The BASES Outreach Project Team, which aims to increase public engagement and awareness of BASES, has planned a public talk, open to any interested parties, which will take place during the BASES 2024 Conference at the CBS Arena, Coventry. This free, public session, Applied psychology in elite sport 101 – live examples from sport psychology delivery in elite sport through UK Sports Institute (UKSI) will take place from 6 pm to 7 pm on Wednesday 20 November 2024.
The session will be presented by Dr Danielle Adams Norenberg, Head of Psychology at the UK Sports Institute. Danielle is an ex-international swimmer with over 15 years’ experience as a Sport Psychologist having supported multiple medallists at Rio 2016, Tokyo 2021, and Paris 2024. She is Head of Psychology for the UK Sports Institute, lead psychologist for British Triathlon and the English National Ballet. Danielle has a research portfolio in attention mechanisms of elite sports performers, psychological priming, and pressure training. In her work, she facilitates the creation of high-performance environments that support psychological growth in people for them to perform at their optimal when it matters most.
This public talk will include an example sport psychology delivery model and case studies providing examples of how coaches could integrate sport psychology, how an athlete can use a sport psychologist and what sport psychology can assist with generally.
