How to be a Better Competitor: Training Model and Contextual Essay

by Sharon Fennell

Manuscript, 2014

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Available

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MANUSCRIPT FENNELL, S.

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Publication

A Final Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Diploma Program and Master’s Degree in Process Work, Process Work Institute, Portland, OR, 2014

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http://www.processwork.org/files/Finalprojects/Fennell_S_January_2014.pdf

Abstract
This educational project aims to offer a training program for the athletes who wish to better support themselves in their competition endeavors. The emotional world of the athlete and their mental approach to competition is of key importance to their success and well-being. As a result, this project focuses on training them to work with disturbances that arise during competition, and teaches them how to access a more optimal competition mindset. Process Work and sports psychology are brought together in the form of an educational project, with the core goal of this training being that through the application of these Process Work inner work modules, the athlete is able to self-facilitate access to a more optimal competition mindset, real-time, during a match. The key innovation to sports psychology is the main Process Work concept of seeing obstacles and disturbances as a part of oneself, and working with the opportunities that these disturbances present to enhance performance. I designed the training modules based on the findings in current sport psychology and Process Work, the interviews that I conducted with 6 professional athletes, and my own experiences as a professional athlete. The end goal of this training model is to conduct training workshops for athletes, teaching techniques that work with a range of issues and challenges which arise within the competition arena. While addressing a number of different areas under the performance psychology banner, the central focus of the training is on improving performance.

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