My Training and Experience
With over twenty years of coaching and guiding people in adventure sports, and seven years training in the psychological components of the head game, I have the following qualifications and further training and experience to help you get that edge.
- British Caving Trainer and Assessor
- British Canoeing Trainer and Assessor.
- Senior Associate Coach and Guide for Derby University Degree Courses in Outdoor Leadership BA and Adventure Sports Coaching BSc.
- Dozens of national and international expeditions led with great emphasis on the psychological aspects of performance in technical and arduous environments.
Including:
Jordan, Romania, Thailand, Nepal, Ladakh, Vietnam, Cambodia, Ecuador, Tanzania, Croatia, Madagascar, Zambia, India, Borneo, Sweden, Norway, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, France
Mental Game Training
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- Advanced Hypnosis for Sports Performance
- Certificate in Clinical Hypnotherapy
- Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy
- Diploma in Neuro Linguistic Programming
- Certified Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming
- Certified Practitioner of Intrinsic Neuro Linguistic Psychology
- Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming
- N.L.P. Coaching
- Clean Language for Hypnotists
- Epistomological Metaphors
- Wounded Child Within
- Core Transformations
- Rossi – Ideo Dynamic Communication “Mirroring Hands”
- Fast Inductions for Hypnosis
- Training in Emotional Freedom Technique (E.F.T.)
- Training in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprogramming (E.M.D.R.)
Sports and Adventure Training
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- Cave Instructors Certificate inc National Mines Module (No. 86)
- U.K.C.C. Five Star Leader Canoe
- U.K.C.C. Wilderness Guide
- U.K.C.C. Wilderness Guide Trainer and Assessor
- U.K.C.C. Aspirant Advanced Coach
- B.C.U. Level 3 Canoe Coach
- British Canoe Union White Water Safety and Rescue for Canoeists
- U.K.C.C. Advanced White Water Safety and Rescue
- Institute of Outdoor Learning Bushcraft Practitioner
- Leave No Trace Awareness Trainer
- Local Cave Leader Trainer and Assessor
- Summer Mountain Leader Award
- M.L.T.B. Single Pitch Award
- First Aid Remote Wilderness Care
- I.T.A. Introductory Transactional Analysis 101
- Winter Mountain Leader
- P.A.D.I. Open Water Diver
- P.A.D.I. Advanced Open Water Diver
- P.A.D.I. Rescue Diver
- P.A.D.I. Deep Diver Speciality
- M.L.T.B. Disability Awareness Seminar
- Health and Safety.
- Training in the Children Act
- Training in Child Protection
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention: Basic.
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention: Staff Recovery
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention: Effective Confrontation
- Prevention, Assessment, Management of Violence and Aggression
- Fairbridge Training: Difficult Behaviour Practitioner tool kit
- Visually Impaired Awareness Training RNIB 2012
- UK Sports Coach Safe guarding and Protecting Children 2011