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COACHING MARIE
About the Mental Performance Coaching The coaching is based on positive psychology, solution-oriented psychotherapy, sport pedagogy and cognitive psychology. Mental training or mental coaching refers to the different mental techniques necessary for consistent high performance. The aim of the coaching is to help my clients better understand themselves and thus develop and utilize their mental…
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MENTAL PERFORMANCE
Offering mental performance coaching including both sports and business. The coaching is based on positive psychology, solution-oriented psychotherapy, sport pedagogy and cognitive psychology. Mental coaching or training refers to the mental techniques necessary for consistent high performance. Mental training often includes goal setting, visualization, mental imagery, self-talk retraining and emotion regulation to enhance performance. The…
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SOCIAL WELLBEING
“Understanding social needs is next here, as we have long statistics on mental health problems.” “Physical and mental well-being go hand in hand and that mental side may even be more important” Social wellbeing is at least as important as other aspects of wellbeing. Together with Katriina Kivinen, a social psychologist, and Tommi Ostrovskij, a…
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ROLES
Goffman (1959) compares the interaction to a play: “Perhaps the whole world is not a stage, but it is difficult to show in which relationships this is not the case”. This so-called the dramaturgical approach presents people as actors, often quite pretenders, or at least emphasizing their own role with various effects – calculated or…
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MOTIVATION
Internal motivation is when a person does something for the joy of doing it, for its own sake. However, internal motivation can also be destroyed if the activity is rewarded and the activity is interpreted as the pursuit of this reward. According to the theory of self-determination, activity is influenced by three basic psychological needs:…
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EMOTIONS
The changes in our body directly follow the perception of an exciting event, and feeling these same changes as they occur is an emotion (William James, 1884). On the other hand, the emergence of emotion is influenced by situational assessments of the significance of events for the experiencer’s personal well-being. According to Lazarus, the first…
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IDENTITY
In social psychology, self-perception or identity traditionally refers to how a person experiences himself and expresses himself in his social environment. However, identity is a broader concept than the self and emphasizes the social and situational nature of the self. According to the theory of social identity (Tajfel, 1978; Tajfel & Turner, 1979), people seek…
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN BRIEF
Social psychology focuses on human interaction and social phenomena. In short, social psychology studies interactions between people and the regularities of group activities. Research topics include, for example, interaction, attitudes, identity and attributions (explaining activities). Social psychology examines a person’s social character, behavior, and its regularities. Social psychological theories are utilized, for example, in the…