398: Building Team Culture and Committing to the Now with Dr. Jeni Shannon, Director of Mental Health and Performance Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Jeni Shannon serves as the Director of the Carolina Athletics Mental Health and Performance Psychology Program. She is a Counseling and Sport Psychologist within the UNC Department of Sports Medicine, providing performance enhancement and psychological services to UNC student-athletes.   Shannon meets with individual student-athletes on a one-on-one basis and also works with teams to offer comprehensive and integrated mental health and performance psychology support. Additionally, she collaborates with other Athletic Department staffers to educate student-athletes on a range of topics related to mental health, well-being and optimal performance.   

 

A native of Phoenix, Ariz., Shannon earned both a master’s and a doctorate in counseling psychology with an emphasis in sport psychology at the University of Missouri. She also completed a pre-doctoral internship and a post-doctoral fellowship, both with a specialty in sport psychology, at the University of California, Davis.   She is a licensed psychologist, a Certified Consultant with AASP and a member of the USOC Sport Psychology Registry. She also serves on the advisory board for the Collegiate Clinical/Counseling Sport Psychology Association.   Shannon and her husband, Eric, live in Cary, N.C., with their son, Oliver, and daughter, Ivy.

 

In this episode, Jeni and Cindra talk about:

• Why committing to action under pressure is important for high performance
• How to train yourself to be in the present more often
• 3 strategies you can use to build team culture in sport and business
• How we can use our values to guide our decision making
• Why failure is a teacher

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