Trainers
The Trainers MindUP Enhacement Psychology ® are professionals who have made the entire training course specific to the method and protocols to be applied.
Lorenzo Baldassarri, Senior Trainer, Method Developer
Since he was a child he has been in the world of sport, playing football for over 20 years and then becoming a coach in the football school of his hometown team. Already as a university student he became an advisor for the educational aspects of the football club. Subsequently he held, in a new sports club, the role of educational manager as a psychologist, creating ad hoc projects. He is involved in professional sport starting from the years of his specialization in Psychology and Functional Psychotherapy and completing his specialization in Sport Psychology and Coaching, becoming responsible for the "mental" area of an international sports psychology center. He has worked with athletes of the highest level: Formula 1 drivers (he personally followed Charles Leclerc for 3 years), DTM Team BMW drivers, Serie A players, sailors, freedivers, tennis players, Olympic medalists and many young people adolescents initiated into the world of professional sport. He elaborated and developed a specific protocol of integrated mental training derived from his training in Functional Psychology, which was the subject of his specialization thesis entitled "Functional Protocol for the Sportsperson" (official text at this link, in Italian) in which he described objectives, methodology and process to be put into practice to improve the athlete's personal resources, so as to enrich and implement his performances. This protocol is the applied method that arises from the theory of Empowerment Psychology.
Andrea Giammaria, Senior Trainer, Method Developer
He has always had a passion and a propensity for individual outdoor sports, which he has practiced since he was a child, in particular in the summer and winter mountaineering context. For many years he has experimented in contexts of psychophysical health promotion with adolescents and pre-adolescents, creating and participating in projects involving schools and sports clubs. Being very fond of endurance sports, he subsequently became interested (after his scientific and psychological training) in the aspect related to performance and mental strength that this type of activity requires, like the physical one.
Andrea, in addition to his first training, wanted to enrich his background through the specialization in Functional Psychology and during this journey he met his colleague Lorenzo Baldassarri a decade ago. An affinity for planning and intervention was created immediately: what until now was proposed as mental training was not enough for him! There was no real integrated vision of the athlete and so they built a new model of Applied Psychology: the Psychology of Empowerment. After years of study and application, 2021 saw the official theoretical birth of the Psychology of Empowerment, of which he is co-founder. He joins the MindUp - Strengthening Psychology project and becomes a trainer by applying the model with athletes in particular athletics, cycling, triathlon and rugby. He has almost twenty years of experience in group training.
Andrea, in addition to his first training, wanted to enrich his background through the specialization in Functional Psychology and during this journey he met his colleague Lorenzo Baldassarri a decade ago. An affinity for planning and intervention was created immediately: what until now was proposed as mental training was not enough for him! There was no real integrated vision of the athlete and so they built a new model of Applied Psychology: the Psychology of Empowerment. After years of study and application, 2021 saw the official theoretical birth of the Psychology of Empowerment, of which he is co-founder. He joins the MindUp - Strengthening Psychology project and becomes a trainer by applying the model with athletes in particular athletics, cycling, triathlon and rugby. He has almost twenty years of experience in group training.
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