I love to learn new things.  Whether it’s a formal qualification or exploring life in general, I just love to find out new things.  I am the adult version of the boy I used to be.  Whilst I’ve grown out of digging holes in my parents’ garden, turning over the stones in my mum’s rockery, and poking frogs with a stick, I’ve merely traded them in and exchanged them for reading books, exploring cultures, and watching people interact.  I’m still as inquisitive as I used to be, just less inclined to get told off for wrecking the garden and coming home covered in mud and bits of wildlife!

Whilst there’s no way to quantify the knowledge I’ve gleamed from life (which, incidentally, I feel is far more important than any formal qualification), here are the recognised elements of my learnings.

• BSc Sports Fitness & Psychology (due 2012)

  The scientific and coaching knowledge relevant to professional practice in instructional settings in sport and fitness, including some awareness of aspects of management. Exploring anxiety, self-confidence, concentration, group dynamics, the psychology of injury, exercise dependence, and mental skills training.

• Certified NLP Practitioner with BANLP, IANLP & ILM

  NLP is the practice of understanding how people organise their thinking, feeling, language and behaviour to produce the results they do. NLP provides people with a methodology to model outstanding performances achieved by geniuses and leaders in their field.A key element of NLP is that we form our unique internal mental maps of the world as a product of the way we filter and perceive information absorbed through our five senses from the world around us.

• Certified Hypnotherapy Practitioner with BIH & ILM

  Hypnotherapy uses Hypnosis to induce a deep state of relaxation, during which our sub or unconscious minds are highly receptive to new perspectives and ideas. The reason Hypnosis is so effective lies in the extreme power of our unconscious mind, which is responsible for keeping us safe and helping us.

  Our unconscious mind takes care of all our automatic responses, such as the regulation of our breathing, blood circulation and tissue repair, all without us having to consciously think about it. But the unconscious mind also stores all our learned responses. In order to modify some of these responses, habits or even behaviours, we must first access the unconscious mind and re-programme it.

• FA Level 1 in Coaching Football

  - Safely organise and supervise football activities including Mini Soccer, Small Sided and Conditional Games
  - Promote and establish working relationships and high standards between players, coaches, parents and officials
  - Understand different aspects of coaching children
  - Identify and adapt football activities and sessions for a variety of different age groups
  - Identify personal development opportunities in football including sports therapy, administration and officiating.

• FA Match & Player Analysis

  - How to analyse players in matches
  - How to read the development of a game
  - How to learn from previous matches when planning for future games

• FA Psychology for Soccer

  - What motivates players
  - How people prefer to train
  - How to give effective feedback
  - How external people can influence players

• FA Fitness in Football

  - The key elements of fitness
  - How to be a healthier footballer
  - What foods you should eat and when
  - How to stretch properly before a game
  - How to warm up and cool down

• 3 A Levels

  Business Studies, Computer Studies, General Studies

• 1 AS Level

  Accounting

• 8 GSCEs: 2 As, 5Bs, 1C

  English Language, Geography, English Literature, Science, Maths, Spanish, Graphic Design, Computing