Technique, Tactics, Mental Skills: Which are more important?
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Derek Tate
- Jul 15, 2022
- 3 min
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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Derek Tate
- Apr 29, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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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Derek Tate
- Mar 3, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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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Derek Tate
- Jun 24, 2020
- 3 min
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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Derek Tate
- Jun 11, 2020
- 3 min
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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Derek Tate
- Apr 3, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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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Derek Tate
- Feb 1, 2020
- 2 min
Register now for the Sports Coaching Conference
Delegate registrations are now OPEN!
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Derek Tate
- Jan 1, 2020
- 1 min
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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Derek Tate
- Dec 21, 2019
- 3 min
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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Derek Tate
- Oct 20, 2019
- 9 min
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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Derek Tate
- Oct 10, 2019
- 5 min
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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