The Self Aware Sport Psychologist

Have you noticed that the role of sport psychologist is a little more complex than simply teaching mental skills? Or that the relationship you build with athletes and coaches is critical? And have you found that your work also features complicated,or even uncomfortable emotions - both yours and your clients?

This highly experiential workshop will help you create and maintain more effective and influential working relationships. How? By challenging the belief that we work in a purely objective world, we'll explore how your emotions, experiences and biases play a key part in your interaction with clients.

You’ll find yourself working at a depth that is unusual in sport psychology, but  as a result you will:

• Gain insight into the personal dynamics you bring to your work.
• Discover more about the source and impact of your own emotions.
• Build strategies to improve how you manage yourself and your current client relationships.
• Clarify how your personal needs are met by being a sport psychologist and the impact this has on your effectiveness.
• Establish reflective skills and self awareness that will help keep you on track in the future.

William Winstone is a BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist (Psychology - Scientific Support). A sport psychologist and psychotherapist, William was a tutor on the UK Sport Fast Track Practitioner Programme (2007-09), which develops sport scientists consultancy skills. His sport psychology clients include the British Canoe slalom and Flatwater teams, GB Rowing, Badminton England, The British Real Tennis Academy and a range of individual clients from diverse sports including tennis, sailing and premiership football.

Jonathan Males is a BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist (Psychology - Scientific Support). His involvement in high performance sport spans a decade of competing on the Australian slalom team followed by coaching and sport psychology roles at the last four summer Olympics. Jonathan blends a combination of intellectual rigour, therapeutic depth and pragmatism in his work with elite performers in business and sport . He currently works with individual athletes and supports UK Sport in project roles.