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This Powerpoint Presentation shows how one can harmonise Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition and Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle for Mind-Body Health and Self-Empowerment, and brings together the series of 4 videos on Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition and Lifestyle on Carmel’s YouTube channel – ‘Performance Confidence & Self Care’.

This one change to our diets can make such a huge difference to our Mind-Body Health, Performance and Wellbeing. Sugar is all around us and destroying our health, without us being aware of the consequences. Yet it is the one thing that we can take control of with spectacular results. I also give sweet substitutes. [...]

You can download a PDF copy of Carmel’s presentation, How To Overcome Overwhelm – So You Perform At Your Best, to the 14th World Piano Conference 2022 below.     Carmel’s video presentation to the conference is also available on her YouTube channel, Performance Confidence & Self Care.

All types of experience matter – not only a wide work experience, but life experience with personal development throughout one's lifetime.   Honing one's talents and skills begins generally in childhood, taking many years of 'Sharpening the Saw'. Life experiences (both good and difficult) become important for understanding oneself and others. Learning to embrace new [...]

This short 4 slide PowerPoint Presentation is a summary in point form to complement my comprehensive YouTube video with the same title: 7 Self Care Habits to Prevent Burnout.

This short Powerpoint Presentation shows the significance of my latest book/ebook within the trilogy of works for my Holistic Performance Model. This book’s ‘Etudes’ (case studies) as centrepiece highlight the revolutionary stories of tertiary performance participants who trialled my holistic ‘Training Program for Performance Enhancement’ which they themselves declared gave them Performance Confidence – hence [...]

You can download a PDF copy of Carmel’s presentation, New Self Care Considerations: Mind-Body Health Governs Performance Outcomes, to the 13th World Piano Conference 2021 below.     Carmel’s video presentation to the conference is also available on her YouTube channel, Performance Confidence & Self Care.

Pianist and innovative music educator, Carmel Liertz, is an international performance coach with an extensive background in Music Performance, Performance Education, and Performance Research. Tertiary performance and pedagogy studies were undertaken in Australia and Germany. While teaching performance at university, she became interested in applying Sport Psychology’s successful Mental Training and Sport Nutrition principles to […]

Scientific and psychological studies show that the mind and body are not separate entities but interconnected. People are learning about the connection between good mental health and good physical health for performers, this being a two-way process. When your mental health declines, your physical health is affected negatively, and, if your physical health declines, it […]

What is Self Belief? Why is it crucial for your Self Confidence? How can you nurture your Self Belief? Subscribe to my YouTube channel to stay up to date, Performance Confidence & Self Care

Attentional Focus is a main challenge of the digital age. A high level of Attentional Focus is essential for Training/Practice and for Performance or Presentation. The two types – broad focus and narrow focus (defined in Sport Psychology) – are both required, along with the ability to switch between these two types. Broad focus is […]

Do you find memorising music challenging? Most musicians are familiar with aural and tactile forms of memorisation, maybe even kinaesthetic (muscle memory/body movements) but no so familiar with photographic memorisation – 'seeing' the music in one's head – as groups of notes and structural layout. Combining these 4 types can give more secure memory, increasing [...]

I am excited to be invited to the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia June 27 - July 3, 2019.   I am to give a Lecture and Performance Coaching at this International Conference comprising Lectures, Recitals, Masterclasses and Coaching as well as an International Piano Competition – all within the space of 7 [...]

Performance Confidence is a skill you can learn. So why not learn it? Performance stress falls away when you focus on confident performance. The same ‘mind-body awareness’ strategies used by elite athletes can be applied for music performance, workplace performance, and presentation. Mind-body fitness becomes the solid foundation with my unique holistic approach – an [...]