Well-being for Performance
Performance sport and well-being are inextricably linked.
If you take a basic positive psychology model, like PERMAH+, it shows that people are at their best when they have/are:
Positive emotions
An environment that aligns with, and enables them
A sense of meaning & purpose
Positive, healthy relationships
Accomplishing (performing) and contributing to something
Positive physical, mental and emotional health.
A person’s experience of sport impacts all of these things, AND, a person’s experience of these things in life impacts how they show up to sport.
Research Based & Practice Driven
The 8 constructs of well-being all impact how a person feels and functions.
If we feel good and function well, we can perform optimally and for longer. This takes purposeful action & high self-awareness.
Life & sport will always throw challenges, so we need to develop the toolkit and awareness to flex and adapt to the things that come.
Individuals & teams who proactively build the skillsets for high wellbeing, have better self-regulation, resilience, readiness and are able, when they do experience adversity, to minimise it’s impact and bounce back quicker.
Constructs of Well-being
Chunking wellbeing into 8 areas to help coaches and leadership understand different ways to positively influence their sporting programmes & environments. 8 Constructs include:
Physical well-being
Mental & Emotional Well-being
Cultural Well-being
Social Well-being (relationships matter)
Financial Well-being
Spiritual & Creative Well-being
Career
Self - identity, passions, purpose, learning, growth
* There are female-specific considerations within each of the above constructs to enable sports to create bespoke support for maximising female athletes.
Enabling Flourishing
Proactively & purposefully working towards having high well-being in staff and athletes that enables:
Eudaimonia - flourishing as a whole person & having a meaningful life - inside sport and beyond it
Feeling good (physically, mentally, emotionally)
Functioning well (physically, mentally, emotionally)
Pursuing potential (on the sporting field and in life)
Values Alignment (life choices & with sport)