Coach Education: When Athlete Identity Falls Apart

Acceptance and Commitment Training builds the skill of distinguishing between the self-as-content (Self-stories), the self-as-process (Self-Story-Teller), and self-as-context (Where the story is told). Athletes and coaches can hook on the story as identity with catastrophic outcomes. I talk about how to notice the stories we tell ourselves so we can effectively navigate identity disrupting experiences such as injury or loss.