‘Rugby is unique. It will happily welcome in anybody and everybody – whether you just want to watch the game, play the game, volunteer, get involved.’
Paul Wilson, Programme Manager at The Harlequins Foundation, joined us on this week’s Mentally Yours to talk about sport and mental health.
Paul talked in particular about the Harlequins’ Mettle programme – which has been taken into schools and universities to help develop young people’s mental resilience and coping strategies as well as stress management skills.
He talked through some of the techniques – such as breathing exercises – they go through in the 10-week programme, and outlined the exercise and nutrition element too.
Paul said: ‘The course is very much a fifty-fifty split between theory in the classroom and then getting them out, getting them active, giving them challenges, looking at pressures if you’re leading a group, if you’re not listened to in a group how does that make you feel –… Read the full story
from Metro http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/19/talk-sport-mental-health-harlequins-weeks-mentally-7324222/
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