Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Performance Psychcast. Today we are very fortunate to be speaking with Dr Brian Hemmings.

Brian has 30 years of experience in sport psychology consultancy. Working full-time in private practice since 2006, he is an author/editor of 5 books, 17 book chapters, and over 40 research papers.

Having a world profile in golf psychology, he was the lead psychologist to England golf for 17 years, and has worked extensively across male and female professional tours. In golf coach education, Brian’s online Golf Psychology Coaching Certificate (www.golfpsychologycoaching.com) has been completed by over 1000 coaches/psychologists worldwide, and it is now translated into German, Spanish and South Korean. Brian has hosted 4 national golf psychology conferences, runs masterclasses, and has been a keynote speaker at five PGA National Conferences across Europe. He has also presented and given workshops internationally in the USA, Hong Kong, China, India, Australia, South Korea, Austria, Germany, Holland and Italy. www.golfmind.co.uk

Brian also has a wealth of experience in numerous other sports, for example in professional cricket, Olympic and Commonwealth Games boxing, and motorsport including Formula 1/LeMans.

Brian gained his PhD in sport psychology from the University of Southampton in 1998; and has mentored/supervised over 50 sport psychologists in the last 25 years. 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 BASES and the sport and exercise science community’.

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