Performance Through Health

Context of Exposure Work for Resilience with Elite Performance Consultant Dan Cooper

17 Jan 2022

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Dan is dedicated to changing the perception of human capability. An ex SAS member with 22 years in the military (18 in special ops), he is no stranger to colossal adversity. Dan is an extreme adventurer and an academic, with a bachelor of science, dual master’s degrees and a current PhD research project on eliciting peak performance within high threat, complex environments. Dan has achieved what many would consider impossible, taking his knowledge and research and applying it personally, from ultra marathons in the desert to a 750km trek across the frozen subarctic wilderness to the Crossfit masters, where he was named Top 80 Fittest in the World. In this episode, we discuss: 00:00 Introduction 07:32 Letting children build resilience 11:29 Safety and human connection 19:30 Embracing change 27:00 Fitting in vs belonging 30:00 Inauthenticity and burnout 33:00 Letting go of identities 39:40 The need for context 44:37 Breathwork for resilience 52:40 Breathing is building awareness 55:30 Context of exposure work 58:49 Interoception, emotions and perception 01:03:31 Predicting outcomes 01:06:00 Mechanisms of response under threat 01:11:45 Self-regulation and fear 01:14:35 Motivation vs avoidance behaviours are domain-specific 01:19:04 The cost of elite performance You can find out more about Dan and the work he does at https://komanchi.com.au, or by visiting his social media https://instagram.com/dancooper_msc or https://instagram.com/the_resilience_lab on instagram. You find more episodes on human performance you can visit https://performancethroughhealth.com/category/podcast/ or my instagram https://instagram.com/performancethroughhealth

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Performance Through Health

Context of Exposure Work for Resilience with Elite Performance Consultant Dan Cooper

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13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

2ª PARTE | 06 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 22 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 04 MAR 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

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