Sport
Psychology
Mind over Matter
The Process
Workshop
Applied Practice
Consultation
Performance Profile Psychological
Mapping
Game and Training
Situations
One to One
Emotional
Intelligence
Emotional
Intelligence
Handbook
Mental Toughness
Handbook
Game, Training,
Education and
Personal Situations
Game and Training
Situations
One to One and in
Groups
Sport Psychologists
Handbook
Individual Mental
Skills Presentations
Game and Training
Situations
One to One and in
Groups
Mental Toughness
Mental Skills
Assessment Guide
One to One and in
Groups
This will be a four week rolling process; a fifth week will be given over to evaluation and
reflection. The process will support all teams through theory, practical and competition.
Assessment
and
Testing of
Participants
Research
Roles of a
Design and
Delivery of
Training
Courses
Sport
Psychologist
Group
Work
One to one
Coaching
The above model identifies the roles of a Sport Psychologist. Each role will evolve
throughout the intervention period.
The 6 stage approach - Sport Psychologist and Performer
STAGE 1 - Establish contact and negotiate service delivery
STAGE 2 - Build rapport with performer
STAGE 3 - Develop a profile of the performer
STAGE 4 - Develop individual MTP based on demand
STAGE 5 - Evaluate and monitor
STAGE 6 - Reassessment
These stages are designed to support performers throughout the use of each workshop.
Model of Learning
Education
Performance
Enhancement
Application
The model of learning will follow a pathway that provides a value of education and
performance enhancement through application.
Week Content
Aims and Objectives
Purpose
1
Performance Profile
2
Emotional
Intelligence
Set out purpose of a
performance profile
Introduce the construct of
emotional intelligence
3
Mental Toughness
How a performance profile WILL
aid performance levels
To directly link in how emotional
intelligence can be useful in
regulating and managing emotions
Establish the required
characteristics of mental toughness
in sport and beyond
Identify opportunities for
performers to utilise mental skills
that are useful for their sport
To evaluate and purposefully
reflect on the process and examine
any modifications required
Performers will identify smaller
aspects of their psychological map
to focus on
To engineer practices that enable
performers to empathise with other
players and management
4
5
Develop the notion of what
is required of a mentally
tough performer
Mental Skills
Provide an overview of the
range of mental skills
available to performers
Evaluation/Reflection Assess the impact of sport
psychology
6
Performance Profile
7
Emotional
Intelligence
8
Mental Toughness
Breaking down the profile
into short and sharp
segments
Empathy – its purpose and
design in developing
relationships
Desire – how it fits into the
performance model
Links to Student within Academy and
Academia
Supports in the setting of goals which are
useful for both sport and study
Covers a cross over from sport, study and
everyday life
Make holistic links between performance
both within sport and study
Examine the use of mental skills in a
range of different avenues
Performers become independent
thinkers and are provided opportunities
to feedback to Sport Psychologist
Allows for performers to develop
practices that are useful in a multitude of
scenario’s
Empathy is useful in different walks of
life and therefore will provide
performers opportunities to utilise this
holistically
Identifying desire as a
Desire is a process that could be utilised
characteristic of mental toughness
and overlaps with everyday life skills
and why it is useful for training and including those in sport and study
match situations
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Mental Skills
Goal setting – its importance
in relation to performance
enhancement
Evaluation/Reflection Assess the impact of mental
skills and its use within both
training and match situations
Performance Profile
Focus on achieving a higher
grade – based on initial
performance profile
Emotional
Regulating emotions – how
Intelligence
the process of regulation can
help to support and enhance
performance levels
Mental Toughness
Adversity from setbacks –
why having adversity can
enhance future performance
levels
Mental Skills
Imagery – the art of
developing and creating
images in support of
performance
Evaluation/Reflection Assess the impact of how the
mental side of performance
is instrumental to training
and match situations
Performance Profile
Develop a process to use
more than one skill in
training and match situations
To set SMARTER related targets for
both individual and team
performance
To allow performers an
opportunity to assess where they
are at or wish to be in future
To compare and contrast initial
scores and assess where performers
rate themselves currently
To examine the process of
regulating emotion through
training and match situations
The use of goal setting helps enhance
performance levels for both sport and
study
Evaluation and reflection is a
requirement for all performers in sport
and assessment work
The aspect of achieving higher is like
progression and is something important
to both sport and study
Getting the feel of your own emotions
and that of others can help one
understand. It is therefore instrumental
to everyday life scenario’s
Allow opportunities to relate to
Sport, study and everyday life situations
previous experiences and reflect on provide performers with opportunities to
processes to improve
become more resilient in what they are
attempting to achieve
Through practical scenario’s
Imagery can act as a useful tool in coping
provide performers opportunities to with anxiety and stress. This skills is
develop creation of positive images therefore useful to both sport and study
Enable performer to better
Allow performers to appreciate the
understand how mental aspects of
requirements of positive mental attitudes
performance are vital and necessary for everyday life processes
Integrate a range of skills in
enhancing performance levels
Integration is a useful skill that can
support both sport and study scenario’s
consistently
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Emotional
Intelligence
Managing emotions – how
managing your own and
others emotions can support
performers
Mental Toughness
Attitude – why the correct
attitude is a requirement to
achieve successful outcomes
Mental Skills
Self-Talk – the process in
which one can gain a mental
edge
Evaluation/Reflection Examine how development
of a range of psychological
skills can influence both
performance and other areas
within life situations
Performance Profile
Matching profiles with
colleagues – to assess where
we stand
Emotional
Social skills – engineering
Intelligence
group dynamics and making
all feel as one
Mental Toughness
Resilience – to continue
whatever the circumstances
Mental Skills
Relaxation training – using
the process of keeping a
balanced mind set for
performance
Through managing emotions
performers can identify the
importance of emotional
strength/resilience
Promote the use of positive mental
attitudes within training and
performance
Go through aspects of self-talk and
how it links with regulating
emotion
To make links between sport
psychology and everyday
psychology and examine how both
link in relation to the sport
psychology intervention
Comparison with others is a useful
way to better understand own and
others
The process of social skills and
developing positive cohesion helps
enhance performance levels
Developing correct focus to
promote resilience from within
both training and performance
Maintaining adequate relaxation is
important for optimal performance
levels
Management of emotion is instrumental
in everyday life scenario’s
Through positive attitude performers can
achieve success in both sport and study
Self-talk is a skill that is useful in
allowing performers an opportunity to
achieve
Supports performers in skills related to
both sport and assessed work and
provides opportunities for higher
achievement/grades
Comparing and contrasting is a skill that
is important when processing in both
sport and study
Working together to achieve targets is
useful for both sports teams, but also
working as a team in academia
Continuously training and participation
requires resilience, but so does meeting
deadlines for assessed work
Balancing tasks is easier if the body is
relaxed and focused in a range of
situations
25
Evaluation/Reflection Assess how the practice of
focus within sport can
support coping with pressure
Coping with pressure is important
and dealing with these situations is
required to succeed
26
Performance Profile
Use this opportunity to assess how
far performers have arrived on this
sport psychology journey
27
28
29
30
Reflection on how the
performance profile
supported/enhanced
performer(s)
Emotional
Reflection on how each
Intelligence
aspect of emotional
intelligence supported
performers in both sport and
study
Mental Toughness
Reflection on how
characteristics of mental
toughness are instrumental
for performance levels
Mental Skills
Reflection on why the use of
mental skills should be a
continuous process
Evaluation/Reflection End of season report on how
sport psychology has
enhanced performance
Both sport and study deal with
pressurised situations and performers
need to be able to handle these
appropriately
Performance profiling allows for
targeting within both sport and study
Use this opportunity to assess
emotional intelligence levels and
examine if they have improved
Emotional intelligence is a construct that
can be useful for all situations
Use this opportunity to identify
mental toughness in both training
and performance
Performers can utilise mental toughness
practices within both sport and study
Use this opportunity to examine
how mental skills have contributed
to performance levels
Examine and assess implementation
of programme and make
modifications for future use
Allow performers to discuss how mental
skills have improved and enhanced
performance levels
Supports performers with everyday skills
of thinking and developing