#030: Interview with Mikael Wallsbeck Founder of Imagine That in Stockholm, Sweden

Mikael Wallsbeck have a European Masters in Sport and Exercise
Psychology, from Högskolan in Halmstad. He is also educated in
psychotherapy in cognitive behavior therapeutic direction. Mikael
has been working as a leader with experience of working with
children and adolescence, specifically with LSS (Australian
equivalent to NDIA, National Disability Insurance Agency)


Today, he works with Gefle IF in football and Swedish Para Table
Tennis Team. He also works with students in sports psychology at
GIH (Gymnastik och idrottshögskolan in Stockholm).


His team at the company Imagine That, work with many
organizations, both corporate and sports to many to mention now.
He, together with Fredrik Weibull run a podcast Hjarnskrynklarna.
So, we got a lot to talk about.


02:58   Introduction to Mikal Wallsbeck


05:30   Mikael talks about his background in ice hockey
and about an incident, he later analysed he study sports
psychology.


12:16   The environment outside sport affects
performance. How does a coach and parent take this into
consideration? Mikael shares a story of a family under a lot of
stress and how this affected their son’s performance in sport.


21:11   Sweden produces more NHL ice hockey players
(per capita) in the world than any other country outside North
America. How is this possible? Early specialization is a topic
debated in Sweden and it is a move away from this. They don’t
believe it is so important.


25:38   How can we help athletes and parents go through
their sporting journey and, does parent's needs to help children
to be nicer to themselves?


40:56   We need to be more critical to our own sporting
environment. We need to consider what can create a negative
experience in our club?


43:39   The dream world image of youth sport


Contact:


Web: http://www.imaginethat.se/


Twitter: @MikaelWallsbeck