On our first episode of season 5 we bring you one of our strongest episodes to date, as we have our minds well and truly blown by ACT expert Trevor Jones.

As a professional golfer, Trevor is someone who has lived experience of the demands of elite sport as an athlete. Since a lightbulb moment in competition, Trevor has lived and breathed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in all areas of his life. Since then he has pursued a career as a Mental Performance Coach. Currently working under the AWARE Performance Group, Trev has shown thousands of people (including both of your co-hosts) the power of ACT, allowing them to be in contact with what matters most to them.

Today we cover athletic identity, something that we've spoken about loads on the podcast. This season, we wanted to cover it slightly differently than we have before. This episode is experiential in nature and to get the most out of it we'd encourage you (if possible) to engage in all the exercises and prompts that Trevor offers, as we did!

We are delighted with this episode and extremely thankful to Trevor for coming on and doing his thing - he's pretty good at it after all.

Please let us know what you think of this episode and give us 5 stars if you enjoyed it.

Trevor is currently writing a book on the yips, keep up to date with this and much more on his socials:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-jones-036857110/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trevorjones_aware?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

1. Intro and Welcome to Episode (00:00)

2. Trevor's Lightbulb Moment (7:45)

3. Pairing Identity with Performance (25:20)

4. Perspective Taking and Identity (32:00)

5. Persona or 'Mask' (46:35)

6. Donut SAC Exercise (56:00)

7. Values (1:13:00)

8. Closing thoughts (1:20:00)