by DOCIAsport | Sep 3, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
This is a story about connection, the real power of sport way – way more than the results on the field of play. It’s about values, teamwork and making a sustainable difference for others. And it’s about something deeper and beyond what we think, it’s about what we...
by DOCIAsport | Aug 2, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
Through DOCIAsport I have had a valued personal and professional relationship with the charity SwitchThePlay Foundation www.switchtheplay.com for a number of years. I have had a number of roles mentor to athletes and staff, mental health first aid training and...
by DOCIAsport | Jul 30, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
Last week I wrote an Insight piece for the DOCIAsport website as I was about to go on a digital detox retreat with www.unplugged.rest . Just me and Fred the NED. It had been a busy and often challenging few months and I needed to stop and recharge. But I didn’t...
by DOCIAsport | Jul 24, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
This is the man writing who uses the strapline “Take and give care” and regularly asks the question ‘Who’s looking after the people looking after the people?’ with clients. This is the man who also struggles sometimes to practice what he preaches. But not this week....
by DOCIAsport | Jul 19, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
And breathe! The Euros are over and the vicarious trauma of watching England has stopped. We can empty the recycling bin of cans, settle the account with Deliveroo and prepare to go again in a week’s time with the start of the Olympics in the Paris Games. The Euros...
by DOCIAsport | Jul 4, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
I’m feeling restless. Maybe it’s the election that’s the cause. I think there’s a sense of inevitability about the outcome and whilst a new government will cause uncertainty there’s also a sense of opportunity that should be grasped too. The need for change is, I...
by DOCIAsport | Jun 10, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
In 2021 in the midst of the pandemic and lockdown I hosted a Zoom call from my home in Sussex. At the other end of the country in Wigan, Lancashire, there were over forty people on the call interested to learn what the concept of a “Community Wellbeing Hub” could look...
by DOCIAsport | May 14, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
It is seven years ago this month that I had my mental breakdown. My brilliant counsellor at the time told me she wasn’t surprised that I was severely depressed and suffering from panic attacks because as she said, “I’d had five years of vicarious trauma.” I had...
by DOCIAsport | Apr 24, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
The Long Win – a feelgood story of Danielle Brown PLY MBE I first met Dani on a Skype call in late 2013. My first impression of her was here is a broken woman, a shell of who she really is. Her first impression of me was ‘not another bloody male, pale and stale sports...
by DOCIAsport | Apr 2, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
Volunteering in sport – the essential but diminishing ingredient. “Get out” said my mother at her wits end. “Don’t come back till teatime and, you wait till your dad gets in.” Not the most auspicious start to 50 years in volunteering in a sector that has been an...
