| sam kotadia (sammyk) |
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| sport psychologist, executive coach, psychology training in Bristol, London, | |
| Mindsport, executive coaching, business coaching, executive coaching, | |
| bristol, UK | |
mindsportlive.com |
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| Member since: Nov 14th,2007 | Profile hits: 635 | Network: 8 | |
Profile Summary
Using the mind to raise performance in sport
Sport Psychologist
Executive Coach
Managing Director of Mindsport Ltd
I am a high performance consultant growing my own consultancy company. We offer mental skills training in the form of consultancy and seminars. I work with a diverse array of clients including professional sportsman, professional sports coaches, business organisations, and also with private clients that want to optimise their life.
I also specialise in the use of NLP in sport (neuro-linguistic programming).
Sam has built up an extensive library of sport psychology articles, and features regularly for the magazine Sport.
Below is a list of free sport psychology resouces
20 tip to build confidence in sport.
Fire up your focus in sport
Improve your leadership qualities in sport,- applied sport psychology
Create a winning buzz in the dressing room
Dealing with injuries: The psychological approach
Get in the zone, sport psychology fundamentals
Get more speed- mental skills training
Match-winning strategies- NLP applications
Sam's current online istadia's acitivities includes the following:
Articles
Dressing room psychology-A great article to lear how maximise the benefits of group psycholohgy
Confidence tips and tricks- An article that outlines strategic tricks and tools to improve confidence
An introduction to getting in the zone- This article presents a number of strategies to accesss the elusive state of 'being in the zone
Goal-Setting- A newly added article that presents a step by step approach to building a powerful goal-setting programme.
Events
MIndsport: Sport psychology training
A 2 day course that provides candidates with the skills and techniques to deliver sport psychology support
You can track me down on Facebook and at Mindsport Ltd
The syndication of psychology information.
NLP consultancy
Mindsport runs applied sport psychology courses
Mindsport delivers one to one and group executive coaching sessions
Mental Skills Training Seminars
Free psychology information at Mindsportlive.com
Managing Director of Mindsport Ltd
3 years Colchester United FC working as their sport psycholgist
3 years consultancy work in professional tennis
Online publisher
Mindsport training in sport has provided links to indepth articles that are covered in Mindsport training.
Confidence,
Confidence is an important construct to master in the sporting arena. Through the application of powerful confidence techniques and strategies unmoving levels of belief and confidence can be built.
Motivation,
Sport psychology is highly individualised and very subjective. Learning to acquire your own personalised motivational strategies you build a mental-armoury specifically suited to your needs.
Goal-setting,
One of the biggest predictors of success is direction. Incorporating well-structured goal-setting programs into your sporting setup will propel you towards excellence very quickly.
Dealing with injuries,
Overcoming injuries is an important part of professional sport. By developing a full armoury of mental skills and psychological techniques you will develop the fortitude to ovecome phyiscal set-backs.
How to get in the zone,
By learning to control your mind in an automatic and instinctive way, you can access the zone wih greater ease and efficiency.
Focus,
Without a sharp level of focus in and out of the sporting arena it becomes difficult to achieve positive results. By building a repertoire of tools to keep your concentration strong you are able to maintain a match-winning level of focus.
Integration of mental skills into sport
Mental Skills can be a taxing experience to bring into professional sport. By applying the correct methodologies sport psychology support will become more effective and beneficial.
Leadership Skills
Leadership is an important skill to master in professional sport. By strengthening your leadership skills you will become a more powerful and influential communicator.
Process-Orientation
You cannot directly control sporting outcomes, but you can control the processes behind them. Adopting a process-orientated mindset will keep you feeling confident, and motivated to succeed.
Preparation is a key predictor of success in sport. Integrating well structured pre-match and match-routines in your regimes will increase your sporting success.
BSc Psychology (Honours degree)
MSc Fitness and Health
Master NLP Practitioner
Published author
Managing Director of Mindsport Ltd
3 years at Colchester United FC working as their sport psychologist
Performance consultancy work in professional tennis
Mindsport Ltd Executive Summary:
HQ: Bristol/Bath/South-west
The sport psychology support fundamentally involves one to one coaching at the professional/elite level.
Sport Psychology: Tennis Clients
working on building confidence, focus and motivation
Sport Psychology: Football Clients
Predominantly working on team cohesion, confidence, concentration,
Sport Psychology: Hockey Clients
Predominantly working on self-esteem, motivation.
Team Bath Client: Football Player
This involves one to one consultancy, working on sport psychology constructs such as confidence, motivation, control, focus
Assistant Manager, Charlton Football Club
Msc Fitness and Health-This provided me with a greater understanding of how the body impacts on our internal psychology
Master NlP Practitioner-Training will Paul Mckenna I became better equiped to apply personal change techniques to help my clients acheive the results that they want.
Applied Hypnotherapy
6 years applied sport psychology experience
(Delivering mental skills training, confidence buiding, goal-setting, process-orientation work, and a host of other personal change techniques were employed.
2 years as a Managing Director for Mindsport Ltd. Based in the heart of the Bristol City Centre, Mindsport has its well established HQ.
Graduating in psychology and completing a masters degree at the University of Essex, Sam delivers high performance coaching for a wide variety of clients.
Because each individual has a unique way of thinking, Sam tailors his coaching to match the individual's needs providing them with maximum benefits.
Among some of Sam’s high profile clients includes Phil Parkinson, the assistant manager of Charlton Athletic Football Club. Sam worked alongside Phil Parkinson for 3 years at Parkinson’s former club Colchester United, in which they saw the club win a historic promotion to the Championship Division.
After successes in professional sport Sam diversified his expertise by venturing into the realm of behavioural finance and business psychology, predominantly working with the stock market traders abroad.
To further his understanding of the human mind Sam trained personally with hypnotist Paul Mckenna, where he became a qualified Master NLP Practitioner. This priceless experience empowered Sam to be able to use positive mind engineering techniques with his clients. This added a new gear to his support work, dramatically increasing his repertoire of behavioural tools to improve performance.
Recognising the universality of the techniques and strategies that Sam was using, in 2006 he decided to aggregate the information and form the company Mindsport Ltd. Streamlining the information through a unique online experience, Sam can now work with a global audience. Currently Mindsport is one of the fastest growing online resources of practical self-information on the internet.
