MENTAL TRAINING IN PERFORMANCE

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• MENTAL TRAINING IN PERFORMANCE

Hasmik Vardanyan Department of Applied
Psychology, YSU Tbilisi, Georgia November 19,
2006
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AIM OF THE COURSE

• To inform students about mental training and to
  help them gain skills of psycho-regulation that
  can be used in different fields of human
  activities.
• The course is focused on transformation of
  theoretical knowledge into practical skills.

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Objectives

• to form full idea of mental training and its
  signification,
• to introduce students to techniques of mental
  training and to develop it into practical skills,
• to help students achieve their own mental
  fitness,
• to assist in developing students ability of
  using mental training for increasing
  effectiveness of human activity in different
  fields.

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METHODS OF TEACHING

• Presentation by use of overhead projector
• Delivering of handouts
• Approbation of psycho-regulative techniques, by
  using mats, gymnastic sticks, etc.
• Approbation of mental exercises on fresh air

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

• By the end of the course students
• are expected to have
• Full idea, knowledge on psycho-regulation and
  mental training
• Excellent skills on applying psycho-regulative
  techniques
• Ability to create, adapt and modify
  psycho-regulative techniques according to
  personality and peculiarities of available
  situation

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Factors determining activity efficiency
activity efficiency
Psychological characteristics
Professional capacities
Objective situation
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COURSE TOPICS

• What is mental training and how to achieve
  mental fitness
• Mental training techniques and
  psycho-regulation
• Developing of positive thinking as a
  psycho-regulative technique
• Relaxation and autogenic training
• Psycho-muscular and respiration exercises
• Imagery and imitation exercises
• Stress management
• Psycho-regulation in conflict situation
• Increasing of motivation and activating

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What is mental training and how to achieve mental
fitness?

• State regulation
• Motivating regulation
• Activity process regulation

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MENTAL TRAINING MAIN TECHNIQUES AND
PSYCHO-REGULATION

• Autogenic training, relaxation
• Imagery and imitation exercises
• Psycho-muscular exercises
• Respiration exercises
• Methods of cognitive therapy
• Motivating and activating exercises

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DEVELOPING OF POSITIVE THINKING AS A
PSYCHO-REGULATIVE TECHNIQUE

• DO !
• BE !
• Is better than
• DONT DO !
• DONT BE!

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RELAXATION AND AUTOGENIC TRAINING

• Functions of AT
• Main principles of AT
• Demonstration of AT

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PSYCHO-MUSCULAR AND RESPIRATION EXERCISES

• There are 14 different kinds of psycho-muscular
  exercises, which are the best way to demonstrate
  connection between psychic and somatic.
• Respiration exercises had better be done on
  fresh air.

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IMEGARY AND IMITATION EXERCISES

• Imagery and imitation exercises increase
  probability of the activity efficiency.
• Approbation of Feldenkreis method, using
  plasticine

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Stress management

• Techniques of activating positive recourses to
  get over stresses
• Application of self-regulation techniques for
  achieving mental fitness
• Group training on stress management

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PSYCHO-REGULATION IN CONFLICT SITUATION

• Training on developing communicative skills
• Assertiveness training as one of the most
  effective ways of interpersonal conflict
  resolution

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INCREASING OF MOTIVATION AND ACTIVATING

• Motivation strategy development
• Effective goal setting as a mean of motivation
  increase
• Activating exercises

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TESTING

• The best way to learn something
• is to do it!
• Testing will be based on 2 stages
• Control training, led by each student, and a
  paper on it
• Oral presentation of all the theoretical material

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !!!
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• QUESTIONS?