Dave Collins

@DCGreyMattersUK

Dave Collins of Grey Matters Performance Limited. Hobbies include Beer and Curry Consuming, SCUBA Diving and Performance Psychologising

greymattersuk.com Joined June 2014

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Dave Collins @DCGreyMattersUK 4d

Hi all. Latest 'it depends' style paper, and open access. showing how a mixture of coaching tools can be really effective. This time in Motorsport. Thanks to Howie and Rosie, plus of course driving God John Pratt from izone
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

www.tandfonline.com Designing and Deploying Coaching for Optimum Development – An Exemplar of Integrated Support and... Sport psychologists are increasingly supporting motorsport athletes. Similarly with other sports, work contributes toward skill development. Notably in this regard, recent study of expertise sugges...

Dave Collins @DCGreyMattersUK Oct 7

Very happy to get this out open access. Some (more)arguements against the lack of balance between performance, ambition and wellbeing. Great job by Andrea and Urvi
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

www.frontiersin.org Frontiers | The paradox of protection: rethinking challenge, wellbeing, and development in high-p... Over recent decades, sport psychology has undergone an important and largely welcome shift towards athlete wellbeing, mental health, and safeguarding. Intern...

Dave Collins @DCGreyMattersUK Sep 8

Latest paper with Matt Hillyer, Russ Martindale et al. Interesting on several fronts, including that it already operates well in the academy setting!!
Examining the experience of psychological safety in football academies: Players’ perspective tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

www.tandfonline.com Examining the experience of psychological safety in football academies: Players’ perspective This study explored perceptions of psychological safety (PS) in Category 3 football academies operating under the Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) in England. Four focus groups with 14 Professi...

Dave Collins @DCGreyMattersUK Aug 31

Latest paper on game understanding in youth football...open access so help yourselves. Thanks to the team, Alejandro, Howie and Ally.
doi.org/10.1080/247339…

www.tandfonline.com Reconceptualising game understanding in youth football: implications for applied research and... Game understanding is a fundamental part of performance development in youth football. Currently, however, the concept is inconsistently defined and operationalised across research and coaching con...

Dave Collins @DCGreyMattersUK Aug 25

50 copies of latest paper. Great to see teh applcation of Sufism to performance. Many thanks to Meisam for letting me tag along on his excellent process

tandfonline.com/eprint/BYHD7DF…

www.tandfonline.com Toward a Witnessing Self: A Sufi-Informed ACT Single-Case Exploration of Athletic Identity Conflict This single-case idiographic study explores how the principles of self-knowledge in Sufi psychology might be operationalized to support psychological flexibility and self-acceptance in sport. Using...