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What is a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE)? And what does it look like across the worlds of sport, business, the military, education, the performing arts and many other performance fields? With 19 years working in marketing strategy for blue chip companies and 11 years training towards Sports and Performance Psychology chartership ( CPsychol - achieved in Jan 2024), I am seeking to find what each domain can learn from the other. To do so, I'm speaking to high performance experts, psychologists and those at the forefront of leadership, teamwork and organisational psychology research. #SliceofPIE Website: www.petejackson.co.uk

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November 7, 202649 min

#38 Supervision & Mentorship - Dr. Brian Hemmings & Dr. Jonathan Katz

Hello and welcome back to the Slice of PIE podcast. This episode is a cracking one for those embarking on supervision, looking for a supervisor or even a neophyte supervisor looking to improve their skills, as well as those receiving mentorship or practicing as a mentor. I talk to former QSEP supervisors of mine Dr Brian Hemmings and Dr Jonathan Katz, who attempt to capture what they’ve learned in 20+ years of supervision and mentorship, along with the 14+ years of group supervision they have worked on together. The conversation was so fruitful we had to cut this episode into two parts. Dr Jonathan Katz is a former fencer turned coach, former counselling psychologist turned sport psychologist, and veteran of 4 paralympic games, Team England Head Coach for the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Fencing Championships, BPS accredited supervisor and Business & Executive Coach as well. Dr Brian Hemmings has a similarly impressive career resume including 30+ years of experience in sport psychology consultancy including a prominent profile in golf psychology, as the lead psychologist to England golf for 17 years. Brian has hosted 4 national golf psychology conferences, runs masterclasses, and has been a keynote speaker at five PGA National Conferences across Europe. Brian also has a wealth of experience in numerous other sports, including professional cricket, Olympic and Commonwealth Games boxing, and motorsport including Formula 1/LeMans. In 2010 he was awarded a Fellowship by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences in recognition of 'esteemed personal achievement, skills, knowledge and service to CASES and the sport and exercise science community'. You can follow Brian & Jonathan here: Brian’s LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-hemmings-00380040/ Brian’s email (contact for info on mentoring): brian@bjhconsulting.co.uk Brian’s Golf Mind Website & info on webinar series: https://www.golfmind.co.uk/webinars/ Brian’s upcoming applied webinar series through CASES: https://www.cases.org.uk/scal-events-event_listings0.html Jonathan’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/drjonathankatz Jonathan’s email (contact for info on mentoring): jkatz@mindmood.org Jonathan’s recent book chapters: Myths of Sport & Exercise Psychology (recently released): https://www.sequoia-books.com/catalog/exercise/ - Chapter 2. “CBT Ignores or Minimises”: Myths of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - Jonathan Katz Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy (2025). https://www.routledge.com/Professional-Skills-in-Sport-Psychology-Consultancy-Personal-and-Interpersonal-Dynamics/Hemmings-Holder-Winter/p/book/9781032503844 - Chapter 1. Psychologists Are People Too - Jonathan Katz Applied Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology: Current Approaches to Helping Clients: https://www.routledge.com/Applied-Sport-Exercise-and-Performance-Psychology-Current-Approaches-to-Helping-Clients/Tod-Eubank/p/book/9781138587854 - Chapter 3. Person-Centred Approaches - Jonathan Katz and Julie Keyes The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation: https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Sport-Injury-and-Rehabilitation/Arvinen-Barrow-Clement/p/book/9781032282039 - Chapter 9: Counselling Skills in Sport Injury and Rehabilitation - Jonathan Katz and Julie A. Waumsley

September 18, 202641 min

#37 MORE Psychology in F1 - Dr. Robbie Anderson

Welcome back to the Slice of PIE podcast. This episode is part 2 of the conversation with Robbie Anderson. If you like digging into the performance world of Formula One, as well a casual mentions of the importance of Portuguese Restaurant chain Nandos – then you’re in for a real treat! If you’re interested, check out the first part of the conversation with Robbie – the link to that episode is here: https://www.sliceofpiepodcast.com/987202/episodes/19336453-36-psychology-in-formula-one-dr-robbie-anderson ...but even if you’re jumping straight in at this point, there’s more than enough to take from this part without neccesirly needing to listen to part 1 first. As a reminder, here are the key places to find Robbie and his work: You can follow Robbie here: Website: https://www.performingminds.com/about Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbieanderson1/

June 12, 202635 min

#36 Psychology in Formula One - Dr. Robbie Anderson

Who is going to let us under the bonnet of the Formula One world? We are very fortunate to get the 'inside track' via Dr Robbie Anderson , Head of Performance Psychology at Hintsa F1 programs as well as Founder and Director of his own company Performing Minds . Reading out the rest of Robbie’s achievements and experiences could be podcast episode in itself – some of his notable previous positions include first team performance psychologist at QPR, Head of Psychology at INEOS Grenadiers Cycling and Psychology Lead at England rugby – throw in positions with GB Taewknodo and GB canoing as well as positions in the private sector in the world of Hedge Funds and a decades long stint working with Steve Peters at Chimp Management where he was latterly Managing Director – and you have a podcast guest with an awful lot to shine a light on. And we did cover an awful lot. To the extent that this conversation was enough to fill TWO bumper episodes of Slice of PIE – so this first part will be going out in June, and we’ll try and get the second part of the interview edited and on the channel by the end of the summer. So stayed tuned for part 2 once you extracted all of Robbie’s great insights from this first peak under the hood. You can follow Robbie here: Website: https://www.performingminds.com/about Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbieanderson1/

January 19, 20261 hr 10 min

#35 Behind the Curtain of Elite Football - Dr. Peter Schneider

The first episode of 2026 is a compelling sneak peak behind the curtain of elite European professional football, with the fantastic Dr Peter Schneider. Peter is a mental performance coach with a PhD in Sport Psychology and dual master’s degrees in Sport & Exercise Psychology and Diagnostics & Intervention, trained at the University of Leipzig and the University of Jyväskylä. Across 4 seasons leading mental performance at RB Leipzig, he helped build high‑performance habits that translated into two DFB‑Cup titles and a Supercup victory. And in this episode we get to hear some fascinating stories and anecdotes from this world, punctuated by some pearls of wisdom on elite performance, and the lives of elite performers. You can follow Peter here: Website: https://www.peterschneider-mpr.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterschneider85/

October 12, 20251 hr 2 min

#34 Closing the Research to Practice Gap - Dr. Mustafa Sarkar

This week’s episode is an AASP Special. Dr. Mustafa Sarkar is Associate Professor of Sport and Performance Psychology at Nottingham Trent University as well as a consultant specialising in individual, team, and organisational resilience across many high performance domains. The Association for Applied Sport Psychology (or AASP)’s annual conference is coming up this week from the 15th – 18th October in Montreal, where there will be a host of great speakers and content. Mustafa delivered the opening keynote to last year’s 2024 AASP conference in Las Vegas – titled “Bridging the Research to Practice Gap in Sport and Performance Psychology”. In this episode Mustafa unpacks some of the context behind this keynote, as well as six suggested starting points for how we can bridge this gap as a profession, as an industry and as individuals. At this week’s AASP conference, we’ll get a complimentary roundtable entitled the “Practice to Research Gap’, chaired by Philadelphia Phillies’ Mental Performance Coordinator Traci Statler - what better time to reflect on Mustafa’s insights, experiences and provocations from 2024. You can follow Mustafa here: Social networks: - LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mustafa-sarkar-b6370256 NYU Website: - https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/science-technology/mustafa-sarkar Our previous podcast episode covering ‘Resilience’.. - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1-resilience-in-people-and-organisations-dr-mustafa-sarkar/id1506560750?i=1000470629088 Research: - Mustafa’s Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mustafa-Sarkar-2?ev=hdr_xprf - Ben Ashdown’s research on resilience behaviours in academy football: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10413200.2024.2361701 - Richard Keegan’s paper in 2017 on bridging the research-practice gap: https://archives.rpd-online.com/article/view/v26-n6-keegan-cotteril-woolway-etal.html - Dr Marie Winter’s work on evidence-informed decision making (paper 1): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10413200.2023.2286950 - Dr Marie Winter’s work on evidence-informed decision making (paper 2): https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/tsp/39/3/article-p200.xml - Myths of Sport Coaching by Dr Amy Whitehead and Jenny Coe: https://www.sequoia-books.com/catalog/whiteheadcoe/ - Myths of Sport Performance by Dr Amy Whitehead and Jenny Coe: https://www.sequoia-books.com/catalog/sport/ Videos: - Richard Keegan: closing the research to practi

August 29, 20251 hr 3 min

#33 Further REBT Exploration - Dr. Martin Turner

In this second episode of 2025 we have the pleasure of getting to speak to Dr. Martin Turner again - exploring different nuances and themes within REBT, and its growing applicability to systemic and environment challenges. On the applied side Martin has worked across football, cricket, rugby, cycling, archery, shooting, and equestrian. He also provides performance psychology to business professionals. He’s the Lead Sport Psychologist for England Futsal and his work with athletes has included seasons at Nottingham Forest FC Academy, Nottingham County Cricket Club Academy, Staffordshire County Cricket Club Academy, and Stoke City Football Academy. You can find out more about Martin, his books and latest papers below: Social networks: https://twitter.com/DrMJTurner https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-martin-turner-828b766b/ The Books: 1) The Rational Practitioner (the one with the Dragon) https://www.routledge.com/The-Rational-Practitioner-The-Sport-and-Performance-Psychologists-Guide-To-Practicing-Rational-Emotive-Behaviour-Therapy/Turner/p/book/9781032060408 2) REBT in Sport & Exercise (2020) https://www.waterstones.com/book/rational-emotive-behavior-therapy-in-sport-and-exercise/martin-turner/richard-bennett/9780367407803 The REBT & Hero’s Journey Paper: Tales of rationality: the rational emotive behavioral monomyth as a metaphorical alignment of rational emotive behavior therapy and the Hero’s Journey narrative structure - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1572636/full Recommended book: "Down and Out in London and Paris" (George Orwell): https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/364887/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london-by-orwell-george/9781784878993

March 28, 202558 min

#32 The Psychology of Endurance - Stuart Holliday

Welcome to Slice of PIE episode 32. Stuart Holliday (CPsychol) is a Sport Psychologist for GB Olympic Swimming, and runs his own practice Focused Mind Coaching with clients in sport, music, and business. He has worked in elite sport environments for over 10 years at Olympic, Paralympic, Commonwealth, and Premiership experience for Archery, Swimming, England Netball, and Liverpool Football Club. His real passion and area of expertise is Endurance sport, which is why he has a subsidiary of Focused Mind Coaching called Endurance Mind Coaching for runners, swimmers, cyclists and triathletes. He has co-written ‘The Psychology of Running’ with Dr Noel Brick, and in the music industry, the ‘Touring Manual’. In this conversation we really lean into the endurance side of his practice, and I was very fortunate to catch Stuart late at night after we’d put each of our two kids to bed. Despite being two tired Dads I am delighted with the conversation and look forward to hearing what people take from it. Details about Stuart, his company, his book and other various recommendations from the podcast: Websites: Focused mind coaching: https://www.focusedmindcoaching.co.uk/ Endurance mind coaching: https://www.endurancemindcoaching.com/ Stuart’s social presence: linkedin.com/in/stuartholliday Focused Mind Coaching: https://www.instagram.com/focusedmindcoaching/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/focusedmindcoaching/ Podcast: https://www.focusedmindcoaching.co.uk/podcasts/ Endurance mind courses: https://www.endurancemindcoaching.com/sport-psychology/online-courses/ Referenced papers: Integrating sport psychology work: McHugh, Mason & Jeffreys (2022) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366988120_Psychosocial_coaching_practices_An_interim_report_on_UKSCA_stakeholders%27_perception Ford, Masters & Vosloo (2022) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17479541221101226 - trying to get it from ResearchGate A 2022 paper by the R.E.S.I.S.T working group on psychological strategies to employ to resist slowing down: https://explore.bps.org.uk/content/bpssepr/18/1/4 The book ENDURE by Alex Hutchinson , reviewed by chartered sport psychologist Josephine Perry: https://performanceinmind.co.uk/2018/06/09/review-endure-alex-hutchinson/ The Psychology of Running , by Noel Brick and Stuart Holliday https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003204206/psychology-running-noel-brick-stuart-holliday Other Misc. Recommendations: Podcast - Finding Mastery with Des Linden: https://findingmastery.com/podcasts/des-linden/

November 17, 2024Episode 311 hr 0 min

#31 Psychology in Golf - Dr. Will McConn-Palfreyman

In the fourth Slice of PIE of 2024, we get the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Will McConn Palfreyman, Head of Psychology at Scottish Golf , and lecturer in Sport Psychology at the University of Sterling. A chartered sport & exercise psychologist through the British Psychological Society – Will has worked with a number of sporting organisations including sportscotland Institute of Sport, Scottish Golf, Scottish Cycling, the Scottish Rugby Union, Racing Welfare, the National Trainers Federation, the Arsenal F.C. Psychology Network and the Scottish Women’s National Volleyball team. Will is such an affable and engaging guy – someone I’ve always gravitated to at conferences and enjoyed speaking to. I was really looking forward to this conversation, and it didn’t disappoint – as we traversed the topics of learning and mastery, coaching, and golf’s “psychological fingerprint.” You can follow Will here: Social networks: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-will-mcconn-palfreyman-18a54433/?originalSubdomain=uk Twitter/X: https://x.com/WillMcConn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drwillmcconn/ Article in The Psychologist https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/five-inch-course Documentaries: Hoop Dreams (film): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tciknLFw8GE Jerome Betis, A Football Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lODsFL8BJHs Referenced papers: Lubker et al. (2008). https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/sphhs_exer_facpubs/240/ Woolway, Chris Harwood (2020): https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Consultant_characteristics_in_sport_psychology_service_provision_a_critical_review_and_future_research_directions/13233998?file=25491536

August 10, 2024Episode 3057 min

#30 IMG Academy and More - Dr. Duncan Simpson

In the third Slice of PIE of 2024, we get the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Duncan Simpson. Duncan joined IMG from Barry University in Miami in 2017 - providing mental conditioning services for tennis, golf, and soccer. Originally from England, he received his Ph.D in Sport Psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He’s a Certified Consultant with the Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) and has been conducting mental skills training with athletes and coaches since 2005 - from a range of sports and varying in talent and ability from beginners to professional and Olympic athletes. Most recently, Duncan along with co-host Dr. Greg Young have originated the Performers podcast , dissecting the autobiographical accounts of famous athletes, coaches practitioners and performers – including Dan Carter, Andre Agassi and most recently, Bubba Watson. As of this recording Duncan and Greg have produced 18 fantastic episodes, decoding the tips and tricks of high level performers – using their knowledge of sport psychology theory and practice to connect the dots. The link to the podcast is below, and I would highly recommend listening to it. In this conversation with Duncan we talk about the podcast, as well as his experience leading a team of mental performance consultants at the IMG Academy, a private school based in Florida, as well as his insights and observations of what makes a psychologically informed environment – along with a few good book recommendation (again linked below). You can follow Duncan here: Social networks: https://x.com/sportpsychdunc?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-simpson-ph-d-cmpc-76244b1a The Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@PerformersPod?app=desktop Listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/56cK91sh2F1FzXXmbx1ECt?si=bba76a5f19584b10 A life without limits - Chrissie Wellington https://www.waterstones.com/book/a-life-without-limits/chrissie-wellington/9781780338712

May 27, 202437 min

#29 REBT and Performance Psychology - Dr. Martin Turner

In the second Slice of PIE of 2024, we get the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Martin Turner. Martin is a very experienced academic, researcher and practitioner – with specific interests in challenge and threat states in athletes, and the use of REBT with athletes. On the applied side Martin has worked across football, cricket, rugby, cycling, archery, shooting, and equestrian. He also provides performance psychology to business professionals. He’s the Lead Sport Psychologist for England Futsal and his work with athletes has included seasons at Nottingham Forest FC Academy, Nottingham County Cricket Club Academy, Staffordshire County Cricket Club Academy, and Stoke City Football Academy. We talk about one of his latest papers on the use of REBT with sales professionals (link below) and broaden the conversation into wider REBT tenets. You can follow Martin here: Social networks: https://twitter.com/DrMJTurner https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-martin-turner-828b766b/ The Books: 1) The Rational Practitioner (2022, the one with the Dragon) https://www.routledge.com/The-Rational-Practitioner-The-Sport-and-Performance-Psychologists-Guide-To-Practicing-Rational-Emotive-Behaviour-Therapy/Turner/p/book/9781032060408 2) REBT in Sport & Exercise (2020) https://www.waterstones.com/book/rational-emotive-behavior-therapy-in-sport-and-exercise/martin-turner/richard-bennett/9780367407803 The REBT & Sales paper: When not making your sales target is "the end of the world" - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smi.3391