Title: Resilience in elite level sport
1Resilience in elite level sport
- Professor Jim McKenna
- Carnegie Faculty for Sport and Education, Leeds
Metropolitan University - j.mckenna_at_leedsmet.ac.uk
2What we know about motivationmotive-action x
energy
- People motivate themselves
- Our energy flows from our strengths and values
- Talking helps others to tap into our energies
- Some Talking blocks or drains others energy
- Organisations succeed or fail, one conversation
at a time - People do NOT respond to reality, onlyto their
PERCEPTION of reality
3Resilience Links to Broaden and Build theory
of positive emotions (Frederickson 1998, 2001)
- The label given to bounce-back-ability coping
and personal growth (bounce-beyond-ability) - The process or capacity for successful
adaptation in conditions normally associated with
psychological dysfunction and low competence
(Fonagy et al., 1994) - Growth perspective Links to notions of
capability and competence - Transfer of adaptations
Dr. Steve Cobley
John Allan
Nick Wattie
Arabella Ashfield
Jon Finn
4The aim is NOT to make the caterpillar a better
caterpillar.
5 but to turn it into a beautiful butterfly
6PYD model of change
7Hardship happens (grit) Resilience (the pearl)
might result
8Resilience results from combining the power of
the positive with the negative
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9Sequences of coping
- Emotion-focused coping
- Problem-focused coping (PFC)
- Moving to PFC is supported by Meaning-focused
coping
10The ordinary magic of becoming resilientA
socially constructed notion
11Build their resolveSystems must create
realistic, yet challenging, tests
12Perfect is incompleteProblem-free is not prepared
13Learning from Lizzies story
- Perfect is incomplete (brings entitlement), so
recruit from groups with adversity in their
background - The severity of adversity you can handle
- Depends on the qualities of
- your system
- your people
14Responding to Adversity
15Resilience
- More than recovery
- Only 8-20 exposed convert to PTSD
- A common (grounded?) experience
- Many pathways (a process AND an outcome)
- Hardiness
- Self-enhancement
- Repressive coping
- Positive emotion and laughter
16And it gets more complicated.Problemsfrom
within and beyond sportthey coincidelast for
different (often long) periods
17What makes junior to senior career transitions
difficult?
The development career transition model Wylleman
and Lavallee (2003) See also Finn and McKenna
(2010) IJSSC
18What is RESILIENCE ?
Score (1-10) 1 not very good at this, 10
very good at this ------- I am compassionate
and contribute to society ------- I am
empathetic ------- I am stress hardy ------- I
establish realistic goals and expectations -------
I feel in control of my life ------- I feel
special (not self-centred) and I help others to
feel the same ------- I learn from both success
and failure ------- I live responsibly based on
considered values ------- I use effective
communication and interpersonal skills ------- I
use solid problem-solving and decision-making
skills
19Use powerful aids for balanceRelying on money
undermines personal solidarity
20Some behaviours undermine othersWeapons of self
destruction
21Sport/ Life eventsGrowth opportunities
System
Person
22Building Resilience Links to Super-compensation
in training?
Time
23Options for Building Resilience Growth
Challenge Support.
Time
24Find the bigger meaning