The Library
Recent Work
Case studies from the field, climbing writing, and 18 articles on the psychology of training and performance.
The Library
Case studies from the field, climbing writing, and 18 articles on the psychology of training and performance.
Case Studies
Psychology delivered with organisations working in demanding, high-consequence environments.
Healthcare · Emergency
Managing trauma and building resilience in extreme medicine.
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Rescue Services
Building resilience and processing identity transitions for frontline lifeboat crews.
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Search & Rescue
Supporting casualties with heightened emotions, and building resilience to trauma among the rescuers themselves.
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Search & Rescue
Supporting casualties in heightened emotional states, and managing the stress of a callout.
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Ultra-Endurance
Mental preparation for ultra-distance cycling across challenging terrain and unpredictable conditions.
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Climbing
Fear, falling and confidence on the wall — the psychology behind what holds climbers back.
Climbing · Fear
Why avoiding falls keeps fear alive — and four tools that actually shift it. Includes a free recorded talk.
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Climbing · Talks
What we covered at The Foundry, Outside and The Climbing Works — and how to get the recording free.
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Climbing · Risk
A three-step decision framework for serious routes, and a pyramid of experience to build the judgement beneath it.
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Performance Psychology
A series on goals, motivation, how to design practice that actually sticks, and what happens when the moment matters. Climbing-led examples throughout, with running, cycling and expedition work alongside.
Goals, motivation, resilience, anxiety and preparation — the ground everything else stands on.
Foundations
Outcome, performance and process goals — and why the things you do repeatedly are what move you towards the result.
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Foundations
Competence, autonomy and relatedness — building a way of training that gives you reasons to return.
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Foundations
Work, hobbies, relationships and personal growth — why resilience is about what supports you, not how tough you are.
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Foundations
What the anxiety response actually is, how thoughts, body and behaviour interact, and what genuinely helps.
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Foundations
Identify the demands, separate what you can control from what you can't, and rehearse adapting to the rest.
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How to design practice so that what you learn is still there next week, and works somewhere new.
Training
Why the same task isn't equally hard for everyone, and how to pitch practice so errors become information.
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Training
Reduce competing demands to make a skill accessible, then add complexity that earns its place.
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Training
Why distributed practice and intelligent breaks produce learning that is still there next week.
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Training
Practising adaptation rather than repetition — and why transfer is the reason for the variation.
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Training
What you score shapes what people practise. Designing play that still serves the learning.
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What happens when it matters: routines, imagery, self-talk, attention and pressure.
Performance
How perceived demands and perceived resources shape your response to moments that matter.
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Performance
Knowing what readiness looks like for you, and building a sequence where every element has a job.
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Performance
Rehearsing the actions that support performance, including how you will cope when it doesn't go to plan.
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Performance
Noticing the recurring script, and choosing cues that are believable and useful rather than simply positive.
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Performance
Broad or narrow, internal or external — putting attention where the situation actually needs it.
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Performance
When a familiar skill breaks down under pressure, more conscious control isn't always the answer.
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Performance · Resilience
Process focus, body grounding, and self-talk — the three levers that break the anxiety cycle.
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Performance · Wellbeing
How the comparisons we make quietly shape our performance — and how to work with them instead of against them.
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