School of Sports Thinking
In 1997, in Melbourne, SOT began the School of Sports Thinking program. Sports Thinkers are introduced to cvs2bvs–new brain software–X10 Thinking and other techniques for strategic thinking. The first two graduates were Shane Smith (Triathlete) and Mickie Smith (Badminton).
“Since the brain is the biggest sports muscle in the human body, acquiring virtuosity in Sports Thinking is an important part of strategic development in any competitive sporting environment–both on and off the field”.
- Founder, Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, 1997.
Sports Thinking programs have been used by amateur and professional members of most sports from triathletes to golfers, from footballers to athletics.
Triathletes use cvs2bvs to get better (and ‘better’ means more clever) at swimming, cycling and running. 1998 Canadian Ironman, Shane Smith, won his medal at Penticton BC and presented it to the School of Sports Thinking saying, “I used cvs2bvs to plan my strategy to win it”.
Sportspeople also use cvs2bvs to get better at relationships and parenting, better at solving business problems, better at career-planning, better at creating opportunities, better at making decisions, better at handling family matters, better at dealing with personal situations, better at getting better, better at anything!
Olympic Gold medalist, Peter Vidmar, is another sports advocate of cvs2bvs. Peter was the first ever to get a perfect 10 in gymnastics and did so at the XXIII Olympiad Los Angeles in 1984. He used to say, “cvs2bvs plus ROV!”
Gymnasts, Peter explained, were rated on Risk, Originality and Virtuosity or ROV. All Olympians were presented with a beautiful full-colour, hardbound Commemorative Book by the IOC as a souvenir of their participation in the games. In appreciation, Peter presented his copy to Dr Mchael Hewitt-Gleeson with the inscription, “CVS to BVS + ROV”.
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SOT: Melbourne, 24 June 2008: An icon of Australian Football League, and widely acknowledged as the most innovative and influential coach, has been honoured as the 2008 Australian Thinker of the Year.
Player and coach for more than 40 years, with the unsurpassed record of eight premierships and 1000 games under his belt, AFL Legend Kevin ‘Sheeds’ Sheedy is presented with the prestigious award by Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, Principal SOT, in a special ceremony at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) in Melbourne on Tuesday 24 June.
The Thinker of the Year award was created in 2005 by the School of Thinking (SOT) in conjunction with the Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre to recognise the contribution Australian thinkers make both nationally and globally.
Dr Michael Hewitt Gleeson, Principal of SOT says, ‘Kevin Sheedy is a strategic thinker, a person that pushes the boundaries and consistently thinks outside the square. Previous recipients of the Australian Thinker of the Year award have originated from the medical and scientific world but this year’s award acknowledges Kevin as one of the great sports thinkers in Australia.
‘A man who has been at the forefront of the evolution of football, from encouraging young Aboriginal people to play the game or ‘dance on the right stage’ as Kevin puts it, to promoting and supporting players from other countries,’ Michael says.
These days Sheedy spends his time as AFL Ambassador developing the idea of an AFL World Cup and delivering powerful motivational sessions on positive and lateral thinking to corporate staff and management. He is also the co-author of six books.
Kevin Sheedy AM joins past Thinker of the Year award recipients, Professor Michael Georgeff (2005), Professor German Spangenberg (2006), and Professor Jenny Graves (2007).
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