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Andrea Furst, Sport Psychologist, England Rugby and Surrey County Cricket Club<\/h6>\n
Helen Richardson-Walsh, Performance & Culture Coach, Tottenham Hotspur FC<\/h6>\n

At the 2022 Leaders Sport Performance Summit at London’s Twickenham Stadium, we had a peer-to-peer interview between Andrea Furst and Helen Richardson-Walsh, who worked together as psychologist and athlete to win Rio 2016 Olympic Hockey Gold for Great Britain. The pair talked us through how they were able to create a winning team environment and the importance of the role psychology can play in performance.<\/p>\n

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  • Fostering trust between the psychologist and athlete is key. The athlete trusting that they are having a confidential conversation has such a positive impact.<\/li>\n
  • Allowing the players to sit down and set the culture helped to get player buy-in straight away, and it was credit to the head coach to allow that to be the starting point.<\/li>\n
  • When your vision is \u2018winning\u2019 it can leave you with a very empty feeling or feel very disappointed even if you\u2019re on the podium. There is something more than just winning.<\/li>\n
  • The biggest thing a head coach can do with regards to culture work is give it time. To have the whole staff and players group involved and integrate it into every day behaviours.<\/li>\n
  • \u2018How do you want to be remembered?\u2019 It is about what can you do on the hockey pitch, but also who can you be off it. To be role models for women in sport, to stand up for what you believe and use your voice for good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    GB Women\u2019s Hockey Vision:<\/p>\n

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    • Be the Difference; Create History; Inspire the Future.<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • The vision, values and behaviours make you accountable. The language was everything everyone had bought into and would use regularly. You knew what was expected of yourself and of one another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Individual mindset: Knowing your \u2018A Game\u2019<\/p>\n

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      • It is so important for every individual to understand their performance mindset before they go out to play and take responsibility for this.<\/li>\n
      • Knowing this allows you to understand how to be consistent.<\/li>\n
      • This is a skill and it can be learned.<\/li>\n
      • You then share your A game with the rest of the team, and the team understand you better plus they know how they can help you to stay on your A game. It is for a team work on; and it normalises it.<\/li>\n
      • If it matters to the head coach, it matters to the athletes. The head coach sets the tone, if they disregard psychology or integrate it, it filters through to the players and makes a huge difference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n
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