• Question: What other activites would you do, other than videos and podcasts to teach people about your work?

    Asked by rebeccapb to Helen on 21 Jun 2011.
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      Helen O'Connor answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Hi Rebecca – I do quite a bit of teaching and education work.

      I write articles for different groups of people about sport psychology. Here is an article I wrote about ‘exercise addition’ http://www.yourdocmedical.co.uk/exercise/243 and here is my blog, where I have written about all sorts of topics, including this one about ‘what we can learn from our mistakes’ http://startingnow.squarespace.com/blog/2011/2/5/why-we-should-embrace-failure.html

      I also give talks to groups of people about sport psychology – like at gyms or health clubs, or sports clubs.

      I will go back to South Africa next year, as I try to do at least one piece of voluntary work each year.

      So there are so many ways I can communicate about psychology already – the videos and podcasts is a special project I would like to do to help more children in South Africa learn life skills through sport psychology.

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