Dr. Swoap will be speaking at the All-American Cross Country Camp, directed by Coach Rollie Geiger of N.C. State University.  This is for three consecutive Mondays in July.

This is a two-day event on which provides opportunities for
educators and others to practice together and to engage in meaningful
conversations on how contemplative practices inform our work for good in
the world. On Friday afternoon, I will lead three short demos of exercises I do in three different courses: Health Psychology, Counseling Psychology, and Sport Psychology.

Learn about key tools that athletes and coaches can use to achieve peak performance. This presentation draws on 25 years of the science and practice of sport psychology.

Studies of mindfulness have proliferated over the past
few years. There is evidence for a wide range of benefits: health,
emotional functioning, attentional skills, working memory, and
performance. But mindfulness is not widely taught in our psychology
departments.
Our students would benefit from learning more about the science of
mindfulness practices, from Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
to its uses with college athletes. Further, it would be helpful to
know whether and how to effectively implement aspects of mindfulness
practice in the classroom itself.

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Dr. Swoap will be speaking at the All-American Cross Country Camp, directed by Coach Rollie Geiger of N.C. State University.  This is for three consecutive Mondays in July.

Sport Psychology booth.

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When faced with the challenges of making and maintaining health behavior changes, where do your clients turn for inspiration? How do you motivate your teams? In this session, we will look at a specific group of individuals for whom motivation is a keystone skill – elite athletes.  What practices do successful athletes employ that make possible their achievements? How do they stay consistently motivated? And how can we adapt their habits to achieve best practices in health promotion?  In this session, we will examine the remarkably effective behavioral and psychological habits of elite athletes and discover how their skills and motivation can be applied in health promotion settings.  We will focus on this topic by drawing upon current psychological and neuroscience research, case studies of elite athletes, and sport psychology demonstrations.

Youth Sport Psychology features the most recent findings from sport psychology and the mindset that leads to the most success (and the most fun!) for student-athletes. Swoap will share suggestions on how to apply the habits and practices of the most successful teams and individuals he’s worked with – ranging from Olympic athletes to ACC teams – to our own children’s lives.

The talk is free and open to Asheville-area parents and coaches.

presenting with Caroline Mann & Lydia Eckstein-Jackson

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How do successful athletes respond to setbacks?  What factors are associated with hardiness in individuals recovering from illness? What are empirically-supported techniques for coping with adversity?  All of these questions examine aspects of resilience; they have been extensively investigated in laboratory and applied settings. When our students take courses in sport and health psychology, they often desire takeaway messages that will help them achieve greater success and/or well-being.

This talk focuses on how we can best translate the resilience research with our students in courses on health and sport psychology.