychology and mental health content. Three key audiences which have been at the heart of our focus...

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BelievePerform and SportsAid Partnership

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How elite athletes can personally maximise their mental health and performance

Everyone aspires to feel fulfilment (5). Through life you will face challenging situations which are demanding and stressful. Every athlete fails, gets injured, experiences negative life events and retires. Some individuals have the capability to overcome these challenges, and others cannot cope and they suffer. The athletes that do not...

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UK Coaching Partnership

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REBT in Sport

Rational beliefs: “It will be pretty tough for me for the next few days, but I will get over it, I will be fine...There are a lot worse things that can happen in your life. Shooting a bad score in the last round of a golf tournament is nothing in...

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What type of motivational climate is just right?

According to Nicholls’ (1984) individuals are either task-involved; meaning they are concerned with their own personal improvement and they seek skill mastery, or ego-involved, in which they judge their own success in comparison to others. Existing literature (see Cury, Biddle, Sarrazin, & Famose,1997; Van-Yperen & Duda,1999) shows that there is...

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Transforming Coaching Award - supported by Believe Perform

At the UK Coaching Awards 2019, BelievePerform is proud to support the Transforming Coaching Award, which recognises an organisation that is transforming coaching to enhance the development and well-being of people providing and receiving great coaching. The prestigious showpiece event will be held at The Tower Hotel London on the 5...

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The ‘Fine Line’ in Perfectionism

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Talent that shouts and talent that whispers

I saw a picture doing the rounds on Twitter this week of a U15 match for Ajax vs. Sparta Rotterdam where one boy looks almost fully developed and the other boy doesn’t. It got me thinking about the Relative Age Effect (RAE), this is the phenomenon that sees children born...