The International Perspective from ISSP Gangyan Si Toluca, Mexico May 9, 2014

ISSP Mission  To promote research, practice, and development in the discipline of sport and exercise psychology throughout the world  - encourage and promote the study of human behaviour within sport, physical activity, and health settings  - facilitate the sharing of knowledge through a newsletter/website, meetings and a quadrennial congress  - improve the quality of research and professional practice in sport psychology  To endeavour to foster peace and understanding among people from all countries

ISSP International Collaboration  With AMPDAF  With FEPSAC  With AASP  With ASPASP  With Spanish Society  With Africa Society  With Arab Society  With SOSUPE  With Catalan Association  Iberian Society

ISSP Scientific Events  ISSP World Congresses Organization of the 2017 ISSP World Congress of SP, Seville, Spain  Denis Glencross Workshop （ Pre-ISSP Congress ） - To pay tribute to the memory of President Denis Glencross (since 1993) - Two-days Pre-congress workshop for students and young scholars

 Associated to the Annual MC meetings 2010: “International Seminar of Sport Psychology”, Florianóplolis, Brazil, 1-3 June 2011: International Scientific Symposium “Sport Psychology Application” Hong-Kong, 6-7 November 2012: “II Dubai International Sport Psychology Symposium”, Dubai,19-20 September 2013: ISSP World Congress, Beijing, China, July 2014: International Conference of Sport Psychology, Toluca, Mexico, 9 May 2015: ISSP 50 th Anniversary and Sport Psychology Conference, Rome, Italy, April 2016: ……

ISSP Future Perspective  To increase the cooperation with other International Societies as one of the main issues in ISSP goals & activities  To provide support to the colleagues/professionals in less developed geographic regions (in terms of sport and exercise psychology)  to advocate combining scientific with cultural competence training together  international certification of consultant  professional education and training based on the regional/ national requests)  To promote S & E Psychology from a worldwide perspective via:  increasing quality of the IJSEP & being the most international journal of S & E Psychology  increasing quality of the ISSP website  publishing high quality books  organizing world congress and regional conference