Resilience and Mental Toughness with Nathan Sherratt

2023-03-15

Nathan Sherratt is an active referee and managing director of The Third Team. He supports referees with Resilience & Mental Toughness to Enhance Performance & Improve Mental Health. He witnessed extremely violent conflict and that is one of the reasons for setting up The Third Team, because of the way he felt afterwards. A younger, less experienced referee might not have had the level of focus and resilience he did to deal with that kind of situation. Incidents such as those could have seen younger, less experienced referees po...

Nathan Sherratt is an active referee and managing director of The Third Team. He supports referees with Resilience & Mental Toughness to Enhance Performance & Improve Mental Health.

He witnessed extremely violent conflict and that is one of the reasons for setting up The Third Team, because of the way he felt afterwards. A younger, less experienced referee might not have had the level of focus and resilience he did to deal with that kind of situation. Incidents such as those could have seen younger, less experienced referees potentially quitting the role. For any referee the most difficult thing to deal with is a mass confrontation, particularly if you are on your own, because you’ve only got one set of eyes on something that could involve 22 players and numerous officials from both clubs. When an incident has a severe violent ramification such as an assault where the police become involved it can be very difficult. You have to work alongside the Police to give as much information as possible. He thinks that adrenaline got him through that moment but after the match and for a few days afterwards actually, he was badly affected by it. It wasn’t easy for him to brush it off.

That incident was the inspiration for the business. Though he looks at the business as a wider entity, not just dealing with pressurised situations like that. He looks at Positive Mental Health, Resilience and Mental Toughness development to try and maximise the potential of referees, workforces and students.

In addition, Nathan works with schools, colleges, universities and in industry communicating similar messages through the vehicle of refereeing.

Nathan is also a Mental Health Ambassador and Speaker.

Contacts

Email: nathan@thethirdteam.co.uk

Website: https://thethirdteam.co.uk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeAreTheThirdTeam

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpJgLBkBLtQM0XdOzVZ63Kg

Twitter: https://twitter.com/The3rdTeam

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-third-team

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wearethethirdteam/

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