Integrated Athlete
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Integrated Athlete is an online, self-directed course for athletes seeking support and guidance with their psychological development.
Being an Integrated Athlete involves the pursuit of positive psychological development and maturity.
It is a series of ideas that supports athletes to access their potential and ultimately perform more consistently at a higher level. Furthermore, IA contributes towards a more fulfilling experience of being an athlete.
Integrated Athlete is the outcome of my career as a professional athlete and subsequent career as a coach, leadership consultant, and psychotherapist. It’s what I would have benefitted from as an athlete myself.
It is an interactive programme underpinned by sound psychological theory in which I share an idea before guiding you to explore it and apply it in your own context. I look at six chapters:
CHAPTER ONE: THE STORY
Humans are meaning-making creatures. We interpret in a narrative way. We create stories about our past, present, and future. Your story so far has shaped you, and the story you are living a at the minute continues to do the same. What happens next in your story?
The initial chapter of IA helps you understand your story. I’ll ask you to reflect on significant moments or periods in your life and digest what they meant to you and how they’ve shaped you. You may need to make peace with some parts of your story. Others you’ll want to let go of. There might be some parts still that you’ll want to infuse with life and harness as you move forward.
CHAPTER TWO: THE IDEAL
With an understanding of your story, and therefore beliefs, values, and strengths, we can move onto the creation of an ideal. An image of who or what you would like to be as an athlete. Here we can draw upon your heroes, mentors, and models as inspiration, before settling on an ideal for you that is stretching but within reach, motivating (as opposed to critical and judging), and authentically you.
CHAPTER THREE: THE INNER TEAM
Chapter Three of IA is all about your internal resources. Without diving too much into the theory, you will gain an appreciation of several key schools of psychological thought, particularly their views about people and why we do what we do.
What beliefs do you hold about your own resourcefulness? What different options are available to you at any given moment? What do you think about your own creativity and adaptability? You’ll get the opportunity to explore some of these questions and identify an inner support network.
CHAPTER FOUR: INTEGRATION
You will have noticed from your work in Chapter Three that not all parts of your Inner Team appear to be necessarily working in your favour. There may be conflict between various team members, confusion over their methods or intentions, and misalignment of vision. Chapter Four, Integration, is the cornerstone of IA. It is the process by which all your gifts and talents, as well as all of your darkness, weakness, or parts that you have denied, are fully integrated into your personality. For even in your darkness, lies potential. The aim of this chapter of IA is to view your ‘self’ holistically, with maturity, and with acceptance.
CHAPTER FIVE: THE ENVIRONMENT
Here we move our focus outward, from your internal team and resources to your external environment and options. You are in a relationship with your environment. You interact with it and engage in a sequence of give and take transactions. How consciously do you do this? Which boundaries do you have in place? Chapter Five of IA first supports you to consider what constitutes your environment, and then encourages you to be deliberate regarding your relationship with it.
CHAPTER SIX: THE FUTURE
The final chapter of IA supports you to think through a small but significant question – what do you want in the future? Given your story to date, given the gap that exists between you and your ideal, the resources available to you and the challenges that face you, what do you want in the future? You will leave IA with an orienting vision for yourself for the future, along with the ability to revisit and update this vision as you move forward.
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