Experience, performance support, resilience

Promoting the understanding of experience as performance support
Supporting performances by fostering resilience processes
Understanding the determinants of resilience by studying the experience of practitioners

 

A hybrid event

With regard to the sanitary conditions, the organizing committee makes every effort to welcome you to Vichy but it will be possible to participate in the congress remotely.

  

Experience is the central theme of the 7th International Congress on Sport Psychology

Two years before the 2024 Olympic Games in France, performance support is essential as is the way science can contribute to it. In this perspective, sport psychology develops different models, methods and devices. It highlights the importance of affective, sensitive, cognitive, cultural and social dimensions in supporting performance.

Being interested in performance support implies questioning the very definition of performance. It is therefore important to consider the multiplicity of performance criteria, and to address performance from a multidisciplinary perspective as well as in relation to its various temporalities/time frames (a competition, a season, a career). In this way, performance includes, but goes beyond, the achievement of an objective within a given time. It refers to the optimisation of individual or collective high-level performance, but also to performance as a health factor, particularly in adapted physical activities. Focusing on performance support is an invitation to consider the environments built around the athletes: the different actors of this support (family, coach, physical and mental trainer...) and their interactions, the devices implemented and their transformative effects, the articulations between the contexts of preparation and competition.

The 7th International Congress of the SFPS will focuse on the place of experience in performance support. Experience, often described as "lived" or "subjective", can be understood as what is meaningful to the subject in a particular moment. It can also refer to the cognitive resources built along the activity and history of the athlete in a specific socio-cultural context. It is then considered as a repertoire of cases, a reference system, background knowledge, dispositions to act, schemas... These different conceptions of experience open up reflections on performance support, on the means for transforming practices or on the personal and professional development of the different protagonists. Indeed, considering "lived experience" leads, for example, to a focus on affects or emotions, but also on reflexivity; considering "sedimented experience" implies focusing on the bases for commitment, the sense of the activity or the knowledge that supports collective activity. Many dimensions need to be thoroughly explored, but another issue is to show how certain devices (mental preparation, deliberate practice, video analysis, etc.) transform them.

Finally, in sport and, more broadly, in social contexts, marked by uncertainty, resilience is a process to be understood in order to foster it. Indeed, individuals, groups and organisations are confronted with disturbances. When these disruptions affect their viability, resilience refers to the way in which they are dealt with and the adaptive transformations that result. Thus, resilience invites us to question the modalities of coping, self-regulation and sensemaking in the face of counter-performance, injury, accident or pathology. The aim is to shed light on the processes underlying individual, collective or organisational resilience, but also to propose principles of support, mechanisms and environments that promote resilience.

Thus, the 7th International Congress of the SFPS aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss issues of experience, performance support and resilience. The aim is to strengthen the understanding of experience in and for performance support, to shed light on resilience processes by studying the experience of practitioners, to support performance by promoting resilience processes. However, the congress remains open to all cutting-edge current work in sport psychology.

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 @Partage ton sport avec Marie José Perec

 

Important dates

21st September: Guest Speakers Announced
21st November: Abstracts Open for Submission
21st January:  Registrations Open for Submission
21st March: Closing Date for Abstract Submissions
21st May: Final Registrations... 
21st June : Welcome to Vichy for conference and World Music day !

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SFPS

French Society of Sport Psychology 

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https://www.sfpsport.fr/ 

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