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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 is a Swedish researcher at the Halmstad University. He's taking specific courses in applied sport psychology such as 'How to work as a psychological consultant with groups in sport and buisness' and he works with an elite soccer team. He is currently involved in several research projects e.g, about imagery. He is also starting his own business in sport psychology counseling and he is currently working as a sport psychology consultant for rhythmical gymnasts.
Treasurer: Jeroen Meganck (BEL)
After a master degree in clinical psychology Jeroen graduated from the EMESP in September 2001. After his graduation, Jeroen started working as an applied sport psychologist for the Flemish Institute for Elite Sports. In a pilot project of 8 months he was in charge of providing sport psychological training and counselling to adolescents elite athletes in different sports and creating a course for coaches on how to motivate their charges to implement correct eating behaviour. After the end of this project Jeroen started a private practice for sport psychological training and counselling and began working as a health psychology researcher at Hasselt University. The main objectives in the latter job are preventive health care and obesity. As a private practitioner, Jeroen works with athletes from recreational level to Olympians and all sports and ages.
Education Department : Lara Lima (POR)
Lara Lima is a Portuguese master student on 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.
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.
Education Department: Olesya Leshchuk (RUS)
Olesya Leshchuk will soon update you on her current professional activities !
Research Department : Catarina Sousa (POR/ ESP)
Catarina Sousa is a Portuguese Ph.D. student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, (UAB) with GEPE (Grup d'estudis de Psicologia de l'esport), the research group directed by Jaume Cruz. She teaches sport psychology practices at the UAB and she also participated in a project about Parents behaviours and parents interventions.
She has experience working with sport associations as she is in the managing council of ACPE (Asociacio Catalana de Psicologia de l esport) since 2004. Her principal research interests are sport commitment, young athletes and coaches interventions.
Research Department: Nikos Zourbanos (GRE)
Nikos Zourbanos is a Ph.D candidate of the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, at the University of Thessaly supported by a scholarship for doctoral studies 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 Sport 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 European Congress of Sport Sciences, the European Federation of Sport Psychology, the Hellenic Society of Sport Psychology and the Psychological Society of Northern Greece.
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)
Xavier Sanchez is currently Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the University of Chester (UK). Xavier possesses Psychology and Sport Psychology degrees, and has acquired international (UK, Belgium, France, Spain) and multidisciplinary (psychology, sport sciences) experience both in the Higher Education, by working in Psychology and Sport Sciences departments, and in the sport arena, through the delivery of sports psychology services.
Xavier also sits in the Managing Council of the following sport and exercise psychology governing bodies: the Belgian French-speaking Society of Sport Psychology (SBFPS), for which he was a founding member in 1998, and the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC, period 07-11). Xavier is also member of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) and the 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).