NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING AS AN EDUCATIONAL-THERAPEUTIC PROGRAMME: TWO CASE STUDIES

Authors

  • S. Archana PhD Research Scholar, Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai, India
  • K. Kannadasan Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Sports Management and Sports Psychology & Sociology, Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejpe.v10i5.5191

Keywords:

Neuro-linguistic Programming, Anchoring, Meta-model, sports resilience, and achievement motivation

Abstract

The neuro-linguistic approach emphasizes man's behaviours as the product of neurological processes within and the experience of the external world outside. When an individual wishes to get into a desired behaviour, Neuro-linguistic Programming helps one to understand one’s current situation and gives a road map to the desired state (1). When NLP is applied in sports, mental skill training, contributes to the new desired behaviour in the form of optimal performance in their respective sports. Objective: This paper aims to examine a tailor-made NLP intervention to reduce low self-determination, poor emotional maturity, and low motivation among two university women volleyball players. Method: This study used a case study approach, and employed NLP techniques such as; collapsing anchoring, and meta-model language patterns, to help two athletes who experienced low self-determination and low motivation and found it emotionally difficult to perform in training and competition, to restructure their dysfunctional thoughts, emotions and memories. Results: The intervention showed promising improvement in helping Participant A to be more resilient and Participant B to be higher in motivation. The results obtained from the interview sessions, and through the quantitative analysis showed that the NLP intervention had successfully helped the participants to cope with dysfunctional thoughts and emotional imbalance and to bounce back. Conclusions: The NLP-based intervention, has helped the players to be more self-determined, experience much Emotional control and maturity, and increase the level of sports achievement motivation and sports resilience.

 

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Author Biographies

  • S. Archana, PhD Research Scholar, Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai, India

    Archana, S., is a PhD research scholar at Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, India. She is a licensed NLP trainer. Her research interests include sports psychology, neuro-linguistic programming, mental health, and the well-being of athletes. Archana works with the renowed volleyball teams as a sports psychologist.

  • K. Kannadasan, Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Sports Management and Sports Psychology & Sociology, Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai, India

    Kannadasan, K., is an Associate Professor of Sports Psychology at Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, India. He is a qualified hockey coach. His research interests include intervention programmes like relaxation techniques, psychological skills training, psychology, and physical activity. Teaching is his passion, and he delivers / imparts the knowledge of sports psychology to athletes, coaches, and other sports personnel.

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2024-01-31

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