A brief letter to support Cath Bishop fantastic article on culture in sport amp.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar…

Today I was happy to be talking about perfectionism on the Gymnastics Growth Show with the lovely Nick Ruddock. Not out yet, but wow does he have a long list of other pods to catch up on in the meantime! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gym…

The pursuit of perfect often eclipses the joy of progress. Perfectionism isn't a badge of honour, it's an obstacle to happiness.

Well, we said the relationship between perfectionism and sport performance was not straightforward. Lead by Sanna Nordin-Bates with Prof Daniel Madigan and Dr Luke Olsson doi.org/10.1016/j.psyc…

Congratulations to Sanna Nordin-Bates for winning the 2023 IADMS Dance Educator Award. So well deserved for all she does for the dance community.

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Yesterday, two of our founding members were invited to meet with the Minister of Sport to contribute to a roundtable discussion about the difficulties associated with reporting abuse in sport. Their contributions were well received & we look forward to seeing how things progress.

Just finished 'what we become in flight- a memoir' by Ellen Ellen O'Connell Whittet as part of my ongoing research into ballet (and aesthetic sport) culture. I can thoroughly recommend it - not only for that topic, but also for its gorgeous language and deep humanity ❣️

...and there it was, in Swedish! Go Thomas Curran, this is great to see reaching so far! 💪🏾🤓

Gymnastics Canada Appoints Kacey Neely as Director, Safe Sport Responsible for Safe Sport Development 👏🏼👏🏼 newswire.ca/news-releases/…

New paper 👀

A systematic review of quantitative studies concerning psychological aspects of early specialisation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Walking back from a ballet gala in Zurich this evening and saw this on a street corner. It's lucky I accepted almost all your suggested changes to that latest paper, Andy Hill ...!

Research participation opportunity 🩰

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We are looking for groups of HE dance students to take part in our study about mental health and well-being in dance this semester.

Prof Jennifer Cumming, Dr Mary Quinton, Sanna Nordin-Bates

Get in touch with Emma: [email protected]

🤸🏿‍♀️🩰📣 Participants Needed 📣🩰🤸🏿‍♀️

Female dancers/aesthetic athletes (e.g. gymnasts/divers) for a study about emotional abuse, perfectionism & injuries. Participating just means completing a 15-minute online survey 👇🏼
🔗 sunet.artologik.net/gih/Survey/115…

Pls RT and share freely 🔄📊🎭

Sanna Nordin-Bates #wellbeing #wellness #dancers #performingarts #health #education

There's still time to be involved in this study!

The online survey will be open for another few weeks, so please do share with your contacts in ballet and aesthetic sports😊

This book is out today. Edited books can only be as good as the contributors. Thank you to all the amazing contributors. routledge.com/The-Psychology…

🌟NEW STUDY🌟

My colleagues and I at GIH have begun collecting data for a study about perfectionism, emotional abuse, and injuries.

We are recruiting people from all over the world 🌍

Please share if you have contacts from aesthetic sports or ballet🤸‍♀️

What a lovely review of Charlotte Downings Charlotte Downing work! @bakerjyorku it was an honour and a privilege to have you over in Stockholm as the external 🙏

Pleased this is open access Dr. Danielle Molnar. Hope it is shared far & wide:
Molnar et al. (2023). “I need to be perfect or else the world’s gonna end”: A qualitative analysis of adolescent perfectionists’ ... understanding of their perfectionism. Can. Psych. doi.org/10.1037/cap000…

Eagerly anticipating Routledge Books The Art and Science of Ballet Dancing and Teaching by Janet Karin routledge.com/The-Art-and-Sc… #dancers #mentalhealth #ballet #danceteachers