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Technique, Tactics, Mental Skills: Which are more important?

Derek Tate

Oct 26, 20225 min read

Technique, Tactics, Mental Skills: Which are more important?

This blog explores how a more holistic approach can be taken to performance development in skiing and snowboarding.

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What can positive psychology bring to sports psychology?

Derek Tate

Jul 15, 20223 min read

What can positive psychology bring to sports psychology?

Combining the best of sports psychology with positive psychology can lead to better mental skills training and long-term athlete wellbeing.

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How can you help others achieve flow? And why does it matter?

Derek Tate

Apr 29, 20224 min read

How can you help others achieve flow? And why does it matter?

Is there a way that you can help others improve their performance, enhance their wellbeing and evolve as better individuals? YES. Read on...

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Derek Tate

Nov 3, 20217 min read

Just tell me what I'm doing wrong...

This is one of the most common type of phrases I have heard learners say and it is such a 'negative' way to begin a lesson.

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Derek Tate

Aug 4, 20214 min read

A winning mindset

Cultivating the right kind of winning mindset in sport can help with other areas of life because mindsets are transferable.

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Being truly learner centred in snowsports: What are their needs?

Derek Tate

Mar 3, 20214 min read

Being truly learner centred in snowsports: What are their needs?

What does it mean to be truly learner centred? What are their needs and how do we address them in the snowsport environment where we work?

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Derek Tate

Jan 1, 20215 min read

Flow and the art of performance

It is not enough to just know about and understand flow as achieving this state is deeply embedded in how you learn from the outset.

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Derek Tate

Dec 28, 20207 min read

What are flow activities?

My advice is to treat discovering your 'flow activities' in the same way as the athlete approaches developing a pre-competition strategy.

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Derek Tate

Nov 23, 20205 min read

FLOW CAN IMPROVE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

Experiencing 'flow' on a regular basis can contribute to better mental health. As a flow researcher, blogger, author and a facilitator of...

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Derek Tate

Oct 28, 20203 min read

Help in challenging times and beyond

Learn, Enjoy, Flow & Grow (LEFG) is essentially a 'coaching method' for the self or those with whom you work.

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Derek Tate

Jul 13, 20202 min read

Introducing the Learning Hub

The concept of the Learning Hub is very simple: to provide a wealth of resources to support you in your learning pre, during and post event.

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COVID-19: Prompting change and re-invention

Derek Tate

Jun 24, 20203 min read

COVID-19: Prompting change and re-invention

The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly been a very challenging time for so many people

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Facilitating flow: How the foundations interact during task performance

Derek Tate

Jun 11, 20203 min read

Facilitating flow: How the foundations interact during task performance

As a coach how do you go about creating a 'setting' for your learners whereby their chances of entering a flow state are increased?

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Hope: The fuel for strength and courage in challenging times

Derek Tate

Apr 3, 20206 min read

Hope: The fuel for strength and courage in challenging times

I began what can only be described as a process of grieving. My office had been taken away from me!!

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Derek Tate

Feb 25, 20203 min read

The evolving brand: Parallel Dreams Coaching Academy

It's far more than a change to our name. It is a development of who we are and what we do!

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Register now for the Sports Coaching Conference

Derek Tate

Feb 1, 20202 min read

Delegate registrations are now OPEN!

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Derek Tate

Jan 1, 20201 min read

Sports Coaching Conference 2020

1st Sports Coaching Conference: Health & Well-Being through Sport and Mountain Life, organised by Parallel Dreams Coaching Academy.

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Developing Flow for ski instructors and their guests

Derek Tate

Dec 21, 20193 min read

Developing Flow for ski instructors and their guests

Irrespective of whether learners enter a flow state the four foundations represent a great teaching and learning connection

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Learning zones - part 2: Mapping learning zones onto the Diamond Model of Skill Acquisition

Derek Tate

Oct 20, 20199 min read

Learning zones - part 2: Mapping learning zones onto the Diamond Model of Skill Acquisition

Part 2 of discusses more deeply how 'Learning Zones' map across to the stages within the 'Diamond Model of Skill Acquisition'.

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Combining Strengths with Flow in the workplace

Derek Tate

Oct 10, 20195 min read

Combining Strengths with Flow in the workplace

Strengths are things that you are good at and you enjoy doing while flow involves being fully focused on the task at hand and is pleasurable

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