PsychMapping – From Holistic Insight to Season-Long Self-Regulation Plans
Date and time: Wednesday May 27th, morning 10-13 a.m
This workshop introduces a holistic and integrative PsychMapping Perspective to understand athletes in depth and translate insight into concrete training plans. We begin with the PsychMapping model, exploring the main clusters and processes that structure how we analyse athletes’ experiences, contexts and performance. Building on this foundation, we present the revised PsychMapping exercise with a clear step-by-step guide, practical examples and a joint review of diverse summary maps. Participants then learn how to move from these maps to individual case formulations, extracting core hypotheses and selecting potential intervention strategies, before practising how to present case formulations in realistic applied settings. Next, we introduce the PsychMapping Self-Regulation Model, focusing on core self-regulation strategies and situating mental control and psychological skills within a broader range of regulatory options. We then work with the self-regulation assessment grid, covering the ten key aspects of self-regulation training, a 10-point self-assessment format and ways of interpreting different profiles. The workshop closes with the design of season-long self-regulation training plans, helping participants build strategic, developmentally appropriate programmes adapted to different age groups.
Who Is This Workshop For?
Designed for professionals working in and around sport, including:
- Sport psychologists
- Performance and Mental Skills Consultants
- Coach educators and developers
- Sport coaches
- PE teachers and practitioners working in performance and development contexts
About the Workshop Leader :
Born in Germany with a Hungarian background, Alexander Latinjak has lived in Catalonia, Spain, for over 20 years and spent seven years in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. A former tennis player, he graduated in Psychology and earned his PhD in Barcelona. He has held academic positions at the University of Barcelona, the University of Girona, and the University of Suffolk before joining University College Dublin. He is also a visiting researcher at the University of Thessaly, Greece. As an applied sport psychologist, Alexander has worked across a wide range of sports, including tennis, football, handball, swimming, rowing, athletics, and basketball, collaborating with organizations such as Ipswich Town FC and Basketball Girona. Additionally, he serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology and the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Passionate about both research and practice, Alexander is dedicated to enhancing athlete well-being and performance through innovative approaches like M3PAT and PsychMapping.
Loading... 
