by DOCIAsport | Jul 19, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
And breathe! The Euros are over and the vicarious trauma of watching England has stopped. We can empty the recycling bin of cans, settle the account with Deliveroo and prepare to go again in a week’s time with the start of the Olympics in the Paris Games. The Euros...
by DOCIAsport | Jul 4, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
I’m feeling restless. Maybe it’s the election that’s the cause. I think there’s a sense of inevitability about the outcome and whilst a new government will cause uncertainty there’s also a sense of opportunity that should be grasped too. The need for change is, I...
by DOCIAsport | Jun 10, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
In 2021 in the midst of the pandemic and lockdown I hosted a Zoom call from my home in Sussex. At the other end of the country in Wigan, Lancashire, there were over forty people on the call interested to learn what the concept of a “Community Wellbeing Hub” could look...
by DOCIAsport | May 14, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
It is seven years ago this month that I had my mental breakdown. My brilliant counsellor at the time told me she wasn’t surprised that I was severely depressed and suffering from panic attacks because as she said, “I’d had five years of vicarious trauma.” I had...
by DOCIAsport | Apr 24, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
The Long Win – a feelgood story of Danielle Brown PLY MBE I first met Dani on a Skype call in late 2013. My first impression of her was here is a broken woman, a shell of who she really is. Her first impression of me was ‘not another bloody male, pale and stale sports...
by DOCIAsport | Apr 2, 2024 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
Volunteering in sport – the essential but diminishing ingredient. “Get out” said my mother at her wits end. “Don’t come back till teatime and, you wait till your dad gets in.” Not the most auspicious start to 50 years in volunteering in a sector that has been an...
