Category: Live online events

Developing consultancy skills is a key aspect of the BASES SEPAR. This webinar is aimed at prospective/current supervisees and supervisors and covers the complex nature of initial/intake interviews with athletes.

Target and evidence the SEPAR consultancy competencies (3.3.4)
Describe various ways of approaching initial/intake interviews with athletes
Evaluate the range of information that may be gathered prior to the first meeting
Discuss interactions between content, process and relationships in early athlete relationships
Identify steps for basic planning and constructing flexible agendas in first meetings
Consider important environmental factors when meeting athletes

The purpose of this webinar will be to share and discuss six sports injury narratives that have been identified from a longitudinal research study within elite sport (Everard et al., 2021, 2023). These six narratives have been converted into a video format so that they are accessible and transferable to multiple stakeholders. By discussing these six storylines within a pedagogical setting, the aim is to enhance understandings of the multiple ways in which athletes may experience injury, and thus expand the practical lens of practitioners working with injured athletes. For example, our research has highlighted how by equipping practitioners with diverse injury narratives, it can sensitize them to rhetoric of an injured athletes and enable them to better relate to and empathize with diverse injury experiences (Everard et al., 2024). In doing so, it can help create a more harmonious working relationship by enhancing interpersonal communication and promoting greater shared understandings. Moreover, equipping practitioners with diverse injury narratives can help raise awareness of the dangers embedded within certain storylines and enable them to offer athletes alternative narrative types if needed (Smith & Sparkes, 2009). Throughout the webinar, we will draw upon our latest research alongside real-world examples regarding the practical application of these sport injury narratives into professional practice, with the goal of highlighting how these narratives could be used in applied sport and exercise psychology practice and with other individuals who support injured athletes and exercisers.

Body measures underpin life as we know it; from the trivial: the shape of the chair you’re sat on, the clothes you are wearing and the dimension of your devices, to the critical: the design of your seat belt, your qualification for medical treatments and the dosages of those treatment. In sport we typically place a lot of emphasis on the accuracy of these measures, however this has not translated into health – yet. This presentation explores the translation of body measurement expertise from sport to health, with a focus on childhood obesity