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The Mind Room — 85 episodes

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1

How to establish yourself as a Premier League psychologist

2

The psychology hangover: how the World Cup will shape the season ahead

3

Three ways to take sport psychology from textbook to the training pitch (with Professor Adam Nicholls)

4

The World Cup Psychology Show: why Tuchel's comments show England's 'psychologically safe' environment and how to mentally prepare for meeting Messi

5

The World Cup Psychology Show: England vs Mexico - Saka's focus, Pickford's emotional regulation and why being 'under the cosh' can create collective flow

6

How to handle the heat of World Cup knockout matches

7

The World Cup Psychology Show: England vs DR Congo - dealing with shock, managing danger and preparing to play at high-altitude

8

How to integrate psychology within performance analysis (and why it's so tricky)

9

The World Cup Psychology Show: England vs Ghana - 'never too high, never too low'

10

The World Cup Psychology Show: how did England engineer that second half display against Croatia?

11

How to build better performance lifestyle-sport psychology partnerships (and why it's increasingly critical)

12

The World Cup Psychology Show: are England mentally ready to win the World Cup?

13

How to psychologically prepare for a major tournament (with Jess Thom)

14

How a mental performance programme helped Bodo/Glimt make history (with Bjorn Mannsverk)

15

How to work with performance and sporting directors (with James Bell)

16

Why 'relational connections' are your team's missing link (and how to create them)

17

How to fix sport psychology's 'quick fix' problem

18

How to setup and run a sport psychology lab

19

Exclusive: Michael Caulfield on why conversation trumps convention, sport psychology 'salespeople' and the profession's future

20

What players want from psychologists

21

Inside Australia's national wellbeing system

22

Why mental health support for African players needs to change

23

From the Ryder Cup to Wigan: inside the psychologist-team leader relationship (with Tom Young) - Part 2

24

From the Ryder Cup to Wigan: inside the psychologist-team leader relationship (with Tom Young) - Part 1

25

Exclusive: Building Chelsea's sport science & psychology setup (with Tim Harkness) - Part 2

26

How to integrate sport psychology across an elite environment (with Sara Symington)

27

Exclusive: Building Chelsea's sport science & psychology setup (with Tim Harkness) - Part 1

28

How To Psychologically Prepare For The Ryder Cup

29

Sport Psychology Snapshot

30

How sport psychologists can influence coach recruitment

31

How to recover from severe sporting setbacks

32

What coaches want from psychologists

33

Why sport psychology's next generation need a new skillset

34

England vs India: psychologically preparing for the Oval Test

35

Who's taking responsibility for footballers' mental health?

36

Sports teams' organisational design dilemma

37

How can clubs help players manage mental fatigue?

38

How to help players establish an identity

39

Why 'PlayStation coaching' needs to stop

40

The Key Psychological Characteristics and Skills Driving Elite Football Performance

41

How clubs are coaching cognitive skills

42

Sport psychology's 'scientist-practitioner' problem

43

Andrea Furst: 'I work with coaches that care about people'

44

How a 'sport psychology canvas' can help psychologists and backroom teams

45

How will AI shape the future of sport?

46

Inside the NBA's mental health & performance program

47

Why coaches should be thinking about 'psycho-social' skills and characteristics

48

John Amaechi: 'Athletes are ripe for exploitation'

49

How to setup a mental health support system in a pro sport league

50

How half-time team talks are changing

51

Does sport psychology have an access and inclusion problem?

52

'I had an opportunity to redefine what I do': the para rower and architect designing a route to the Paralympics and accessible sports facilities

53

'Coaching is more challenging than it's ever been'

54

'A lot of athletes have a skewed perception of what it is to be a person versus what it is to be a commodity'

55

'When you have 5 minutes and $50m on the line, 'it depends' doesn't work'

56

'Athletes don't have to be super competitive, super ruthless and win at all costs'

57

Karl Marius Aksum on transferring psychology theory from the classroom to the pitch

58

How do you psychologically prepare for the Olympics?

59

'It's messy': Alex Auerbach on sport psychology regulation, gaining coach buy-in and mental health support in the NBA

60

'We're throwing players into a stress cage without protecting them': why football needs to mentally prepare players for penalties

61

‘We’ve changed the club’: is it really possible to transform a Premier League team's culture?

62

Introducing The Mind Room - the football psychology newsletter

63

Euro 2022 preview: how to psychologically prepare for a major tournament final

64

The coach-psychologist relationship - Richard Dobson and Dr Misia Gervis

65

The emotional impact of going on loan, adding psychologists to EPL coaching teams and the elements of successful leadership

66

The psychology of the play-offs, managers’ motivational stunts and the power of celebrating

67

Professor João Carvalhaes - football’s first World Cup-winning psychologist

68

Dealing with off-pitch problems, pressurising players to return from injury and the power of psychology

69

City vs United, the pressure of the run-in and penalty shootout psychology

70

City vs Spurs, manager negativity and Eriksen’s return

71

Bonus episode: an interview with David Busst

72

Playing without fear

73

Checking the emotional barometer

74

Getting comfy with the uncontrollable

75

Creating a club culture (with Gareth Ainsworth and Richard Dobson)

76

Player care (with Hugo Scheckter)

77

Chelsea‘s ‘psychological coding‘ programme (with Malcolm Harkness)

78

The psychology behind Chelsea‘s double-winning side (with Dr Bruno Demichelis)

79

AC Milan‘s ‘Mind Room‘: Italian football‘s first psychology lab (with Dr Bruno Demichelis)

80

Psychological characteristics of the ‘perfect footballer‘ (with Simon Clifford)

81

The impact of sleep on performance (with Nick Littlehales, ‘The Sport Sleep Coach‘)

82

The impact of stress on performance (with Professor Marc Jones)

83

The ‘biggest psychology programme in Europe‘ (with Richard Dobson)

84

Managers‘ mental health (with Mike Calvin)

85

Recovering from long term injuries (with Dr Misia Gervis)