Monthly Archive for May, 2016

The learning virtuous circle

Old coach’s quiz

What do you want to become good?

Often we, as psychologists, are confronted with excellence, in sport as in other professionale fields, and the question I ask myself is how much excellent I am in my performance. Years ago the first to ask me this question was John Salmela, a great friend and colleague. In fact, he used to ask his students: “How much do you want to become good? Want to be mostly good psychologist in your neighborhood? Or in your town or even more?” It might seem like a rhetorical question, but concerns our expectations and our goals.
What I want to become good has to do with:
• the skills I want to acquire
• the time I want to devote to this occupation
•  the network I want to create to achieve my goals
• my persistence in the face of difficulties
• the belief of being able to deal with any situations
• understanding of what it wants the sports world to which I turn
• the time dedicated to continuous improvement, no matter how obtained until then
If we are not able to provide constructive answers to these questions, we could not understand the excellence and even less help ourselves to reach it in our work.

Workshop of Sport Psychology

Skill + motivation + attitude = success

Skill is what you’re capable of doing.

Motivation determines what you do.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

(Lou Holtz)

and remember:

Soccer school for children with intellectual disabilities

The project Calcio Insieme, promoted by Roma Cares Foundation in collaboration with the sport association Accademia di Calcio Integrato, has the aim to promote the motor and the football teaching in young people between 6 and 12 years with intellectual disabilities in order to improve the  quality of their lives through the ongoing practice of sport, to teach a model of football adequate for them and to build a community in which school, families, sports organization and staff can be feel part of a common project centered on children with intellectual disabilities. The purpose of the project is to create the conditions to promote the empowerment of everyone regardless of their starting skills, as it has been defined by the nternational Paralympic Committee.
Currently participating in the program 30 children, including 3 girls, 10 football  instructors, 4 sports psychologists, 1 speech therapist, 1 sport physician, in addition to: technical director, responsible for relations with schools and families, scientific director, journalist , project manager and administration. At the end of this first year we will be published the results achieved regarding the motor aspects, football learning and psychosocial children.

Three common mental mistakes did by golfers

Three common mistakes did by golfers

• The athletes’ skill to direct attention toward the appropriate stimuli is often taken for granted
• Being physically fit and mechanically perform own routine does not mean to be focused
• Be focused or be able to refocus on the target after one mistake it’s difficult even for experienced players

This happens because the ability to stay focused, to respond promptly to the difficulties and to be accurte and effective in carrying out the answers to these situations is one of the main golf problems.

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The golf concentration

Among the others presentations there will be my communication titled “The golf concentration”

(Italiano) Strategie vincenti per allenatori di successo

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.