Finding Your Flow For Optimal Performance

4.7

10 daagse cursus

Finding Your Flow For Optimal Performance

Door Sue Jackson

Wat je zal leren

Finding Your Flow is a 10-session course that focuses on understanding psychological states that are linked with optimal performance and wellbeing. When in flow, you are totally focused on what you are doing. It can be found when performing in domains as diverse as sport, chess, music, or surgery. It can also be found when you are taking part in everyday activities. Flow is an optimal mind state, and when in flow, we both perform our best, and enjoy what we are doing. The good news is that flow is accessible to anyone willing to invest time into developing psychological skills that set the stage for total task involvement. That is what this course will teach you – a psychological skill set that will enhance your potential to find flow in what you are doing. I will be sharing with you key components of flow state, and how you can build your potential to experience this optimal psychological state. There will be guided meditation practices, and opportunity for detailed self-reflection on your psychological experiences – for this, I suggest having a journal with you as you take this flow journey with me. I look forward to sharing Finding Your Flow with you.

Sue Jackson

Brisbane QLD, Australia

As a psychologist with expertise in the optimal psychological state of flow, Dr. Sue Jackson has developed this course to help listeners understand and develop skills to find flow in their daily lives and performance arenas. Sue completed an award-winning PhD on the experience of flow in elite athletes, and went on to co-author the book, Flow in...

Les 1

What Is Flow & Why Does It Matter?

In our first session, I will define, describe, and share a model that helps to understand the flow experience. I will lead a guided meditation that helps you to recall a past flow experience, and we will start what can be an invaluable process of journaling about your experiences and learnings.

Les 2

Flow In Performance

In session 2, I will lead you through further meditative reflection on what it is like to experience flow in your performance domain. I will share illustrations of flow state experience of elite performers in different domains. I will invite you to develop a personal flow cue to use to help you to tap into this special state.

Les 3

How To Experience Flow: Step 1 – Challenge-Skill (CS) Balance

Session 3 will focus on a critical relationship impacting quality of experience in any task: the relationship between perceived challenges and skills. We will explore this CS Balance, as I’ve named this relationship, and I will also invite you to redefine failure. What does failure have to do with flow? Stay tuned and you will find out!

Les 4

How To Experience Flow Step 2 – Clear Goals

A second step, or pre-condition, to experiencing flow is having clear goals. I will describe what flow action goals look like, and invite you to develop personal action goals for your chosen task or activity. I will lead you through a guided imagery practice involving your personal flow action goals.

Les 5

How To Experience Flow Step 3 – Unambiguous Feedback

Step 3 of pre-conditions to flow is experiencing unambiguous feedback. I will define what this means and how to find it in your performances. I will also guide you through a meditation involving touching into metacognitive awareness.

Les 6

Focus For Flow

Flow is defined by total concentration on the task at hand. In this session, we will examine what it is to be fully focused on a task at hand, and I will lead you through a focus meditation practice that uses attention on breathing to experience the one-pointedness of mind that is integral to flow.

Les 7

Don’t Worry About Yourself

One of the most liberating aspects of being in flow is the loss of self-consciousness that occurs during this experience. In this session, I will encourage you to explore your personal challenges with self-worry and self-consciousness. Insight is a gateway to change, and through reflecting on the challenges you experience with being self-conscious, you will be creating a stepping stone to flow.

Les 8

Letting Go Of Needing To Be Control

Being in control is what it is all about – or is it? In this session, I will examine how being in control is a different state to flow state. And how letting go of the need to be in control can free you up to enter a place where there’s no worry about control – and to a place where flow can be found.

Les 9

Experience Something Out Of The Ordinary

Flow is not an ordinary experience. In this session, I will outline some of the key features that set flow apart from our everyday experience. I’ll describe how the full focus of flow can lead to an uncanny absorption, one where we cease to engage in self-reflection, and may even lose track of time. The intrinsically rewarding experience that flow can become a closer reality as your understanding of what it is like to be in flow deepens.

Les 10

Reflecting On Your Flow Journey

In our 10th and final session, I will take you through an in-depth, meditative experience of being in flow. I will invite you to reflect on key personal insights you’ve learnt about flow and share some from a few world-class performers in diverse domains.

Recente Beoordelingen

4.68

Pilgrim

March 19, 2023

Great combination of Big Picture understanding and practical and do-able coaching.

Mégane

January 15, 2022

Thank you for this course ! I am currently in a deep studying session and your course is helping me to either improve daily the way I'm studying or helping me to self reflect on whether my approach on the spot is or isn't productive

Christopher

December 21, 2021

I really loved this course. I have felt flow more frequently (I kayak daily, my cues are: sun, sand, water, boat). Recommend for all those trying to optimize their lives and achieve more in their desired domain.

Lance

February 28, 2021

I enjoyed this. Thank you

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