choose your focus
Create your experience.
Name a mind by how it moves,
how it thinks, and how it proves.
A pattern seen, a box applied.
Way of being? Classified.
If I believe what I am named,
who wrote the script I then became?
performance psychology podcasts
Dr. Martin J. Turner is an internationally recognised, award-winning researcher, practitioner, and author, widely regarded as a leading expert in applying Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) to sport and performance. With over 80 peer-reviewed articles, books, and book chapters, Martin’s work explores how beliefs, stress, and adversity influence wellbeing and performance under pressure, spanning elite sport, military, corporate, and healthcare settings. The following conversations between Martin J. Turner and Ruth Lindroos offer often-overlooked blind spots in sport and performance psychology, pressure, beliefs, and human behaviour.
May 27, 2026
January 8, 2026
The RSCF
The RSCF guides coaches to build an adversity-resistant climate by ‘belief modification’.
The Rational Sport Coaching Framework (RSCF) guides coaches and performers to build a coaching climate supporting effective responses to adversity. Four fundamental principles translate psychological theory into practical advances to recognise and work with beliefs, appraisals and responses that shape performance and wellbeing.
From 2022, Ruth led the RSCF development in collaboration with internationally recognised researchers Dr. Martin J. Turner and Dr. Martin Dixon. Theoretical foundations draw on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, the Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes, and research on reflective practice in elite sports.
The framework provides a roadmap to examine and redirect interpretations and responses to high stress. The aim is to educate purposeful action under pressure while fostering a coaching climate where development and wellbeing can advance together.
Ruth directly applies RSCF principles in her work, helping clients recognise patterns, question unhelpful beliefs and integrate alternative responses in practice. The RSCF is a registered trademark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
mental performance coaching
mental performance coaching
Build capacity to confront setbacks, utilise strengths and think clearly under pressure.
Drawing on the RSCF principles, given sessions combine focused reflection, theory-informed assessment, practical tasks and goal evaluation.
This mental performance program targets a specific challenge or long-term goal. The program supports you to examine beliefs shaping your performance, work with performance challenges, performance areas, and develop responses supporting both performance and wellbeing.
When applicable, lucid dreaming classes and resistance exercises can be integrated in mental performance training as agreed.
Format: Personal coaching online or in person
Price: 95 euros per session / 10 sessions for 700 euros
Group training and lectures: Contact for a tailored quot
Get started by booking a free 30 minute online consultation
strength and conditioning
strength and conditioning
Build strength, move with confidence, and develop the physical capacity to author your story. Strength and conditioning training combines progressive resistance exercises, mobility, sensory exercises and endurance work.
The training plan is developed with you, in service of both short- and long-term goals.
Training plan includes:
Consultation and screening
Personally built training program
Fitness and mobility testing (when delivered in person)
Guidelines for measurements
Periodisation
Personal coaching sessions (70 minutes)
Online support
Lucid dreaming and mental performance training content can be included in strength and conditioning training, as agreed upon.
Format: Personal coaching online or in person
Price: 95 euros per session / 10 sessions for 700 euros
Group training: Contact for a tailored quote.
Get started by booking a free 30 minute online consultation