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Career planning
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Creating a Successful Team Environment
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Goal Kicking Skills
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Mental Skills
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Sports Psychology
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Values and Standards
Background
- Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Professor of Counsellor Education
- Head of the Department of Health and Human Development at Massey University
- Counsellor Educator at Massey University for over 25 years
- Past President of the New Zealand Sport Psychology Association
- Accredited Sport Psychologist (Level 3) - Sport Science New Zealand
- Team Psychologist NZ Commonwealth Games Team, Kuala Lumpur, 1998; Manchester, 2002
- Team Psychologist to the New Zealand Olympic Games Team in Sydney 2000
- Played over 100 first-class games of rugby for Manawatu, Wellington and New Zealand Universities
- Captained Wellington and New Zealand Universities rugby teams
- Played in Wellington rugby teams that beat the 1965 Springboks and 1966 British Lions
- Coached Massey University Rugby Senior Teams
- New Zealand Universities Rugby Selector for several years
- Wicketkeeper for New Zealand Universities and New Zealand 'Under 23' Cricket Teams
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