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Hi, I'm Rebecca Williams, a dual qualified clinical psychologist and climbing instructor. Smart Climbing is a holistic approach to developing your climbing, and we weave yoga, technique, and ropework together with psychological knowledge to give a very different sort of climbing workshop. I'm based in Snowdonia where we run the open workshop, but can travel to you for private courses.

Saturday 6 June 2009

Finalising workshop plans !

A wet day in North Wales means a day off from cragging and a day just sorting out the final details for the workshop next weekend.  The workshop is full with 12 people attending, all with very different aims, experience, and sticking points, and as ever I am really looking forward to meeting everyone.  It is both challenging and rewarding to try to individualise the psychological techniques so everyone can take away something that works for them, to help them get the most out of their climbing.

So, the programme includes, climbing specific yoga, some mindfulness practice, some falling practice, movement and technique coaching, and self-rescue and ropework problem solving.  Hopefully the weather will cheer up again so we can be outside as much as possible but we can work around the weather!  Colin Goodey will also be speaking on the Saturday night about why he is still climbing at 72 years of age - and he has even more new routes under his belt since last year!  And the weekend would not be the same without coffee and cake courtesy of V12, and pizza's at the Gallt Y Glyn!

Just had a great update as well from one of last year's clients, you can read about it here ; always nice to hear that people are able to take things away from the workshop and put them into practise and take their climbing on a bit further.

So, all that remains for me to do today is, to make up folders for the clients for next weekend, and fit in a little indoor training session for myself as well as some stretching a meditation tonight!  A fulfilling wet Saturday!

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