Are you concerned about the following issues influencing sport at your school?
- Is your school becoming a sporting academy rather than an educational institution?
- How is sporting success defined at your school?
- Has parental involvement become parental interference?
- Are your learners and athletes burning out at an early age?
- Do your sports teams have too many "sideline coaches"?
- Is winning more important than enjoyment?
- Are average children being sidelined in sport and thus being deprived of a healthy lifestyle?
- Do your coaches know how to get the best out of their athletes, while at the same time ensuring a healthy attitude to their sport
- Are your coaches missing out on opportunities to boost their players' self-esteems, or even worse, are they creating conditions in which self-esteem is being unnecessarily eroded?
- Are some of your athletes experiencing performance slumps?
Workshops
SportsPlus workshops are targeted at parents and coaches and address the following:- Sport and psychological development
- All aspects of motivation
- More effective ways of looking at success and failure
- The role of the adult in youth sport
- Guidelines for positive childrens' sport
- School specific issues on request
Bookings
To discuss booking a workshop for your parents and coaches, contact:Mary Ann Dove
Email: adove@mweb.co.za
Fax: 011-463-5374
Cell: 083-302-5949
Costs available on request.
About SportsPlus
SportsPlus is a programme for schools focusing on performance psychology in sport. The programme is presented by Performance Psychology Associates, namely:Clinton Gahwiler
Clinton Gahwiler (BA Hons MA) qualified at the University of Cape Town, whereafter he spent some time at the Australian Institute of Sport to gain experience in applied sport psychology. In 1995 he returned to start up the psychology practice at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa, in Newlands. Since then he has consulted with many of South Africa's top teams and individual athletes, including most recently, being the team psychologist to the SA Olympic team in Athens 2004.
Greyling Viljoen
Greyling Viljoen is a registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of SA. He is currently in full time private Clinical and Sport Psychology practice. As a Sport Psychologist he has been contracted to provincial teams and has worked with the top athletes in the country, including the 2004 Olympians. He was a member, captain and manager of the South African Canoeing team for a number of years. He is also a past recipient of the SA Sport Merit Award.
Mary Ann Dove
Mary Ann Dove graduated with an honours degree in Sport Science from the University of Cape Town and has consulted to numerous organisations in human development. During the past number of years she has provided lifeskills guidance to both young and Olympic level sports men and women, including project managing the mental preparation and training camp of the 2004 Olympians. In addition, as a parent of 2 children she has experience of the issues being faced by parents, coaches and children.