Tackle Your Feelings Program Psychologist Guy Little looks at the key considerations when providing feedback to players in-game.
Coaches have told me that they wear many hats – first-aider, guider, director, trainer, mentor (the list goes on), and therapist. The therapist hat, however, doesn’t have to be one of them, but a therapeutic hat may be a much better fit. So, what’s the difference between being a therapist and being therapeutic? This blog is going to tease out the difference.
As heads hang after the sirens, players are likely to feel a range of emotions. As a coach, how do you make sense of the players’ experiences and what can you do to help them?
Mindfulness is all the rage lately. Coaches, athletes, trainers, and psychologists talk about the use of mindfulness in footy. But what is mindfulness? What is its connection with footy? This blog will take a dive into mindfulness and its connection with sport performance.
Tackle Your Feelings visited Alice Springs to present the program to community football coaches from the local area.
Just like aspects of our game, from time-to-time, our sleep needs a bit of work. And just as we need...
We can spend (on average), up to one third of our life asleep. This is probably just a little more than we spend coaching or playing footy! Perhaps you’ve heard that sleep is important for physical recovery after a game or training, as well as for mental readiness before a game, but is sleep important to mental health as well? If it is, how important is it?
I’m sure, like me, you’ve had many challenging conversations in your lifetime. Some that have gone well and others that...