Ep 14 – Motivational Interviewing in Sports & Performance Settings
Ep 14 – Motivational Interviewing in Sports & Performance Settings
Glenn Hinds Motivational Interviewing in sport and performance
In Episode 14 of Talking to Change: A Motivational Interviewing Podcast, Glenn Hinds and Sebastian Kaplan welcome Dr Jeff Breckon to explore Motivational Interviewing in sport and performance settings.
Jeff is a Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist with membership in both the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and British Psychological Association. He has provided MI training to over 200 organisations across the UK, Europe and North America and delivered the international MI ‘Training New Trainers’ (TNT) programme in Barcelona (June, 2009) and Krakow (October, 2013). Jeff has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers and presented internationally on the role of MI in sport, exercise and health exploring the role of MI and integrative therapies as well as the impact of MI training on workforce development programmes. He is a co-author on an upcoming Guilford text entitled “Coaching Athletes to be their best: Motivational Interviewing in Sports” due out in November 2019)( https://www.guilford.com/books/Coaching-Athletes-toBe-Their-Best/Rollnick-Fader-Breckon-Moyers/9781462541263). He also has three Labradors that keep him busy! Jeff discusses several topics relating to MI in sport, ranging from the mental health of elite athletes to potential shifts in sporting culture and how MI might contribute. Motivational Interviewing offers coaches, psychologists and other professionals a way of having purposeful conversations while keeping the athlete’s perspective, autonomy and motivation central. The discussion considers athlete-centred practice, ambivalence, whole-system approaches and the challenges of introducing MI into performance environments. These themes connect with Partnership in Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and the wider Spirit of Motivational Interviewing.
In this episode
0:00 – Opening/introduction
3:05 – Jeff’s early MI story
13:00 – Creating a different culture in Sport: Focus on the athlete
21:00 – “Where’s the therapy?”
25:00 – Challenges and opportunities for MI in elite sport
29:00 – Mental health of the athlete
40:00 – Ambivalence for the athlete
44:15 – Whole systems approach
51:00 – Why MI in sport?
1:00:00 – Jeff and colleagues’ recent writing on MI in sport
1:07:12 – End of recording
For any follow-up questions for Jeff, please contact him at J.Breckon@shu.ac.uk
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