RSCF -
Rational Sport Coaching Framework
The Rational sport coaching framework (RSCF) integrates rational theory into coaching for the purpose of supporting performers’ development amidst adversities and setbacks. The four-principle framework targets finding solutions to experience stress in more productive ways in high-pressure climates such as sports, business and management.
Rational Sport
Coaching Framework
The Rational sport coaching framework (RSCF) integrates rational theory into coaching for the purpose of supporting performers’ development amidst adversities and setbacks. The four-principle framework targets finding solutions to experience stress in more productive ways in high-pressure climates such as sports, business and management.
RSCF Fundamental principles
RSCF Fundamental principles
Understand
Understand the ABC of human psychology
Adversities belong to countless environments including sports, business and management. These stressors can increase the prevalence of anxiety, depression or insomnia, detrimental for both performance and health.
During tough conditions emotional, behavioural and physiological responses can be modified through constructive thought patterns or appraisals on emotional information. In the RSCF this takes place by weakening irrational and strengthening rational beliefs, introduced as ‘belief modification’.
Belief modification aims to acknowledge, target, confront and restructure destructive thought patterns for the benefit of experiencing constructive emotional and behavioral responses to adverse conditions. Tools such as the GABC model are used to support the process.
Distinguish
Rationality from irrationality
Successful belief modification relies on the capability to differentiate rationality from irrationality, as understood by the RSCF and more broadly REBT.
To hold “irrational” beliefs is to endorse ideas or positions about the world that are extreme, rigid, dogmatic, and illogical. So while demanding success powerfully communicates intentions and motivations, such demanding also tends to intensify unhealthy negative emotions detrimental for performance. The higher the pressure, the more problematic irrational beliefs become, risking a paradox in which the more success is demanded, the harder it becomes to attain.
The RSCF strengthens healthy and constructive engagement in pressurised situations to elicit adaptive responses to high pressure through rational beliefs. To fulfil this aim, the RSCF challenges confronting often tightly held and frequently used beliefs, which in many cases build performance issues instead of resolving them.
Approach
Life as it is, not as it “should” be
Approaching life as it is by active acknowledgment understands that people (the self included), and the world are naturally and indelibly flawed.
Adversities characterise high-pressure climates, so much time and effort can be wasted on attempts to eliminate them. With extreme personal and emotional investment, it may be difficult to mentally disengage from ruminating on weaknesses, faults or poor performances.
As an antidote, the RSCF guides supportive resources to approach challenges proactively, thus unravelling the tyranny of totalistic and dogmatic negative evaluations on largely uncontrollable entities.
Active acknowledgment prepares the self and conditions as they are to manage situational demands for what they are. The strategy reflects on global evaluation versus acceptance, and works demand- and resource appraisals for the best chance of individuals rising to meet competitive demands instead of caving in.
Establish
Establish a rational performance climate
Performance climates have shaped, reinforced and sustained irrational ideas of demandingness, awfulisation, low frustration tolerance and global evaluation, detrimental for both performance and well-being.
Responsively, the RSCF guides to distinguish, confront and restructure these irrational cornerstones, evaluating the self and surroundings for what they are and rise up to meet demands as they play out.
The establishment principle works the 5R cycle (recognize, reappraise, replace, reinforce, replicate) through the proactive and reactive self with supportive tools.
Encouragement is given to explore the interlink of presented concepts and personal values. Working at this meeting point serves commitment to be a rational leader; to observe the proactive and reactive self, consider reappraisal, strengthen, prosper and explore rational thinking, while inviting others to take part and multiply the effect.
Our proposition is that by applying the fundamental principles on the self and climate, adversity in itself does not automatically cause performers to feel prolonged shame, anxiety, anger or depression anymore, opening significant resources for unrestrained development.
Research Based Advantages on
Fostering rational thinking while diminishing irrational tendencies…
The RSCF provides tremendous value for developing stronger performance long-term. If the RSCF has sparked your interest, explore available services to gain more information on how provided tools can best serve your situation.
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- Mon - Fri: 09:00–18:00
- info.rscfmethod@gmail.com
- +358 440458216
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Physical performance examples
🔸 Enhanced controlling, passing or stealing performance in pressurised circumstances
🔸 Advanced accuracy in putting performance
🔸 Increased long-term maximum scores in archery performance
🔸 Behavioural control amidst adversities
Cognitive performance examples
🔸 Ability to reflect performance-related anxieties
🔸 Effective communication
🔸 Enhanced social support
🔸 Positive feedback under pressure
🔸 Reductions in goal-blocking thought processes
🔸 Capability to channel anger for developing performance