Find out who's who in the Managing Council...
The new Managing Council 2007-2011
On September the 5th, 2007, many ENYSSP members have voted and have chosen a new ENYSSP Managing Council. Discover our new ENYSSP managing council:
President : Caroline Jannes (BEL)
Caroline Jannes is a Belgian applied sport psychologist, working in her private practice Psy4Sport, Ghent, Belgium, and at the Centre for Sports Medicine at the Ghent University. She consult individual clients, trainers and clubs, and works with several federations such as the Flemish Track and Field League, the Flemish Basketball League and the Belgian Bowling Federation.
Her specialisation is mental coaching on sports injuries, although she also works on performance enhancement and aggression management. Furthermore, she's involved in a Flemish Project on Mental Counselling of Track and Field and Basketball trainers, where she educates trainers on improving mental skills in their athletes. She also teaches as an invited speaker at the Ghent University and Free University of Brussels.
Finally, she's an MC member of the Flemish Sport Psychology Federation and of ENYSSP.
Secretary General : Fredrik Weibull (SWE)
Fredrik Weibull has a European Masters’ in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Halmstad University in Sweden. He is a Swedish teacher and researcher in sport and exercise psychology at Halmstad University. He is currently involved in several research projects e.g., in imagery. He also has a private practice, Fredrik Weibull Consulting, working with individual athletes and teams in sport, and executives and employees in business. As a consultant he has worked with athletes in tennis, soccer and rhythmic gymnastics. At the moment he is mainly working in business with individualized imagery programs. Home page of Fredrik Weibul: www.fweibullconsulting.com
Treasurer: Eva García (ESP)
Education Department : Lara Lima (POR)
Lara Lima is a Portuguese and holds a master degree in Sport Psychology. Her original background is on sports science and education. And she has been involved with sport psychology since 2000 when she wrote a thesis on visualization in paragliding, for her first academic graduation.
She works on a voluntary basis with her classes of hidrogymnastics and swimming team, working on motivation and adhesion to regular exercise practise, as well as with yoga and pregnants.
She's mostly working on exercise with elder adults and teenagers and on sports with paraglidders and swimming athletes.
Furthermore, she's involved in the education of the fitness instructors of an well known fitness club, where she educates trainers on improving motivational skills in their trainees. Finally, she is teaching at UBI and having her own private practise.
Education Department: Olesya Leshchuk (RUS)
Olesya V. Leschuk is now a PhD student in the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism. She graduated from the Moscow University in 2007 with diploma of certificated specialist in General Psychology. She used to work as a teacher of psychology in the University. In 2007 began writing her PhD research. The topic of her investigations is a preparation for the physical activity in sport (especially in tennis). Now she works in a psychological lab in the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism, and also works as a sport psychologist with Russian national teams.
Research Department : Catarina Sousa (POR/ ESP)
Catarina Sousa is a Portuguese Post Doctoral at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and she is involved in the International Center for Talent Development directed by Professor Tara Scanlan. She is a Ph.D (2008) in Sport Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and she has been involved in research projects with the GEPE (Group of Studies in Sport Psychology), the research group directed by Professor Jaume Cruz. She also did a state of investigation at the University of Washington (UW, Seattle), directed by Professor Ronald E. Smith to collaborate on interventions’ programs for coaches’ behaviors (Sousa, Smith, & Cruz, 2008).
Her main areas of interest are sport commitment, coaches’ behaviors and program interventions for coaches and she is author on different academic publications in the Psychology of Sport.
In applied field, she has been working with young athletes from different sports (tennis, skating, soccer and swimming) and coaches.
Research Department: Nikos Zourbanos (GRE)
Nikos Zourbanos (Ph.D) is a Post Doctoral researcher (PAPA project, www.projectpapa.org) at the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Thessaly in Greece. His Ph.D. was supported by the State Scholarships Foundation under the supervision of Prof. YannisTheodorakis. He received his first degree at the University of Thessaly and the MSc in Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology at the University of Wales, Bangor, supported by the Onassis Foundation for M.Sc studies in the area of Applied Sport & Exercise Psychology, under the supervision of Prof. Lew Hardy and Dr. Tim Woodman. His main areas of interest are self-talk, personality, psychological skills and smoking cessation. He is a member of the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP), the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC), the Hellenic Society of Sport Psychology (HSSP) and the Psychological Society of Northern Greece (PSNG).
Applied Department : Lina Vaisetaite (LIT)
Lina Vaisetaite is a sport psychologist from Lithuania. Her original background is clinical psychology for which she has Masters Degree. She has been involved with sport psychology since 2001. First, she was doing it on a voluntary basis, however later she started working at the Vilnius Olympic Sport Centre as an applied sport psychologist.
After having worked there for a few years years, she has switched places and now she's working as an applied sport psychologist at the Lithuania Olympic Sport Centre. She has been involved in the activity of Lithuanian Association of Sport Psychology since 2003, and she is also a member of ENYSSP since 2005. She's mostly working with shooters, gymnasts, track-and-field athletes. In line with traditional mental skills training recently she has started employing biofeedback methods.
Applied Department : Giorgio Merola (ITA)
Giorgio Merola is an Italian Ph.D. from the University of Roma Tre in the Department of Educational Sciences where he is involved with Isabella Poggi in the research on multimodal communication. He has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and has attended the First Master in Sport Psychology in Rome by Alberto Cei and Fabio Lucidi, with whom he cooperated in several projects.
As a sport psychologist, he initially worked with track and field athletes and with a golf players; now he works with the FIGC (Italian Football Federation). He was involved in the development and of systematic protocols, and the writing of a book, edited by Luigi Pozzi, ("Lo Psicologo dello Sport nelle Scuole Calcio").
Past Coordinator : Xavier Sanchez (ESP/ UK)
Dr Xavier Sanchez (PhD, CPsychol) is currently Associate Professor in Sport Psychology at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Xavier possesses psychology and sport psychology degrees and has international (Netherlands, UK, Belgium, France, Spain) and multidisciplinary (psychology, sport sciences) experience in Higher Education (lecturing and research) and in the sport arena (sport psychology services delivery).
Xavier also sits in the Managing Council of the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC, period 07-11) and is member of British Psychological Society (BPS), British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES), and Catalan Association of Sport Psychology (ACPE), which awarded him with the ‘special membership’ status in 2003.
Xavier was the former President of ENYSSP (2003-07).
Webpage: http://www.rug.nl/staff/x.sanchez