What is the ISN Human Performance Clinic?

 

The ISN Human Performance Clinic is located at the ISN Clinic Health and Wellbeing Centre, and is focused on the psychological and physiological factors that contribute to optimal performance and wellbeing. Our credentialled and experienced staff offer evidence-based assessments and interventions for individuals, groups, teams, and organizations that help people achieve their potential in sport, exercise, work, and life. Our approaches are based strongly on the principles of neuroscience and can help you understand and develop your capacities in the key areas underpinning human performance.

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What happens at the ISN Human Performance Clinic?

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Through a functional assessment of your needs, we match you, your team, or organisation with documented proficiencies in mental and physical performance. Once determined what is going to promote performance we work with you to develop specific approaches and skills in suitable areas of human performance. These will be tailored using the framework of competencies below.

 

• Foundational Competencies – These form a necessary base for optimal mental performance and mental health. They include Mental health and Wellbeing, Motivation, Self Concept (identity), and Self Efficacy (Competence/Confidence).

 

• Self-regulation Competencies – An individual’s capacity to regulate their performance and learning is essential to High Performance. The effectiveness of this involves Self Awareness, Emotional Recognition and Regulation and/or Acceptance, Stress Management, and Focus/Concentration.

 

• Interpersonal Competencies – People live and train in a dynamic interpersonal and social context. Having interpersonal skills that optimise mental health and create safe, productive environments conducive to learning and growth are achieved through Connection (Relationships), Effective Communication and Group/Team Dynamics, Teamwork, and capable Leadership and Fellowship

 

• Prescribed Exercise - Here you have the option to train by yourself, with a partner or even join our group classes all with a qualified Exercise Physiologist.  Our Exercise Physiologist will run through any medical concerns, your goals and complete fitness assessments to help tailor an exercise program to your specific needs and specific goals.

 

Each of these approaches and programs will be designed, tracked, and evaluated utilising Sport and Exercise Psychology together with Exercise Physiology principals that guide you through the whole process. Our staff will work with you the whole way through. 

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