Mental training
Professional advice for the general public, exercisers and elite.
No matter what kind of athlete you are, no matter what you train, how much you train, or what your training goals are, psychology is always present. You can see it as a sharp and rock-solid focus or as a damaged and battered self-confidence. It can show itself as budding and pumping motivation or as a leaky sieve of energy when adversity piles up. Some paint it in images of positive thinking, others in the face of their fears.
Beyond performance: the joy and passion behind success in sports
Sports psychology is about our thoughts, feelings, behaviors and experiences in sports. Working with sports psychology counseling means working to develop your ability to perform in a given situation, often through better health. The counseling can, for example, be about the importance of motivation for feeling and performing at your best, i.e. is there a connection between success and the driving forces of joy, curiosity and passion. The answer is Yes! So what drives you? How do you connect joy, curiosity and passion to your challenges? And how do you handle feelings of demands and pressure?
The Motivation Index: Mapping Your Internal and External Drivers for Success
The Motivation Index is an instrument that measures the balance between internal and external drivers linked to a specific activity. By answering 24 questions about why you do the current activity, a unique profile is created. In four steps (current state, desired state, process and measurement) you can then work on creating conditions for internal drivers and monitor progress.
Working with sports psychology counseling means working on developing your ability to perform in a given situation, often through better health. The counseling can be about the importance of motivation for feeling and performing at your best, i.e. Is there a connection between success and the driving forces of joy, curiosity and passion. The answer is yes! So what drives you? How do you connect joy, curiosity and passion to your challenges? And how do you handle feelings of demand and pressure?
Our services in sports and performance psychology consulting
Why do you take on the challenges you do? Could there be a connection between what our driving forces look like and how we think we feel and perform? In performance psychology, we often talk about extrinsic and intrinsic motivations. Extrinsic motivations are often about rewards, we do something to get something else. Intrinsic motivations are more about curiosity and joy. The activity itself is then the goal.
Research has shown that people who have a Motivation Index where intrinsic and extrinsic motivations are in balance are more resilient, feel better, are more creative and perform better. What are your intrinsic motivations? How do you connect joy and desire to your challenges?
The Motivation Index is an instrument that measures the balance between internal and external drivers linked to a specific activity. By answering 24 questions about why you do the current activity, a unique profile is created. In four steps, you can then work on creating conditions for internal drivers and monitoring progress, both in groups and individuals.
Arrangement with three coaching meetings plus three MotivationIndex measurements.
Motivation Index 1 before the first meeting.
- First meeting – Focus on current and desired state. What does the Motivation Index show? How do we put it into the individual's unique context? What goals for the desired state are developed based on the current situation?
- Second meeting – Focus on the process. How do we enable a move from the current state to the desired state? How do we tie meaningfulness for the individual to the process? We create an action plan and follow-up plan. Motivation Index 2 – Feedback via email with a short reflection. How does the process work?
- Third meeting – Before this meeting, Motivation Index 3. What shifts do we see? In motivation? In the change process? How and why were they possible? Not possible? More reflections on the development and the process? How do we work further?
Between the first and second meeting, no more than a week should pass. Between meeting 2 and 3, up to 4 months can pass. Between meeting 2 and 3, Motivation Index 2 is done. Feedback is done via email with a short reflection. Another opportunity for a short reflection on the process can be done before meeting 3.
Price: 3900: -
About how motivation affects our conditions for health, creativity and performance. What is motivation? How can we measure motivation? And how can we work to change motivation?
Successful athletes often describe passion for their sport as an important driving force. Enjoying the journey to the goal is just as (or almost!) as important as the goal itself. In sports psychology, we call this intrinsic motivation. These intrinsic motivations have been shown in numerous studies to be not only important for our health but also for our creativity and performance.
However, being an athlete and being driven solely by internal motivations is not realistic. External motives about demands, prizes and money are of course constantly reminding us and also have great power. However, it is always important to feel good and perform well to have a balance to the internal motives and the sense of control – to be able to feel joy and desire on the way to the goal.
What driving forces are present in you? How do you create conditions for internal motivation? How do you tie joy and curiosity to your challenges?
- Time required 90 minutes
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People who are not engaged in what they do perform worse, call in sick more often and are less creative. For a long time, motivation has been the same as reward in the form of, for example, money or punishment in the form of threats, so-called extrinsic motivation. But are humans just rational and profit-hungry robots or do we also weigh emotional and individual perspectives in our motivations? And what role does the type of motivation play in such cases for health, performance and creativity?
Being driven by intrinsic motivation means finding meaning in the activity itself. Being driven by intrinsic motivation is being driven by joy, passion and curiosity. Not instead of extrinsic motivation but together with them. A balance between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation not only creates a more pleasant workplace, it also creates better health, more creativity and better performance in individuals and groups.
What driving forces are prevalent in your workplace? How do you create conditions for more intrinsic motivation? How do you tie joy and curiosity to your challenges?
- Time required 90 minutes
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Brainstorm your ideas and thoughts about performance, motivation, stress and mental strength with professionally trained staff.
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Voice of Jonas
Aktivitus' expert in sports and performance psychology is Jonas Wig. Jonas has a Master's degree in Sports Psychology and is a trained conversational therapist. Jonas works based on something called the Motivation Index.
Jonas has taught me a lot and he is very good. He has also given me 2 small “lectures” via Skype that have been really interesting. He reminds me a bit of Mattias in his way of describing how things are connected, by which I mean that he explains things and falls into the “tests and scientific studies show that…” line a bit. I like that, because then you get the feeling that he actually has evidence for what he says. He also has a very good way of “measuring” what he comes up with with small surveys that you fill out and then have as a basis for discussion. When you then ask questions about what these contain, he has good answers, no vague things but concrete answers. In Jonas’s case, I have to say that I gain trust in him and the feeling is that the time I spend and pay for is well invested. I can’t help but HIGHLY recommend Jonas to you.
Johan, the exercise triathlete
What drive?!
Successful athletes often describe passion for sport as an important driving force. Enjoying the journey towards the goal is just as (or at least almost!) important as the goal itself. In sports psychology, we call this intrinsic motivation. These intrinsic motivations have strong support in research to show a connection to mental health, creativity and endurance. However, being an athlete and being driven solely by intrinsic motivations is not realistic. External motivations about demands, prizes and money are of course constantly present and also have great power. However, it is always important to feel good and perform well to have a balance to the intrinsic motivations and the sense of control – to be able to feel passion and desire on the way to the goal.
Jonas Wig, sports psychology advisor Aktivitus Testklinik