How to bring applied neuroscience into your coaching – a masterclass by Andy Longley

In our series of masterclasses we sometimes like to bring coaches & experts from outside of hockey. How to bring applied neurosciences into coaching will be brought to you by Andy Longley, from New Zealand and the sport of rugby rather than hockey.

Andy Longley & coachup

The expert bringing you this masterclass will be Andy Longley 🇳🇿, co-founder at coachup.

With a background in the military, Andy has been working as a performance psychologist since 2006 with the New Zealand Navy where he supported and coached members of the special forces. He also worked in the airline industry and of course in sports. He has spent many years working in sport performance & coaching in Europe where he was the senior global director for talent & leadership development for adidas. It was there where Andy focused his work on psychology & applied neuroscience, believing that from understanding how our mind and brains work, sports coaches can take their coaching to the next level.

Andy started off his sporting career as an elite rugby player where he’s played at the highest level across five countries before moving into rugby coaching. He continues to work as a performance coach and expert with professional rugby teams and head coaches alike.

Live or on demand

So we are live on Friday September 2. If you are able to join us live it’s free, if you want to watch it afterwards on demand, you need to be a member. If you’re not a member and could not make it live, you can check out the course we will create from this live masterclass soon after we were live. But we highly recommend you join us live so you can ask our expert coach your own coaching questions as well. We love for these masterclasses to be interactive, so do not just sit back and watch… Participate! Asking questions is the best way of learning

How to bring applied neurosciences into coaching

We know it is the coach who makes the team-work, work! The founders of coachup noticed the majority of traditional sports coaching development focuses on skills, drills and tactics. But this neglects the most important element of high performance… the team environment. With their backgrounds in psychology, neuroscience and in elite sport from Olympians to the Premier League football they set themselves a challenge. They dedicated themselves to find a way to make the science of team performance available to sports coaches, no matter what the sport, no matter what the country, in a really practical way.

In our live & interactive masterclass, Andy will tell us on how to start bringing applied neuroscience into your coaching. Following soon we will launch a more in-depth premium course for those among you who want to master the skills and apply these in your day-to-day coaching activities. So keep your eye on this space here 🙂 And make sure you join in LIVE for our masterclass so you can get an extra discount on the course, only available if you you joined in live on September 2.