Performance Lifestyle
Performance Lifestyle and Wellbeing is designed to support people to create the unique environment necessary for their success. The aim is to support, develop and empower people to consider the wider components of their life that influence performance.
What do we offer?:
Taking a holistic approach to wellbeing to maximise performance we can support individuals, teams, and groups through a range of workshops tailored to your specific needs with content, delivery time and frequency.
| Workshop | Description | Duration |
| Introduction to Performance Lifestyle and Wellbeing |
This interactive session introduces wellbeing to understand what makes us flourish and why it is important for out mental health. We do this by looking at how balanced we feel, what makes us stressed, how we can find more happiness in our lives and maximise how we spend our time.
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60 - 90 minute sessions |
| Wellbeing series | Taking a holistic development approach, each session will focus on a different element if wellbeing to understand what makes us flourish and why it is important for out mental health. | 3-6 x 30-60 minute sessions |
| Effective Communication, Values & Leadership | This session weaves leadership and communication theory through practical tasks to develop young leaders. | 60 - 90 minute sessions |
| 1:1 Personal development coaching & mentoring | 1:1 individual support can be provided by one of our experienced and trained Performance Lifestyle Mentors / Advisors to develop lifestyle management skills to help balance sporting commitments with other areas of their life. | 45 -60 minute sessions |
MENTiS Consortium
Loughborough University is proud to be part of the MENTiS consortium.
"MENTiS aims to strengthen the mental health support initiatives within European talent development and elite sport organizations by directly targeting entourage members’ mental health literacy, mental health first aid competences, and mental health self-care competences"
Loughborough Sport has contributed to the creation and refinement of educational resources and tools. Roll out of these out the workshops to the entourage, including interdisciplinary teams and parents of student athletes, began in August 2024.
We look forward to sharing more of these with you following the completion of the project.
If you would like to find out more, please visit their website, or email Sabrina Cox.
Testimonials
‘We had an excellent performance lifestyle workshop where the instructors were highly engaging and tailored their approach perfectly for our students. As a result, the students gained a more profound insight into teamwork and the various skills required for effective collaboration. This experience definitely sparked introspective thoughts among the students, and conversations stemming from the workshop continued long after it concluded.’
Sherborne School (August 2023)
Our staff:
Simon Wombwell
Education and Development Manager
Programme lead for Performance Lifestyle since 2013 Simon drives the development and delivery of the holistic support programme for performance level student athletes. Simon is a member of the TASS National Lifestyle Advisory group and actively involved in European and national level research. Alongside this role Simon also holds the honorary role of Warden at Falkner Eggington Hall which provides excellent insight into wider student society and a strong partnership with University central support services.
Previously Simon worked to facilitate high performance environments as an Events Manager working in partnership with the RFU, LTA, UKA and MCCU for 3 years alongside with coaching within Athletics to a senior international standard and mentored within the Loughborough Sport Performance Lifestyle programme. Simon studied at Loughborough graduating from the Geography with Sport and Leisure Management BSc in 2007 completed alongside the avid pursuit of 110mH – Athletics.
Sabrina Cox
Performance Lifestyle and Wellbeing Officer
Sabrina joined the team in January 2024 as a Performance Lifestyle and Wellbeing Officer at Loughborough University.
Sabrina began her Coaching Career working for a Coach Training Company, supporting the delivery of a Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Personal Coaching. Following this she worked as an Associate Executive Coach, working mostly with Heads of Service or Managers within large corporate organisations, to support the implementation of a coaching culture and strategy.
She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Personal Coaching and a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching Supervision and is currently completing a Level 4 in Careers Advice and Guidance. Sabrina also holds a strong passion for sport, personally completing many long distance running and Triathlon events, having previously worked as a PT.
We are further supported by a team of mentors that offer a wide range of experience and expertise in sport, mentoring and performance lifestyle that we can match with those looking for 1:1 support.
Contact person:
Laura Piekarski – Performance Lifestyle and Wellbeing Coordinator