Michael Neill talks with Denise Holland about pressure? How is it sportspeople often comment that they need to feel under pressure to be able to perform well? What’s going on with this perspective and is it healthy? Is feeling under pressure helpful to athletes? What happens to the physical body and mind when human beings continuously feel under attack, threatened, or …
051 – Michael Neill – Sustainable High Performance in Sport (Pt 2/5)
Denise Holland talks with Michael Neill about match point situations, in the heat of the moment, when it is highly likely that athletes get caught up in a lot of thinking, how helpful is this ‘Understanding of the Mind? Also on this show, Michael shares his wisdom about ‘Talent Identification and Development’ – How useful is it to focus …
050 – Michael Neill – Creating The Impossible (Pt 1/5)
Special guest Michael Neill is an internally renowned transformative coach and the best-selling author of six books including, The Inside Out Revolution and, The Space Within. Here Michael explains the inspiration behind writing his new book, Creating The Impossible. “It’s easier for people to create what they actually want than what they think they can get – it brings …
049 – Dealing and Coping With Disappointed Athletes
It is very common for coaches to feel bad when their athletes suffer disappointments, so what’s the best way to deal and cope with this situation when it arises? Denise used to use techniques and rational thinking to help the Scotland National athletes, ‘park it’ so that they could quickly learn from poor performances and plan for the next one. …
048 – Rudiger Kennard – Perception, A Construction Not An Instruction
Rudi and Denise talk about a behavioural performance model; that dealing and working on poor behaviours, with consequences, and discipline procedures are missing the point, i.e. it is too late by then as all responses are an effect of a person’s state of mind in the moment and not the cause of the problem. Whatever people think, it is going …
047 – Rudiger Kennard – Talent Identification (Pt 4/5)
Traditionally, we identify talented athletes as those who demonstrate attributes, i.e. being self-determined, keen willingness to learn, capacity to overcome adversity, self-less, highly driven, ability to self-analyse, and be self-motivated etc. If you were to truly understand that experience is created from within and projected out as our separate realities and is not caused by the situation or circumstances, how …
046 – Rudiger Kennard – Insight v knowledge Based Learning – (Pt 3/5)
The subject of adaptation is widely researched and discussed, especially in the field of sport. Many people resonate with knowledge-based, application of tools and techniques which appears to result in change over time. Few, however, refer to the sustainable transformations, which happen naturally, when a person experiences an insight or deep realisation. Rudi Kennard and Denise Holland, look beyond information to develop …
045 – Rudiger Kennard – Everest Base Camp (Pt 2/5)
It is difficult to conceive as humans the notion that, we (the person) are not in charge and that we connect to a higher power in us, which seems to have life unfold perfectly. Sydney Banks author of the Missing Link referred to this phenomenon as the IS-ness. Many questions arise, including, what’s the point then, if we are merely …
044 – Former contestant of the BBC show ‘Gladiators’ Rudiger Kennard – ‘Unconditional Experience’ (Pt 1/4)
Why would sportspeople want to look in the direction of understanding the formless nature of life and experience? What is the potential impact on performance results when you start to understand how the human mind works? As a former contestant on the BBC show ‘Gladiators’ Rudi shares how his mental stamina was not on par with his physical prowess, which …
043 – Take Me Out – Authentic Connection
Denise auditions for the reality TV show, ‘Take Me Out’. Amused by the prospect of winning a date on the magical Island of Fernando’s, she went along with the fascinating questioning, the best and easiest to answer, was ‘what is your biggest turn-off’? Answer – A chap who is never present? During the past five years, Denise has seen beautiful …